Written

• India's green revolution: Economic gains and political costs (Princeton University Press, 1971)
• India's Political Economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution (Princeton Univ Press, 1978)
• The Nonproliferation Treaty (University Press of America, 1995)
• India's Political Economy 1947-2004: The Gradual Revolution, 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• India's Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Edited

• Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 1 (Oxford University Press, 1990), with M. S. A. Rao
• Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 2 (Oxford University Press, 1990), with M. S. A. Rao
• Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2002), with Zoya Hasan, Rajeev Bhargava and Balveer Arora
• The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (Columbia University Press, 2004), with Harry Harding