Books
Capturing Institutional Change: Case of Right to Information Act in India, Oxford University Press (October 2020)
Public Policy and Governance in India: Persistence and Change, Book Contract with Palgrave Macmillan (London) in the Pivot series ( Forthcoming : Manuscript under preparation)
Jivanta Schottli and Himanshu Jha (eds.), Globalization and Governance in India, Taylor and Francis
Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)
Himanshu Jha and Tanvi Deshpande. Governing across scales: building policy capacity in weak State. Global Public Policy and Governance (https://doi.org/10.1007/s43508-026-00142-2), 2026
Abdul Waheed a,b, Phoebe Griffitha, Mujtaba Isanic, Yusdiel Torres-Cambasa, Altaf Siyal, Himanshu Jha, Sonja C. Jähnig. How the colonial-era water management paradigm continues to shape the Indus Delta crisis. International Journal of River Basin Management. 2026
Pathways to Develop State Capacity in a Weak State: The Case of Sub-National State of Bihar in India, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 61 (4).2023
“India’s Authoritarian Turn: Understanding the Emergency (1975-1977) and its Afterlife” (Review Essay), Pacific Affairs 96 (1). (Among the top ten Pacific Affairs articles downloaded from Ingenta in 2023)
“Interrogating Settled Terrains of State Capacity: Explaining Governance Reforms in a Low-Capacity Milieu”, Journal of Indian and Asian Studies 3 (2). 2023
“Interrogating the Resurgence of Administrative State: Ideas and State Capacity”, International Journal of Public Sector Management 35 (4). 2022
Politics of Welfare and Governance in India, Thematic Book Review Essay, Journal of Asian Studies (Issue 81.1). 2022
“Institutional Change in the Welfare Regime in India: Broadening the Dominant Narratives” (Review article), Indian Politics & Policy, Volume 2,Issue 2, Fall 2019
“Ideas and Policy Paradigms: Explaining the fall of welfare politics in West Bengal”, Indian Politics & Policy, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019
“The BJP’s Puzzling Victory: Was it About Hindu Nationalism?”, The Washington Quarterly (Invited)
“Untangling Global-Local Linkages: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India”, India Review, Volume 18, Number 1, January–February 2019
“State Processes, Ideas, and Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India”, Pacific Affairs Volume 91 (2) (June 2018)
“Institutional Progression of the Right to Information Act: Emerging Politics of Accountability” (Special Article), Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 53, Issue 10, (March 2018)
“Bureaucratic Rationality, Political Will and State Capacity: MGNREGS in Undivided Andhra Pradesh” (co-authored), Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 52 (49) (December 2017)
“Institutions of Intergovernmental Relations in the Federal Framework of Australia and India”, Indian Journal of Federal Studies 8 (2) (2003).
“Policy Impact on Institutions of Federal Financial Transfers in Australia and India”, Indian Journal of Public Administration Volume 50 (3), Special Number on “Management of Central and State Finances: Present Status and Future Prospects”, July –October 2004.
Books Chapters
“India and Bangladesh in Climate Change Finance: From Structural Conflict to Embedded Liberalism” (With Rahul Mukherji), In, Global Governance, Tim Büthe (ed.), Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)
“The State, Ideas and Welfare in India: Reflections on Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal” (With Rahul Mukherji), In, Vidu Verma (ed.), State in India: Reflections on Contemporary Politics, Orient Blackswan
“Emerging Politics of Accountability: Sub-national Reflections from Bihar.” In: Sekher M., Carciumaru R. (eds) Including the Excluded in South Asia.pp 173-191. Springer, Singapore
“Policy As Instrument for Reconciling Diversity: Experience of the Indian federal System”, Chapter in Policy Issues in Federalism: International Perspectives. Editors: John Kinciad and Rupak Chattopadhyay. Forum of Federations, Canada, Viva Books 2008.
Contributed in Global Civil Society Yearbook 2009, “National Social Watch Coalition in India: A tool for governance Accountability”, Published jointly by London School of Economics and Political Science; Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg University. Sage. May 2009.
“Privatization in Federal Systems: Electricity Sector in Australia and India”, in an edited Volume Public Governance And Decentralization, edited by S.N.Mishra and S. Mishra (New Delhi: Mittal Publications 2003).
Book Reviews
Multi-Book Review Freud’s Mahabharata and Freud’s India: Sigmund Freud and India’s First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose, by Alf Hiltebeitel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. In Journal of Asian Studies , (Forthcoming March 2021 )
How India became democratic: Citizenship and the making of the universal franchise, by Ornit Shani, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.In Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Mar 2020
The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation, by Yuko Aoyama with Balaji Parthasarathy. Edward Elgar, 2016 .In Journal of Southeast Asian Economies Vol. 36/1 Apr 2019
Markets and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Lessons from Development Projects. By Dev Nathan, Ganesh Thapa, Govind Kelkar with Antonella Cordone. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012. In Journal of Southeast Asian Economies 31(1) April 2014.
Sahoo, Sarbeswar (2013). Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interests. Abingdon, Oxon. Routledge. In Asian Journal of Social Science 42, 2014.
Corbridge Stuart, Harris John, and Jeffery Craig (eds.) (2013) India Today: Economy, Politics and Society. Cambridge, UK. Polity Press. In Asian Journal of Social Science 41 (2013)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Acemoglu Daron and James.A.Robinson . New York, Crown Business 2012. In ASEAN Economic Bulletin 29(2). August 2012.