Pandey has written widely on the subjects of South Asian and African-American history, on colonial and post-colonial themes, and on matters relating to subaltern studies.
He recently started a course at Emory University, US, combining Dalit history with that of African Americans.[4] He is known for his proposition that "all racism is upper caste racism." He states.
"Upper caste, because ruling and dominant groups and classes across the globe believe it is their inherited right to rule and to live in special comfort and prosperity. Racism, because that is a way of keeping subordinated and marginalized groups – sometimes called minorities – "in their place;" and because the assumption of the right to rule, property and 'culture' leads to the segregation and subordination of those without privileged access to these, and to their denigration, castigation and even expulsion at times when they are seen as challenging the existing order of caste and race, Black and White."[5][1]
Select publications
Books
Pandey, Gyanendra (1992). The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India. Oxford University Press.
ISBN0195630106.. Reissued in 2006,
ISBN0195683641; and in 2012,
ISBN0198077300.
Pandey, Gyanendra (2001). Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052180759X.
Pandey, Gyanendra, 'In Defence of the Fragment: Writing About Hindu-Muslim Riots in India', Economic & Political Weekly, Annual Number, march 1991, repr. in The Hunger of the Republic: Our Present in Retrospect, from the series
India Since the 90s.
Pandey, Gyanendra (1999). "Can a Muslim Be an Indian?" Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 608–629.
"Rallying Around the Cow" (published in Subaltern Studies, Volume II)[6]