Stanford University Press, 2020

Nobody's People

Why do so many in India, the world’s most famously hierarchical society, continue to live with such drive and hope? And why do those long seen as “subjugated” embrace hierarchy rather than flee from it?

Cambridge University Press, 2014

Patronage as Politics in South Asia

What does it mean when citizens worship their politicians, fall at their feet, or expect them to provide food, jobs, protection, even love? To many observers, these practices look like corruption, feudal leftovers, or failures of democracy.

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Endarkenment

Endarkenment traces the history of how American politics, once built on the principles of the Enlightenment, was refashioned by evangelical Christianity—and how that faith has transformed America's political left.