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| Ethnic conflict and civil society: India and beyond A Varshney World politics, 362-398, 2001 | 712 | 2001 |
| Democracy, development, and the countryside: Urban-rural struggles in India A Varshney Cambridge University Press, 1998 | 473 | 1998 |
| Nationalism, ethnic conflict, and rationality A Varshney Perspectives on politics, 85-99, 2003 | 321 | 2003 |
| Contested meanings: India's national identity, Hindu nationalism, and the politics of anxiety A Varshney Daedalus 122 (3), 227-261, 1993 | 230 | 1993 |
| Mass politics or elite politics? India's economic reforms in comparative perspective A Varshney The Journal of Policy Reform 2 (4), 301-335, 1998 | 225 | 1998 |
| Is India becoming more democratic? A Varshney Journal of Asian Studies, 3-25, 2000 | 213 | 2000 |
| Ethnicity and ethnic conflict A Varshney The Oxford handbook of comparative politics, 274-294, 2007 | 204 | 2007 |
| India in the era of economic reforms J Sachs, A Varshney, N Bajpai Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 | 186 | 2000 |
| Patterns of Collective violence in Indonesia, 1990-2003 A Varshney, MZ Tadjoeddin, R Panggabean UNSFIR, 2004 | 142 | 2004 |
| Caste and entrepreneurship in India L Iyer, T Khanna, A Varshney Economic and Political Weekly, 52-60, 2013 | 130 | 2013 |
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| India, Pakistan, and Kashmir: Antinomies of Nationalism A Varshney Asian Survey 31 (11), 997-1019, 1991 | 124 | 1991 |
| Democracy and poverty A Varshney Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, 383-401, 2005 | 122 | 2005 |
| India's democratic challenge A Varshney Foreign Aff. 86, 93, 2007 | 96 | 2007 |
| Ethnic diversity and ethnic strife. An interdisciplinary perspective R Kanbur, PK Rajaram, A Varshney World Development 39 (2), 147-158, 2011 | 78 | 2011 |
| Creating datasets in information-poor environments: Patterns of collective violence in Indonesia, 1990–2003 A Varshney, MZ Tadjoeddin, R Panggabean Journal of East Asian Studies, 361-394, 2008 | 72 | 2008 |
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| Postmodernism, civic engagement, and ethnic conflict: A passage to India A Varshney Comparative Politics, 1-20, 1997 | 69 | 1997 |
| Why have poor democracies not eliminated poverty? A suggestion A Varshney Asian Survey 40 (5), 718-736, 2000 | 67 | 2000 |
