Ankit, Rakesh (2021) M.C. Chagla and the “nationalist” imaginations of a “political minority” in India, 1947–67. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 41 (3). pp. 491-509. ISSN 13602004

Ankit, Rakesh (2018) Junagadh, India and the logic of occupation and appropriation, 1947–49. Studies in History, 34 (2). pp. 109-140. ISSN 0973-080X

Ankit, Rakesh (2018) GA Naqvi: from Indian police (UP), 1926 to Pakistani citizen (Sindh), 1947. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 28 (2). pp. 295-314. ISSN 1474-0591

Ankit, Rakesh (2017) India-USSR, 1946-1949: A false start? In: India and the world in the first half of the twentieth century. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 160-188. ISBN 9781351255325; 9781138282568

Ankit, Rakesh (2017) The transfer of Jodhpur railways, 1947–48: denials, delays and divisions. Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (40). pp. 40-47. ISSN 129976

Ankit, Rakesh (2017) Marxist Guru, socialist neta, Buddhist acharya, Gandhi’s shishya: the many Narendra Deva(s) (1889–1956). Global Intellectual History, 2 (3). pp. 250-369. ISSN 23801883

Ankit, Rakesh (2017) Janata party (1974–77): Creation of an all-India opposition. History and Sociology of South Asia, 11 (1). pp. 39-54. ISSN 22308075

Ankit, Rakesh (2016) The accession of Junagadh, 1947–48: Colonial sovereignty, state violence and post-independence India. The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 53 (3). pp. 1-34. ISSN 194646

Ankit, Rakesh (2016) A regional satrap, a Hindu nationalist and a conservative congressman: Dwarka Prasad Mishra (1901–1988). Contemporary South Asia, 24 (1). pp. 36-49. ISSN 9584935

Ankit, Rakesh (2016) The Kashmir conflict: From empire to the cold war, 1945-66. 1st ed. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781315623184

Ankit, Rakesh (2016) America, India, and Kashmir, 1945–49: “If Ignorance About India in This Country is Deep, Ignorance About the [Princely] States is Abysmal”1. Diplomacy & Statecraft, 27 (1). pp. 22-24. ISSN 9592296

Ankit, Rakesh (2015) Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian national congress and party politics, 1934–1954. Studies in Indian Politics, 3 (2). pp. 149-163. ISSN 23210230

Ankit, Rakesh (2015) In the twilight of empire: Two impressions of Britain and India at the United Nations, 1945-47. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 38 (4). pp. 574-588. ISSN 00856401