Books

Poddar. P., & Prasad, A. (eds.) (2009).Gorkhas Imagined: I.B. Rai in Translation. Kalimpong: Mukti Prakashan.

Poddar, P. (2004) Postkolonial Contra-modernitet: Immigration, Identitet, Historie. Aarhus: Modtryk Forlag (in Danish).

Poddar, P. (ed.) (2000). Translating Nations. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press

Select Essays and Chapters

Poddar, P. (2026) ‘Wrench[ing] it from itself: Gorkhas Imagined 2025 and Beyond’, in Nepali/Gorkha Writing: Indra Bahadur Rai in Translation (BukAnt Publishers).

Poddar, P. (Forthcoming 2026) ‘Border Cosmopolis: Kalimpong in Himalayan India’, Religion and Urbanity online at Max-Weber Kolleg, Erfurt University.

Poddar, P. (2023) ‘Borders that cross us: The Case of Badrinarayan Pradhan’s Mauli’. In Mauli. Introduced by Prem Poddar, Translated by Anmole Prasad. Gangtok: Rachna Books.

Poddar, P (2022/23). ‘Theorising Water: Shifting Scales of the Himalayan Anthropocene. In J. Suarez & J. Carlos (eds.) Transdisciplinary Thinking from the Global South. London and New York: Routledge.

Poddar, P. (2021) Force Fields of the Modern: the Symbolic Contestation of Power. In N. Gontier, A. Lock & C. Sinha (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Poddar, P. and Lisa Zhang (2021) ‘Espionage, Intrigues and Politics: Kalimpong Chung Hwa School as International Playhouse’. China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies. 3(1).

Poddar, P., & Sinha, C. (2021). ‘(Re)imagining Empire: Great(er) China and Global Britain’. Seminar 743 (special on Editing History).

Poddar, P. and Lisa Zhang ((2021) ‘China as Third Pole: Between Theorising and Thought Work’. In J. Farley & M. D. Johnson (eds.) Redefining propaganda in modern China. London: Routledge.

Poddar, P. (2010). The Uses of the Passport: The Chess Players and Narratives of British Nationhood. Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Poddar, P. (2010). Passage to Cosmopolistan: Diaspora in Britain. In Diasporic Writing: The Dynamics of Belonging. Delhi: IGNOU.

Poddar, P. (2008). Afterlife of the Original: Gorkhaness and Rai in Translation. In P. Poddar & A. Prasad (eds.), I.B. Rai in Translation. Gangtok: Mukti Prakashan.

Poddar, P. (2020). Darjeeling/Kalimpong: Rethinking Pasts and Futures. Studies in Nepali History and Society, 25(1).

Poddar, P. (2020). Translation and Transnationality in the Himalaya: Writing Gorrka Language and Culture. In V. D. S. Sinha, A. Moreno-Núñez, & Z. Tian (eds.), Language, Culture and Identity: Signs of Life. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, Nr. 13.

Poddar, P. (2020). ‘Darjeeling/Kalimpong: Rethinking Pasts and Futures’. Studies in Nepali History and Society, 25(1).

Poddar, P. (2019). ‘The Indian Ocean Novel’. In A. Tickell (ed.), The Novel in South And South East Asia Since 1945 (Bind 10). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Poddar, P., & Lindkvist Zhang, L. (2017). ‘Kalimpong: The China Connection’. In M. Viehbeck (ed.), Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone” (s. 149-174). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.

Poddar, P., & Mealor, C. (2017). ‘Kalimpong as Fiction or Ethnography? Gorkha/Nepali Sensitivities in the Himalayas’. In M. Viehbeck (ed.), Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands: Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone” (s. 321-346). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.

Poddar, P. (2016). ‘The Differential Uses of Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra’. Akademisk kvarter, 14.

Poddar, P., Patke, R. & Jensen, L. (2008). Introduction: Postcolonial Europes. In Postcolonial Literatures in Continental Europe and its Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Poddar, P. (2007). “In a Small Country Like Ours…”: Imagining Inuit Identity. Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Poddar, P. (2007). Passports, Empire, Subjects. In P. Poddar & D. MacPhee (eds.), Empire and After. New York: Berghahn Books.

Poddar, P. (2007). Introduction: Nationalism beyond the Nation-State. In P. Poddar & D. MacPhee (eds.), Empire and After. New York: Berghahn Books.

Poddar, P. (2006). The Power of Mantras: Postcoloniality, Education, Development. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 14(2).

Poddar, P. (n.d.). Danish Imperial Fantasies: Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow. In Translating Nations.

Poddar, P. (2004). Stating Culture: Colonial Matrices. Journal of Cultural Research, 7(3).

Poddar, P. (2002). Introduction: Violent Civilities. In Translating Nations.

Poddar. P. (2001). ‘From Uruch Beg to Don Juan de Persia’. Wasafari 16(34): 5-9.

Poddar. P. (1998). Scopic America: Casting a Postcolonial Eye. In M. J. Zabrowska, Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

Poddar, P. (2000). Migrant Markings…of Sense and Circumstance. Journal of American Ethnic History.

Poddar, P. (1999). Designing Destinations: The Occidental Tourist. In T. Subba (ed.), Wonder that is Culture. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.

Poddar, P. (1998). Scopic America: Casting a Postcolonial Eye. In M. Zaborowska (ed.), Other America(n)s. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

Poddar, P. (1995). Secularism as an Idea Will Change: Interview with Homi Bhabha. The Book Review, January. Republished in The Hindu.