| Righteous republic: The political foundations of modern India A Vajpeyi Harvard University Press, 2012 | 171 | 2012 |
| Beyond counter-insurgency: Breaking the impasse in Northeast India S Baruah New Delhi: OUP, 2009 | 117 | 2009 |
| Hinduism and law: An introduction T Lubin, DR Davis Jr, JK Krishnan Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 68 | 2010 |
| Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India and the Ottoman Empire H Islamoglu, PC Perdue Taylor & Francis, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| Resenting the Indian state: For a new political practice in the Northeast A Vajpeyi Beyond counterinsurgency: Breaking the impasse in northeast India, 25-48, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Minorities and populism: Critical perspectives from South Asia and Europe V Kaul, A Vajpeyi Minorities and populism–critical perspectives from South Asia and Europe, 1-14, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| South Asian Texts in History Y Bronner, W Cox, L McCrea Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| Śūdradharma and legal treatments of caste A Vajpeyi Hinduism and Law: An Introduction, 154-166, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Hindi, Hinglish: head to head A Vajpeyi World Policy Journal 29 (2), 97-103, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| A history of caste in South Asia: From pre-colonial polity to biopolitical state A Vajpeyi Shared histories of modernity, 299-320, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Prolegomena to the study of people and places in violent India A Vajpeyi WISCOMP Foundation for Universal Responsibility, 2007 | 12 | 2007 |
| Minorities and populism in Modi’s India: the mirror effect A Vajpeyi Minorities and Populism–Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe, 17-28, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| Excavating identity through tradition: who was Shivaji? A Vajpeyi, S Saberwal, S Varma Traditions in Motion: Religion and Society in History, 240-71, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
| Ancient prejudice, modern inequality A Vajpeyi The Hindu 20, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| The Sudra in history: From scripture to segregation A Vajpeyi South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock, 338, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Ambedkar and the Struggle for Women’s Equality A Vajpeyi Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change 1 (1), 5-9, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| The Return of Sanskrit: How an old language got caught up in India's new culture wars A Vajpeyi World Policy Journal 33 (3), 45-50, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Politics of Complicity, Poetics of Contempt: A History of the Sudra in Maharashtra, 1650–1950 CE A Vajpeyi PhD. diss., University of Chicago, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Traditions in motion: Religion and society in history S Saberwal, S Ratnagar, S Varma Oxford University Press, 2005 | 8 | 2005 |
| Teaching against communalism: Role of social science pedagogy A Vajpeyi Economic and Political Weekly, 5093-5097, 2002 | 8 | 2002 |