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"Urban Spaces and Dilemmas of Perception in the Ancient Indian Subcontinent." In Religion and Urbanity Online, edited by Susanne Rau and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024.
"‘Between the devil and the Bay of Bengal’: the Ford Foundation and the politics of planning in post-Independence Calcutta." Planning Perspectives 36, no. 5 (2021): 1025-1051.
"The world’s first slum improvement programme: Calcutta’s bustees, 1876–1910." Planning Perspectives 35 (2020): 321-344.
"ON BLOOD, POWER, AND PUBLIC INTEREST: THE CONCEALMENT OF HINDU SACRIFICIAL RITES UNDER INDIAN LAW." Journal of Law and Religion 34, no. 2 (2019): 165-182.
"B-School Religion: Hindu Theology in the Neo-Liberal Cityscape." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42, no. 6 (2019): 1046-1061.
"Revealing Layers: Sarnath Banerjee’s The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2019): 1-16.
"Community and Neighbourhood in a Colonial City: Calcutta’s para." South Asia Research 38, no. 1 (2018): 40-56.
"Photographs of People, Monument for a City." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 41, no. 3 (2018): 658-680.
"A postcolonial iconi-city: Re-reading Uttam Kumar’s cinema as metropolar melodrama." South Asian History and Culture 8 (2017): 171-185.
"The Adi Ganga: A Forgotten River in Bengal." Economic and Political Weekly 51, no. 8 (2016).
"From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India." L’Espace Politique (2016).
"Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 3 (2016): 465-482.
"Cities of power and protest: spatial legibility and the colonial state in early twentieth-century India." International Journal of Urban Sciences 19, no. 1 (2015): 40-52.
"Purifying the river: Pollution and purity of water in colonial Calcutta." Studies in History 31, no. 2 (2015).
"Crafts and industry in early films of British India: Contrasting album and process films." Early Popular Visual Culture 12 (2014): 342-356.
"Calcutta's Hand–Pulled Rickshaws: Cultural Politics and Place Making in a Globalizing City." Geographical Review 102, no. 4 (2012): 407-426.
"Dias-para: neighbourhood, memory and the city." South Asian Diaspora 4, no. 1 (2012): 5-23.
The city vulnerable:
new town planning, informality and the geography of disaster in Kolkata, India. Theses. Cornell University, 2011.
"Urban Ruin: James Baillie Fraser's Representation of the Black Hole Memorial of Calcutta." Third Text 25, no. 6 (2011): 751-762.
"Contesting refugeehood: squatting as survival in post-partition Calcutta." Social Identities 15, no. 1 (2009): 67-84.
The Water and Sanitation Scenario in Indian Metropolitan Cities: Resources and Management in Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Mumbai. OP 6. New Delhi: Centre de Sciences Humaines, 2009.
"Ambivalent Heritage: Between Affect and Ideology in a Colonial Cemetery." Journal of Material Culture 11, no. 3 (2006): 339-363.
"Economics of Conservation of Built Heritage A CV Study of Some Heritage Sites of Calcutta." Indian Economic Review 40 (2005): 221-243.
"'Goods, Chattels and Sundry Items': Constructing 19th-Century Anglo-Indian Domestic Life." Journal of Material Culture 7, no. 3 (2002): 243-271.
Planting, Planning and Design: A comparative study of English colonial cities founded in India, North America, and the Caribbean, 1660-1710. Theses. State University of New York at Binghamton, 2001.
"Paras, Palaces, Pathogens: frameworks for the growth of Calcutta, 1800-1850." City Society 12, no. 1 (2000): 19-54.
Paupers and Patrons : Class Gender and Regime Politics in Calcutta’s rural urban transition. Theses. University of California, Berkeley, 1999.