| 1961 | Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas✓ | Oxford University Press, London | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1961 | Indian Tales✓ | G. Bell, London | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1965 | A History of India✓ | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 1966 | Ancient India✓ — a textbook of history for middle schools. | National Council of Educational Research and Training, [New Delhi] | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1969 | Communalism and the Writing of Indian History✓ | People's Pub. House, Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1970 | Medieval India✓ | National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1973 | The Past and Prejudice✓ — Sardar Patel Memorial Lectures Delivered Over All India Radio on 12th, 13th, and 14th January 1972. | Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1978 | Ancient Indian Social History✓ — Some Interpretations | Orient Longman, New Delhi | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 1978 | Exile and the Kingdom✓ — some thoughts on the Rāmāyana | Mythic Society, Bangalore | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1979 | Dissent in the Early Indian Tradition✓ | Indian Renaissance Institute, Dehradun | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1984 | From Lineage to State✓ — Social Formations in the Mid-first Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley | Oxford University Press, Bombay | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1986 | Situating Indian History for Sarvepalli Gopal✓ | Oxford University Press, Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1987 | The Mauryas Revisited✓ | Published for Centre for Studies in Social Sciences by K.P. Bagchi & Co., Calcutta | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1992 | Interpreting Early India✓ | Oxford University Press, Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1994 | Cultural Transaction and Early India✓ — tradition and patronage | Oxford University Press, Delhi | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 1995 | Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History✓ | Popular Prakashan, Bombay | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1996 | Time as a Metaphor of History✓ — early India | Oxford University Press, Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1996 | Tradition, Dissent and Ideology✓ | Oxford University Press, USA | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1999 | Historical Interpretations and the Secularising of Indian Society✓ | Visthar, Bangalore | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 1999 | Narratives and the Making of History✓ — Two Lectures | Oxford Paperbacks | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1999 | Śakuntalā✓ — Texts, Readings, Histories | Kali for Women, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1999 | Sakuntala Texts,Readings,Histories✓ | Kali For Women | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2000 | Cultural Pasts✓ — Essays in Early Indian History | Oxford University Press, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2000 | History and Beyond✓ | Oxford University Press, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2000 | India — Another Millennium? | Penguin Books | Open Library |
| 2002 | Early India✓ — From the Origins to AD 1300 | Allen Lane, London | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2002 | Reading History from Inscriptions✓ | K.P. Bagchi & Co., Kolkata | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2003 | The Penguin History of Early India✓ | Penguin Books, Limited | Open Library |
| 2004 | Somanatha✓ — the many voices of a history | Penguin, Viking, New Delhi | Open Library |
| 2004 | Somanatha -the Many Voices of a History✓ | Penguin books | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2004 | The Future of the Indian Past✓ | Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2008 | India Revisited✓ | Oxford University Press, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2008 | The Aryan✓ — recasting constructs | Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2009 | Ashoka and the Making of Modern India✓ | India International Centre, New Delhi | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 2009 | The Vamsavali from Chamba✓ | Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2013 | Early Indian History✓ | Oxford University Press India | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2013 | The Past Before Us✓ — Historical Traditions of Early North India | Permanent Black, Ranikhet | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2014 | Past as Present | Aleph Book Company, New Delhi | Open Library |
| 2015 | Debating the Ancient and Present✓ | Aakar in association with Department of Sociology Faculty of Social sciences South Asian University, Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2015 | The Public Intellectual in India✓ | Aleph in association with the Book Review Literary Trust, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2016 | Indian Society and the Secular✓ | Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon, Haryana, India | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2016 | On Nationalism✓ | Aleph, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2017 | Historian and Her Craft | Oxford University Press India | Open Library |
| 2017 | Talking History | [no publisher recorded] | Open Library |
| 2018 | Indian Cultures as Heritage✓ | Aleph, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2018 | Itihas, Kaal Aur Adikalin Bharat | Oxford University Press India | Open Library |
| 2019 | Questioning Paradigms Constructing Histories✓ | Aleph | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2019 | Which of US Are Aryans?✓ | Aleph, New Delhi | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2021 | Gazing Eastwards✓ | Seagull Books | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2021 | On Citizenship | Aleph | Open Library |
| 2021 | Voices of Dissent | Seagull Books | Open Library |
| 2024 | Idea of India | Seagull Books | Open Library |
| 2024 | Our History, Their History, Whose History? | Seagull Books | Open Library |