| Land dispossession and everyday politics in rural eastern India KB Nielsen Anthem Press, 2018 | 95 | 2018 |
| Contesting India’s development? Industrialisation, land acquisition and protest in West Bengal KB Nielsen Forum for Development Studies 37 (2), 145-170, 2010 | 89 | 2010 |
| Law struggles and hegemonic processes in neoliberal India: Gramscian reflections on land acquisition legislation KB Nielsen, AG Nilsen Globalizations 12 (2), 203-216, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| Women, gender and everyday social transformation in India KB Nielsen, A Waldrop Anthem Press, 2014 | 55* | 2014 |
| Agrarian crossroads: rural aspirations and capitalist transformation RB Bennike, MB Rasmussen, KB Nielsen Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du …, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| The politics of caste in West Bengal U Chandra, G Heierstad, KB Nielsen Routledge, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| The rise and fall of the ‘people's car’: middle-class aspirations, status and mobile symbolism in ‘New India’ KB Nielsen, H Wilhite Contemporary South Asia 23 (4), 371-387, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
| India’s new coal geography: Coastal transformations, imported fuel and state-business collaboration in the transition to more fossil fuel energy P Oskarsson, KB Nielsen, K Lahiri-Dutt, B Roy Energy Research & Social Science 73, 101903, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
| Staying cool, looking good, moving around: Consumption, sustainability and the ‘rise of the south’ A Hansen, KB Nielsen, H Wilhite Forum for Development Studies 43 (1), 5-25, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| The politics of caste in India’s new land wars KB Nielsen, S Sareen, P Oskarsson Journal of Contemporary Asia 50 (5), 684-695, 2020 | 39 | 2020 |
| Industrialising rural India: land, policy and resistance KB Nielsen, P Oskarsson Taylor & Francis, 2016 | 36* | 2016 |
| The importance of caste in Bengal U Chandra, KB Nielsen Economic and Political Weekly, 59-61, 2012 | 36 | 2012 |
| Social movements, state formation and democracy in India: An introduction AG Nilsen, KB Nielsen Social movements and the state in India: Deepening democracy?, 1-23, 2016 | 35* | 2016 |
| Love jihad and the governance of gender and intimacy in Hindu nationalist statecraft KB Nielsen, AG Nilsen Religions 12 (12), 1068, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
| Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia A Hansen, KB Nielsen Routledge, 2016 | 32* | 2016 |
| Law and Larai: The (De)Judicialisation of Subaltern Resistance in West Bengal KB Nielsen Journal of Contemporary Asia 45 (4), 618-639, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Development deadlock: aborted industrialization and blocked land restitution in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, India P Oskarsson, KB Nielsen Development Studies Research. An Open Access Journal 1 (1), 267-278, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| The regional identity politics of India’s new land wars: Land, food, and popular mobilisation in Goa and West Bengal KB Nielsen, HP Bedi Environment and planning A 49 (10), 2324-2341, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Hindu nationalist statecraft and Modi's authoritarian populism KB Nielsen, AG Nilsen Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia, 92-100, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| ‘An activist can't become a politician’: social activism, leadership and the (un) making of a political career in an Indian state KB Nielsen Contemporary South Asia 20 (4), 435-453, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
