Amrita Basu - Publications

Publications

Basu's main publications address three main themes. The first concerns women's participation in left wing movements. This was the subject of her first book. A second theme concerns women's movements transnationally. A third theme is ethnic and religious conflict in India.

Basu, Amrita. Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women’s Activism in India. University of California Press and Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 1992

Basu, Amrita, ed, The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995 and New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998

Basu, Amrita, co-ed. Community Conflicts and the State in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997

Basu, Amrita, co-ed. Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. New York: Routledge and New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998

Basu, Amrita, co-ed. Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World. Syracuse University Press, 2002

Basu, Amrita, co-ed, Beyond Exceptionalism: Violence, Religion and Democracy in India. Seagull Press: New Delhi and London, 2006

Basu, Amrita, ed, Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms. Westview Press: Boulder, CO, 2010

Basu has written several articles and contributions to edited books and journals including the Oxford Companion to Politics in India, the Introduction to Comparative Politics, the Journal of Women’s History, and many others.