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Authored Books

Kumar, Sunil (2007) The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286. Delhi: Permanent Black.

Kumar, Sunil (2002) The Present in Delhi’s Pasts. Delhi: Three Essays Collective.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Kumar, Sunil, Faruqui, Munis, Eaton, Richard M. and Gilmartin, David, eds. (2009) Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in Honour of John F. Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Special Issue of Modern Asian Studies. 43(1))

Kumar, Sunil, ed. (2008) Demolishing Myths or Mosques and Temples? Readings on History and Temple Desecration in Medieval India. Delhi: Three Essays Press.

Kumar, Sunil and Chakrabarti, Kunal, eds. (2007) Our Pasts II: Social Science Text Book in History for Class VII. Delhi: NCERT.

Book Chapters

Kumar, Sunil (2012) 'Delhi.' In: Böwering, Gerhard, (ed.), Princeton encyclopedia of Islamic political thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 126-127.

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'The Pir’s barakat and the Servitor’s Ardour: the contrasting history of two Sufi shrines in Delhi.' In: Dayal, Mala, (ed.), Celebrating Delhi. Delhi: Penguin and Ravi Dayal.

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Bandagani and Naukari: Studying transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, 13th-16th centuries.' In: Orsini, Francesca, (ed.), After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in fifteenth century North India. London: SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Courts, Capitals and Kingship: Delhi and its Sultans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries CE.' In: Hartung, Jan-Peter and Fuess, Albrecht, (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World. London: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East.

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Delhi Sultanate.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Leiden: E.J. Brill. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Khalaji Dynasty.' In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Leiden: E.J.Brill. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Reflections on the Past and Present of two Sufi Shrines in Delhi.' In: Kumar, Sunil, (ed.), The Present in Delhi’s Pasts. Delhi: Three Essays Collective. 2nd ed..

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'Sites of Power and Resistance: a reading of Sultanate Monumental Architecture and Sufi discourse.' In: Brown, Rebecca M. and Hutton, Deborah, (eds.), Blackwell’s Companion to Art. London: Blackwell. (Unpublished)

Kumar, Sunil (2008) 'Juzjani, Minhaj-i Siraj.' In: Encyclopaedia Iranica. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Kumar, Sunil (2008) 'Politics, the Muslim Community and Hindu-Muslim Relations Reconsidered: North India in the early Thirteenth century.' In: Datta, Rajat, (ed.), Rethinking a Millennium: Perspectives on Indian History from the Eighth to the Eighteenth century: Essays for Harbans Mukhia. Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 139-167.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) 'Balancing Autonomy with Service: Frontier Military Commanders and their Relations with the Delhi Sultans in the 13th and 14th centuries.' In: Singh, Navtej, (ed.), Punjab History Conference, Thirty-ninth session, March 16-18, 2007 : proceedings. Patiala: Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, pp. 86-100.

Kumar, Sunil (2007) 'Raziyya, Sultan.' In: Smith, Bonnie G., (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 585-586.

Kumar, Sunil (2006) 'Mongols and Nomadic Empires, 13th-14th Centuries.' In: Gupta, Narayani, (ed.), NCERT Class XI, Text-book on World History. Delhi: NCERT.

Kumar, Sunil (2006) 'Service, Status and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.' In: Eaton, Richard M. and Chatterjee, Indrani, (eds.), Slavery and South Asian history. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 83-114.

Kumar, Sunil (2001) 'Qutb and Modern Memory.' In: Kaul, Suvir, (ed.), The partitions of memory : the afterlife of the division of India. Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 140-182.

Kumar, Sunil (2000) 'Assertions of Authority: a Study of the Discursive Statements of Two Sultans of Delhi—‘Ala al-Din Khalaji and Nizam al-Din Auliya.' In: Alam, Muzaffar, Delvoye, Francoise ‘Nalini’ and Gaborieau, Marc, (eds.), The Making of Indo-Persian Culture: Indian and French Studies. Delhi: Manohar, pp. 37-65.

Kumar, Sunil (1999) 'Perceiving ‘your’ land: neighbourhood settlements and the Hauz-i Rani.' In: Layton, R. and Ucko, P., (eds.), The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 159-174.

Journal Article

Kumar, Sunil (2009) 'The Ignored Elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian Secretarial Class in the early Delhi Sultanate.' Modern Asian Studies, 43 (1). pp. 45-77.

Kumar, Sunil (2005) 'La Communauté Musulmane et les Relations Hindous-Musulmans dans l’Inde du Nord au début du XIIIe siècl: une Réévaluation Politique.' Annales: Histoire, Sciences, Sociales, 60 (2). pp. 239-264.

Kumar, Sunil (1994) 'A Medieval Tank and Modern Urban Planning: Local Society and the Hauz-i Rānī.' Germinal: Fascism and Culture, 1. pp. 157-166.

Kumar, Sunil (1994) 'When Slaves were nobles: The Shamsi bandagan in the early Delhi Sultanate.' Studies in History, 10 (1). pp. 23-52.

Kumar, Sunil (1993) 'Making Sacred History or Everyone his own Historian: a study of the village of Saidlajab.' The India Magazine of her People and Culture, 13. pp. 46-55.

Kumar, Sunil (1985) 'The value of the Ādāb al-Mulūk wa Kifāyat al-Mamlūk as a historical source; an insight into the ideals and expectations of Islamic society in the Middle period (945-1500).' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22 (3). pp. 307-327.

Monographs and Working Papers

Holmwood, John, Aitlhadj, Layla, Scott-Baumann, Alison, Renton, David, Mondon, Aurelien, Kumar, Sunil, Mohammed, Jahangir, Faure-Walker, Rob, Tafadar, Sultana, O'Toole, Therese, Meer, Nasar and Dioum, Mor (2022) The People’s Review of Prevent: Full Report. Manchester: Prevent Watch.

Other

Ismail, Feyzi (2014) 'Literature Review for Nepal.' In: The Urbanisation-Construction-Migration Nexus in 5 Cities in South Asia, LSE for DFID’s South Asia Research Hub. The Urbanisation-Construction-Migration Nexus in 5 Cities in South Asia, LSE for DFID’s South Asia Research Hub .