- “The Frying Pan or the Fire? Endangered Identities, Gendered Institutions and Women’s Survival,” co-author in Urvashi Butalia and Tanika Sarkar eds., Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1995.
- “Rape and the Construction of Communal Identity: The Rameeza Bee Case”, in Kumari Jayawardena and Malathi De Alwis [eds]., Embodied Violence, New Delhi: Kali for Women and London: Zed Press, 1996.
- “Looking at Ourselves: The Women’s Movement in Hyderabad,” in M.Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. ed. Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. Co-author.
- “Turning the Wheels of History” [co-author]. Mahilavaranam/Womanscape, Hyderabad: Asmita, 2000.
- “Caste,” Routledge International Encyclopedia on Women, NY & London, 2001.
- “Tracing Migration, Gender, Culture and Politics on the Indian Map”, Identity, Locality and Globalization: Experiences of India and Indonesia, New Delhi: Indian Council of Social Science Research, 2001.
- “South India” in Women and Governance in South Asia: Reimagining the State, edited by Yasmin Tambiah, Colombo: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2002, pp. 345-420.
- “A Ravished Justice: Half a Century of Judicial Discourse on Rape,” in De-Eroticizing Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power, Calcutta: Stree, 2002.
- “Caste and Gender,” in Caste edited by Anupama Rao, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2003. Rpt.
- “Voices of Dissent: Gender and Changing Social Values in Hinduism” in Hinduism in Modern Times edited by Robin Rinehart, ABC-CLIO, 2004.
- “Caste, the Academy and Dalit Women,” in Caste, Race and Discrimination: Discourses in International Context, edited by Sukhadeo Thorat and Umakant, New Delhi: Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and Rawat Publications, 2004.
- “Defining Citizenship: Issues in Women’s Leadership in Andhra Pradesh”, in In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India edited by Zoya Hasan & Ritu Menon Delhi: OUP, 2005.
- “Empowerment and Social Division: Issues in Women’s Leadership in Andhra Pradesh”, in The Diversity of Muslim Women’s Lives in India edited by Zoya Hasan & Ritu Menon, New Brunswick, New Jersey & London: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
- “Citizenship and its Discontents: A political history of women in Andhra,” Co– Author, in The History Of Science, Philosophy And Culture in Indian Civilisation, sponsored by The Centre for Civilisations, New Delhi. General Editor: D. P. Chattopadhyaya, IX: 3, Women of India: Colonial and Post-colonial Periods, Editor: Bharati Ray, Sage Publications, New Delhi: 2005.
- “Introduction”, The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women’s Lived Realities, editor, New Delhi: Women Unlimited & Kali for Women, Delhi, 2005.
- “A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women”, in Nira Yuval Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike Vieten, eds., The Situated Politics of Belonging, London: Sage, 2006.
- “Situating Contemporary Politics of Belonging” in Nira Yuval Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike Vieten, eds., The Situated Politics of Belonging, London: Sage, 2006. Co-author.
- “Negotiating Peace: Feminist Reflections”, in Paula Banerjee ed. Women’s Movements for Peace. South Asian Peace Studies Series, Volume III. New Delhi: Sage, 2008. Co-author and Sectional Editor
- “Caste and Race: Questions of Identity and Exclusion”, in Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini eds. Are Other Worlds Possible? Interrogating Empires, vol. 3, New Delhi: Zubaan Books, 2006.
- “Sexual Assault and the Law”, in Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir Singh ed., Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India, New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
- “The Contexts of Criminology: A Brief Re-statement” in Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir Singh ed., Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India, New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
- “Feminist Deliberative Politics in India”, in Amrita Basu, ed. Women’s Movements in a Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms, Westview Press, 2009.
- “A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women” in Raka Ray ed. Handbook of Gender. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- “Disability, Constitutional Communications and the Interrogation of Normativity”, in Ranabir Samaddar and Suhit Sen, ed. Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India, New Delhi: Routledge, 2012.
- “Disability-based Discrimination in India,” in Marcia Rioux, Paula C. Pinto and Gillian Parekh, eds. Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change: Building Power out of Evidence. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2015, pp. 139-156.
- “Violence and its Habitations in India” in Kalpana Kannabiran, ed. Violence Studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- “Disablement in Higher Education: Mapping Barriers and Access in Indian Universities” in India Social Development Report 2016: Disability Rights Perspectives. Kalpana Kannabiran and Asha Hans, eds. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Co-author.
- “Disabilities And Higher Education: An Investigation Of University Spaces In Select State And Central Universities In India.” India Higher Education Report, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi. 2017. Co-author.
- “‘To bounce like a ball that has been hit’: Feminist Explorations of the Family” in Re-presenting Feminist Methodologies: Interdisciplinary Explorations, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran and Padmini Swaminathan, New Delhi: Routledge, 2017.
- “Introduction” in Re-presenting Feminist Methodologies: Interdisciplinary Explorations, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran and Padmini Swaminathan, New Delhi: Routledge, 2017. Co-author.
- “Introduction”, in Kalpana Kannabiran and Asha Hans ed. India Social Development Report 2016. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Co-author.
- “Violence against Women in Telangana: Incidence and Institutional Mechanisms for Redress,” in Telangana Social Development Report 2018: Gender, Access and Well Being, Hyderabad: Council for Social Development, 2018.
- “Feminist Activism, Violence in the Family, and Law Reform in India: A Three Decadal History”, in Mehnaz Afkhami, Yakin Erturk, Ann Elizabeth Mayer eds.Feminist Advocacy,Family Law and Violence against Women: International Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge. 2018.
- “Feminist Futures and Ideas of Justice for India,” in Aakash Singh Rathore and Ashis Nandy eds. 2019. Vision for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
- “Constitutional Morality and the Imagination of Justice,” in Badri Narayan and KN Bhatt eds. 2019. Mapping Social Gaze: A Discourse on Culture and Democracy (Govind Ballabh Pant Memorial Lecture Series- I). New Delhi: Vani Book Company, pp. 13-38.
- “Commuting Between Academy and Social Movements: Reflections of an Insurgent Feminist” in Invisible Institutionalisms: Collective Reflections on the Shadows of Legal Globalisation edited by Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Sara Dezalay (London: Hart Publications/Bloomsbury).
- Traumascapes and an Arc of Resistance: #MeToo in India”, in David Oppenheimer and Ann Noel, eds. Globalization of the #MeToo Movement. 2019. Co-authored with Ramya K. Tella.
- Constitutional Geographies and Cartographies of Impunity: Human Rights and Adivasis/Tribes in India’ in Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, Ganesh Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis (eds). New Delhi: Routledge. 2020.
- “Gazing through the Broken Mirror: The Life and Times of Kolleru,” Foreword to Akkineni Kutumba Rao, Softly Dies a Lake. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2020.
- “Juridicalising Justice? Covid-19, Citizenship Claims, And Courts” in Migration, Workers and Fundamental Freedoms: Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India. New Delhi: Routledge, 2021 (co-editor with Asha Hans, Manoranjan Mohanty and Pushpendra) (co-author Sreekar Aechuri).
- “Insurgent Realisms and Ideas of Justice in India: Imagining The ‘Corruption Complex’ Through Law and Literature,” in Discourses on Corruption: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives. Co-edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Bettina Hollstein, Florian Hoffmann, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2021.
Forthcoming
- “Mitigating Disciplinary Distances’: Upendra Baxi’s Engagements with the Sociology of Indian Law. In Kalpana Kannabiran ed. Law, Society and Justice: Collected Works of Upendra Baxi (Volume 3: Law and Society). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2021.
- “Frontiers of Law and Society in India: Interview with Upendra Baxi.” In Kalpana Kannabiran ed. Law, Society and Justice: Collected Works of Upendra Baxi (Volume 3: Law and Society). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2021.
- “Denotified Tribes”, Oxford Handbook on Caste, edited by Surinder Jodhka and Jules Naudet, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- “Backwardness, Oxford Handbook on Caste, edited by Surinder Jodhka and Jules Naudet, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021. Co-author: S. Anandhi.
- “Caste and Gender”, In Deshpande, Ashwini, ed. Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action. Springer. Forthcoming 2021.
- “Constitution-as-Commons, Spatial Justice and Estrangements in Adivasi India: The Continuing Legacy of Three Legal Cases”, in Antje Linkenbach and Vidhu Verma eds. State/Adivasis Law and Property Rights: Changing Norms of Justice. New Delhi: Sage, 2021.
- “COVID-19 Jurisprudence: Triadic Ethical Framework and the Faultlines of Constitutional Governance,” In Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti, Banerjee, Paula, Samaddar, Ranabir (eds), Covid-19 and Migrant Workers, New Delhi: Social Science Press/New York and London: Routledge, 2021.
- “Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Re-Conceptualizing Dignity after Puttaswamy vs. Union of India” in Rakhi Sehgal et. al. eds. Labouring Women and Violence: Building Workplaces free of Violence (co-author: Devi Jagani).
