| 2021-2023 | Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library |
| 2017-2020 | Maulana Azad National Professor, ICSSR |
| 2001-2016 | Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| 1998-2000 | Reader, Satyawati College, Delhi University |
| 1996-1997 | Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| 1991-1995 | Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| 1995 (July- Aug) | Fellow, National Centre for South Asian Studies, Melbourne, Australia |
| 1991 (November) | Rama Watumull Distinguished Scholar, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii |
| 1989 (summer) | Fellow, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University |
| 1973-1987 | Lecturer, Satyawati College, Delhi University |
