Books
- Three Mughal Poets, 1968
- Ghalib, life and letters, 1969
- New course in Urdu and spoken Hindi for learners in Britain, 1997
- The pursuit of Urdu literature 1992
- Selections from the Persian Ghazals of Ghalib with Translations 1997
- An Anthology of Urdu Literature 1999
- How not to write the history of Urdu literature 1999
- The Famous Ghalib 2000
- The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters and Ghazals 2003
- The Seeing Eye: Selection from the Urdu and Persian Ghazals of Ghalib 2003
- Urdu in Britain (Ed), 1982
- Ghalib: The Poet and his Age (Ed) 1997
Autobiography
- Findings, keepings: Life, Communism and everything 2001
- Losses, Gains published by Three Essays, New Delhi, 2010
In Urdu
- Urdu Adab ki Justuju (Urdu translation of The Pursuit of Urdu Literature, by Muhammad Sarwar Rija (2003)
- Juyinda Yabinda (Urdu transaltion of his autobiography, by Arjumand Ara), City Press, Karchi, 2005
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