| Toward a comparative history of borderlands M Baud, W Van Schendel Journal of world history, 211-242, 1997 | 998 | 1997 |
| The Making of Ilicitness I Abraham, W van Schendel Indiana University Press, 2005 | 993* | 2005 |
| Geographies of knowing, geographies of ignorance: jumping scale in Southeast Asia W Van Schendel Locating Southeast Asia, 275-307, 2005 | 954 | 2005 |
| A history of Bangladesh W van Schendel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 704* | 2009 |
| The Bengal borderland: Beyond state and nation in South Asia W van Schendel Anthem Press, 2005 | 652* | 2005 |
| Spaces of engagement: How borderlands, illegal flows, and territorial states interlock W van Schendel Indiana University Press, 2006 | 244 | 2006 |
| The invention of the ‘Jummas’: State formation and ethnicity in Southeastern Bangladesh W Van Schendel Modern Asian Studies 26 (1), 95-128, 1992 | 224 | 1992 |
| Stateless in South Asia: the making of the India-Bangladesh enclaves W Van Schendel The Journal of Asian Studies 61 (1), 115-147, 2002 | 213 | 2002 |
| Peasant mobility: the odds of life in rural Bangladesh W van Schendel Assen, Van Gorcum, 1981 | 165 | 1981 |
| 'I Am Not A Refugee': Rethinking Partition Migration? W van Schendel, MM Rahman Modern Asian Studies 37 (3), 551-584, 2003 | 159* | 2003 |
| The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland W van Schendel, W Mey, AK Dewan White Lotus, 2000 | 131 | 2000 |
| The dangers of belonging: Tribes, indigenous peoples and homelands in South Asia W Van Schendel The politics of belonging in India, 19-43, 2011 | 105 | 2011 |
| Asian borderlands: Introducing their permeability, strategic uses and meanings W Van Schendel, E De Maaker Journal of Borderlands Studies 29 (1), 3-9, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
| Labour Migration and Human Trafficking W van Schendel, L Lyons, M Ford Routledge, 2012 | 86* | 2012 |
| Three deltas: accumulation and poverty in rural Burma, Bengal and South India. W van Schendel Three deltas: accumulation and poverty in rural Burma, Bengal and South India., 1991 | 81 | 1991 |
| The camera as witness JLK Pachuau, W Van Schendel Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| Introduction: The making of illicitness W Van Schendel, I Abraham Illicit flows and criminal things: States, borders, and the other side of …, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| Working through partition: Making a living in the Bengal borderlands W Van Schendel International Review of Social History 46 (3), 393-421, 2001 | 67 | 2001 |
| Introduction: Nonrecording states between legibility and looking away B Kalir, W Van Schendel Focaal 2017 (77), 1-7, 2017 | 63 | 2017 |
| Ethnicity and democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing democracy T Harris, W van Schendel, M Chettri Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland, 1-178, 2017 | 53 | 2017 |
