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Most cited papers in South Asian Studies and Conflicts

South Asian Studies and Conflicts

What are the most cited papers in South Asian Studies and Conflicts?

The most cited paper in South Asian Studies and Conflicts is "blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state" (Akhil Gupta, 1995), with 2,515 citations. Next come "Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization" (1,433) and "Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes" (1,178).

Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 148 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist May 1995 2,515
2 Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization Ananya Roy · Planning Theory 12 Jan 2009 1,433
3 Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes Mildred Trotter, Goldine C. Gleser · American Journal of Physical Anthropology Dec 1952 1,178
4 The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov 1976 1,017
5 The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945–1993 Roy E. Licklider · American Political Science Review Sep 1995 747
6 is homo hierarchicus? Arjun Appadurai · American Ethnologist Nov 1986 672
7 Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography Gyan Prakash · Comparative Studies in Society and History Apr 1990 612
8 Rural Roads and Local Economic Development Sam Asher, Paul Michael Novosad · American Economic Review Open access 28 Feb 2020 587
9 The system of administrative and political corruption: Canal irrigation in South India Robert Wade · The Journal of Development Studies Apr 1982 578
10 Votes and violence electoral competition and ethnic riots in India Steven Ian Wilkinson 2006 566
11 Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal Abhijit V. Banerjee, Paul Gertler, Maitreesh Ghatak · Journal of Political Economy Apr 2002 559
12 The Enchantments of Infrastructure Penny Harvey, Hannah Knox · Mobilities 14 Sep 2012 550
13 The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation Arend Lijphart · American Political Science Review Jun 1996 545
14 States, Insurgents, and Wartime Political Orders Paul Staniland · Perspectives on Politics 25 May 2012 545
15 Fluid Signs. Being a Person the Tamil Way Milton Eder · Pacific Affairs Mar 1986 523
16 Indigenous knowledge and the politics of classification Arun Agrawal · International Social Science Journal Sep 2002 490
17 Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage David Mosse · World Development Open access 21 Jun 2018 475
18 Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India Subrata Κ. Mitra · Perspectives on Politics Mar 2005 460
19 “This is no longer the city I once knew”. Evictions, the urban poor and the right to the city in millennial Delhi Gautam Bhan · Environment and Urbanization 18 Mar 2009 459
20 Between violence and desire: space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi Amita Baviskar · International Social Science Journal Mar 2003 430
21 Unpacking the Strength of the State: The Utility of State Infrastructural Power Hillel David Soifer, Matthias vom Hau · Studies in Comparative International Development Open access 27 Aug 2008 391
22 Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in South Asia: A Working Synthesis Dorian Q. Fuller · Journal of World Prehistory 30 Nov 2006 382
23 Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature Nicholas Sambanis · World Politics Open access Jul 2000 374
24 Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? James L. Gibson · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Open access 13 Dec 2005 367
25 Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India David Washbrook · Modern Asian Studies Jul 1981 361
26 Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War James D. Fearon, David D. Laitin · World Development 21 Nov 2010 354
27 India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality Maya Chadda · Political Science Quarterly Open access 2000 336
28 Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India Paramjit S. Judge, Gyanendra Krishna Pandey · Social Scientist 2004 327
29 Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh Samuel Y. Johnson, ABU MD. NUR ALAM · Geological Society of America Bulletin 1991 315
30 The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of “Villagers' Beliefs” in Nepal Stacy Leigh Pigg · Cultural Anthropology Open access May 1996 307
31 The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition W. H. McLeod · Pacific Affairs Dec 1994 292
32 Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India Stuart Corbridge · Political Science Quarterly 2005 284
33 Gender Politics in Global Governance Shirin M Rai · Women s Studies International Forum Mar 2000 284
34 The sacred groves of Western Ghats in India Madhav Gadgil, V. D. Vartak · Economic Botany Apr 1976 269
35 Geography, poverty and conflict in Nepal Quy‐Toan Do, Lakshmi Iyer · Journal of Peace Research Nov 2010 269
36 Democracy and economic transformation in India Niraja Gopal Jayal Book chapter 9 Mar 2011 260
37 Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India John Echeverri‐Gent · Political Science Quarterly 2005 259
38 Kashmiri: A cognitive-descriptive grammar Rakesh Mohan Bhatt · Lingua Nov 1999 255
39 Caste and Kinship in Kangra Gerald D. Berreman · Pacific Affairs Mar 1980 254
40 When All Else Fails: Ethnic Population Transfers and Partitions in the Twentieth Century Chaim D. Kaufmann · International Security Oct 1998 248
41 Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India. Mitchell Young · Nations and Nationalism 26 Jan 2006 247
42 Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data David Muchlinski, David S. Siroky, Jingrui He et al. · Political Analysis 23 Oct 2015 246
43 Shifting of the Kosi River, northern India Neil Andrew Wells, John A. Dorr · Geology 1987 246
44 Making Merit: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste Ajantha Subramanian · Comparative Studies in Society and History 20 Mar 2015 241
45 Living Amidst Large Wildlife: Livestock and Crop Depredation by Large Mammals in the Interior Villages of Bhadra Tiger Reserve, South India M. D. Madhusudan · Environmental Management Apr 2003 239
46 Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood Sankaran Krishna · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) 1999 238
47 Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle: Women's Empowerment, Neoliberal Governmentality, and State (Re)Formation in India Aradhana Sharma · Cultural Anthropology Open access Feb 2006 234
48 Campzenship: reimagining the camp as a social and political space Nando Sigona · Citizenship Studies 7 Aug 2014 225
49 Disciplining and policing the 'criminals by birth', Part 1: The making of a colonial stereotype— The criminal tribes and castes of North India Sanjay K. Nigám · The Indian Economic & Social History Review Jun 1990 224
50 Everyday State Formation: Territory, Decentralization, and the Narco Landgrab in Colombia Teo Ballvé · Environment and Planning D Society and Space Open access 2012 221

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