David P. Gilmartin

Nation and Region in the Post-Partition Remaking of the Indus River Basin

Gilmartin, D. (2025, September 4). Critical Pakistan Studies.

The Indus River

Voting and the Visual: Electoral Symbols, Legal Discourse, and the Sovereign People

Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared.

[Review of Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared, by P. Duara & E. J. Perry]. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 79(4), 1076–1077.

Introduction

Law and Politics: A Brief History

In S. Y. Quraishi (Ed.), The Great March of Democracy: Seven Decades of India’s Elections (pp. 29–38). Delhi: Penguin.

South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power

Time and the Sovereignty of the People

Voting, Religion, and the People’s Sovereignty in Late Colonial India

4. IMPERIAL SOVEREIGNTY IN MUGHAL AND BRITISH FORMS

GILMARTIN, D. A. V. I. D. (2017, March 1). History and Theory, Vol. 56, pp. 80–88.

Nationalism, Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism - and Empire

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOUTH ASIA AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, 37(2), 185–189.

The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956

[Review of The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956, by J. Slight]. JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, 58(4), 769–770.

Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History

Berkeley: University of California Press.

Rethinking the Public through the Lens of Sovereignty

Gilmartin, D. (2015, July 3). South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 38, pp. 371–386.

The Historiography of India's Partition: Between Civilization and Modernity

Gilmartin, D. (2015, February 1). The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 74, pp. 23–41.

The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics. By Ayesha Jalal. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 435 pp. $35.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780674052895).

[Review of The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, by A. Jalal]. The Journal of Asian Studies, 74(4), 1056–1057.

Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan

New Delhi: Yoda Press.

The paradox of patronage and the people’s sovereignty

Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History

In R. M. Eaton, M. D. Faruqui, D. Gilmartin, & S. Kumar (Eds.), Cambridge University Press eBooks.

Muslim Voices: Community and the Self in South Asia

New Delhi: Yoda Press.

Environmental History, Biradari, and the Making of Pakistani Punjab

Introduction to “Election Law in India”

Introduction to “Election Law in India.” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 11(2), 136–148.

Nile Green . Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915 . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xvi, 327. $90.00.

[Review of Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915, by N. Green]. The American Historical Review, 117(2), 508–509.

Towards a Global History of Voting: Sovereignty, the Diffusion of Ideas, and the Enchanted Individual

Religions, 3(2), 407–423.

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

[Review of Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, by A. Albinia]. HISTORIAN, 73(4), 857–858.

Secularism and the State in Pakistan introduction

Modern Asian Studies, 45(3), 491–499.

31. Muslim League Appeals to the Voters of Punjab for Support of Pakistan

In Islam in South Asia in Practice (pp. 409–423).

Afterword: Living the Tensions of the State, the Nation, and Everyday Life

In N. Khan (Ed.), Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan (pp. 521–530). London: Routledge.

Art on Trial: Civilization and Religion in the Persona and Painting of M. F. Husain

In Barefoot across the Nation: M. F. Husain and the Idea of India (pp. 54–74). London: Routledge.

Rule of Law, Rule of Life: Caste, Democracy, and the Courts in India

Gilmartin, D. (2010, April 1). The American Historical Review, Vol. 115, pp. 406–427.

Sufism, Exemplary Lives, and Social Science in Pakistan

In C. W. Ernst & R. C. Martin (Eds.), Contemporary Islam Between Theory and Practice (pp. 159–178). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law.

[Review of Empire, Identity, and India: Peasants, Political Economy and Law, by P. Robb]. HISTORIAN, 71(1), 142–144.

One day’s sultan

Gilmartin, D. (2009, May 1). Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 43, pp. 247–284.

State, Sovereignty, and the People: A Comparison of the “Rule of Law” in China and India

Ocko, J., & Gilmartin, D. (2009, January 27). The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 68, pp. 55–100.

The Strange Career of the Rule of Law in the Punjab

Pakistan Vision, 10, 2, 1–21.

Expanding frontiers in South Asian and world history essays in honour of John F Richards: Introduction

Modern Asian Studies, 43(1), 1–3.

Election Law and the ‘People’ in Colonial and Postcolonial India

In R. Mazumdar, A. Sartori, & D. Chakrabarty (Eds.), Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Imperial Rivers: Irrigation and British Visions of Empire

In D. Kennedy & D. Ghosh (Eds.), Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (pp. 76–103). New Delhi: Orient Longman.

A Networked Civilization?

In B. Lawrence (Ed.), Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop (pp. 51–68). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Irrigation and the Baloch Frontier

In M. Haidar (Ed.), Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders (pp. 331–389). New Delhi: Manohar.

Migration and Modernity: The State, the Punjabi Village, and the Settling of the Canal Colonies

In I. Talbot & S. Thandi (Eds.), People On The Move: Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration (pp. 3–20). Karachi: Oxford University Press.

Appropriating the Punjabi Folk: Gender and Other Dichotomies in Colonial and Postcolonial Folk Studies

In C. Kennedy, K. McNeil, C. Ernst, & D. Gilmartin (Eds.), Pakistan at the Millennium. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

Cattle, crime and colonialism: Property as negotiation in north India

Gilmartin, D. (2003, January 1). The Indian Economic & Social History Review, Vol. 40, pp. 33–56.

Water and Waste: Nature, Productivity and Colonialism in the Indus Basin

Economic and Political Weekly, 38(48), 5057–5065.

Self and sovereignty: Individual and community in South Asian Islam since 1850

[Review of Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850, by A. Jalal]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 39(4), 458–460.

The partitions of memory: The afterlife of the division of India

[Review of The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India, by S. Kaul]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 39(1), 115–117.

Gender, slavery and law in colonial India

[Review of Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India, by I. Chatterjee]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 38(2), 214–216.

Jinnah, Parkistan and Islamic identity: The search for Saladin

[Review of Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, by A. S. Ahmed]. Journal of Asian Studies, 60(1), 247–249.

The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empires, 1415-1980

[Review of The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980, by D. B. Abernethy]. International History Review, 23(4), 889–891.

Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking religious identities in Islamicate South Asia

Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.

Irrigation, agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887-1947

[Review of Irrigation, Agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887-1947, by M. M. Islam]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 37(4), 486–488.

The Irrigating Public: The State and Local Management in Colonial Irrigation

In S. T. Madsen (Ed.), State, Society and the Environment in South Asia (pp. 236–265). London: Curzon Press.

The sacred and the secular: Bengal Muslim discourses, 1871-1977.

[Review of he Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses, 1871-1977, by T. M. Murshid]. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 104(1), 167–167.

A Magnificent Gift: Muslim Nationalism and the Election Process in Colonial Punjab

GILMARTIN, D. A. V. I. D. (1998, July 1). Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 40, pp. 415–436.

Partition, Pakistan, and South Asian History: In Search of a Narrative

Gilmartin, D. (1998, November 1). The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 57, pp. 1068–1095.

Rethinking tradition in modern Islamic thought

[Review of Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought, by D. Brown]. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 35(2), 211–212.

Devotional Islam and politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and his movement, 1870-1920.

[Review of Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870–1920, by U. Sanyal]. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 56(4), 1142–1143.

Models of the Hydraulic Environment: Colonial Irrigation, State Power and Community in the Indus Basin

In D. Arnold & R. Guha (Eds.), Nature, Culture and Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia (pp. 210–236). Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Biraderi and Bureaucracy: The Politics of Muslim Kinship Solidarity in 20th Century Punjab

International Journal of Punjab Studies, 1, 1, 1–29.

Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin

The Journal of Asian Studies, 53(4), 1127–1149.

Democracy, nationalism and the public: A speculation on colonial Muslim politics

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 14(1), 123–140.

‘Divine Displeasure’ and Muslim Elections: The Shaping of Community in Twentieth-Century Punjab

Customary Law and Shari'at in British Punjab

In K. Ewing (Ed.), Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam (pp. 43–62). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan

Berkeley: University of California Press.

The Shahidganj Mosque Incident: A Prelude to Pakistan

In I. M. Lapidus & E. Burke III (Eds.), Islam, Politics, and Social Movements (pp. 146–168). Berkeley: University of California Press.

9. Shrines, Succession, and Sources of Moral Authority

In Moral Conduct and Authority (pp. 221–240).

Women and Politics in 20th Century Punjab

In G. Minault (Ed.), The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan (pp. 251–273). Columbia, Mo: South Asia Books.

Religious Leadership and the Pakistan Movement in the Punjab

Modern Asian Studies, 13(3), 485–517.