| The history of history: Politics and scholarship in modern India V Lal Oxford University Press, 2005 | 212 | 2005 |
| Empire of knowledge: Culture and plurality in the global economy V Lal | 160 | 2002 |
| Not this, not that: The Hijras of India and the cultural politics of sexuality V Lal Social text, 119-140, 1999 | 157 | 1999 |
| The politics of history on the Internet: Cyber-diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu diaspora V Lal Diaspora: A journal of transnational studies 8 (2), 137-172, 1999 | 123 | 1999 |
| Nakedness, nonviolence, and Brahmacharya: Gandhi's experiments in celibate sexuality V Lal Journal of the History of Sexuality 9 (1/2), 105-136, 2000 | 85 | 2000 |
| The other Indians: A political and cultural history of South Asians in America V Lal (No Title), 2008 | 66 | 2008 |
| Establishing roots, engendering awareness: A political history of Asian Indians in the United States V Lal Live like the banyan tree: Images of the Indian American experience, 42-48, 1999 | 60 | 1999 |
| The concentration camp and development: the pasts and future of genocide 1 V Lal Colonialism and Genocide, 124-147, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| The impossibility of the outsider in the modern Hindi film V Lal The secret politics of our desires: Innocence, culpability, and Indian …, 1998 | 58 | 1998 |
| Fingerprinting popular culture: the mythic and the iconic in Indian cinema V Lal, A Nandy Oxford University Press, 2006 | 57 | 2006 |
| Subaltern studies and its critics: Debates over Indian history V Lal History and Theory 40 (1), 135-148, 2001 | 56 | 2001 |
| Dissenting knowledges, open futures: The multiple selves and strange destinations of Ashis Nandy V Lal | 49 | 2013 |
| Gandhi's West, the West's Gandhi V Lal New Literary History 40 (2), 281-313, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| Too deep for deep ecology: Gandhi and the ecological vision of life V Lai Hinduism and ecology, 183-212, 2000 | 40 | 2000 |
| Political Hinduism: The religious imagination in public spheres V Lal (No Title), 2009 | 36 | 2009 |
| The Gandhi everyone loves to hate V Lal Economic and Political Weekly, 55-64, 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
| North American Hindus, the sense of history, and the politics of internet diasporism V Lal Asian America. Net, 98-138, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Provincializing the West: World history from the perspective of Indian history V Lal Writing world history 2000, 271-289, 1800 | 32 | 1800 |
| Multiculturalism at Risk V Lal Economic and Political Weekly 41 (35), 3764-3765, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| The Incident of the ‘Crawling Lane’: Women in the Punjab Disturbances of 1919 V Lal Genders, 35-60, 1993 | 29 | 1993 |
