Environmental History of India, (Cambridge UP, 2018).
A Short History of the Mughal Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2015; Turkish language editions, tr. M. Fatih Çalışır, Istanbul: Kronik Kitap, 2020, 2023; Korean language edition, tr. Haneul Choi, Seoul: Forest Book, 2025).
Migration: A World History (New York: Oxford UP, 2013).
The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo Indian M.P. and Chancery ‘Lunatic’ (Hurst; Columbia UP).
Visions of Mughal India: An Anthology of European Travel Writing (I.B. Tauris, 2007); published in India as Across the Three Seas: Travellers Tales from Mughal India (Random House, 2007).
A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Subcontinent (co-authored with Shompa Lahiri and Shinder Thandi, Greenwood Press, 2007).
Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600-1857 (Permanent Black, 2004; 2019).
The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth Century Journey through India (edited) (University of California Press, 1997).
The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England (Oxford UP, 1996; 2000 paperback).
The Politics of the British Annexation of India, 1757-1857 (edited) (Oxford UP 1993; 1997).
Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System, 1764-1858 (Oxford UP, 1991; 1998).
A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British, and the Mughals (Delhi, 1987; Riverdale, 1987: Sangam, 1988).
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
Total: 85
Outside Reviewer for Promotion or Tenure
Total: 27 universities and colleges in US, UK, and Pakistan)
