| Living the body: Embodiment, womanhood and identity in contemporary India M Thapan SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009 | 147 | 2009 |
| Life at school: An ethnographic study M Thapan | 133 | 2006 |
| Embodiment and identity in contemporary society: Femina and the ‘new’Indian woman M Thapan Contributions to Indian sociology 38 (3), 411-444, 2004 | 132 | 2004 |
| Embodiment: essays on gender and indentity M Thapan (No Title), 1997 | 110 | 1997 |
| Transnational migration and the politics of identity M Thapan Sage, 2005 | 94 | 2005 |
| Ethnographies of schooling in contemporary India M Thapan (No Title), 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| Adolescence, embodiment and gender identity in contemporary India: Elite women in a changing society M Thapan Women's Studies International Forum 24 (3-4), 359-371, 2001 | 62 | 2001 |
| Gender, body and everyday life M Thapan Social Scientist, 32-58, 1995 | 48 | 1995 |
| Anthropological journeys: reflections on fieldwork M Thapan Orient Blackswan, 1998 | 38 | 1998 |
| Introduction,“‘Making Incomplete’: Identity, Women, and the State,” M Thapan Transnational migration and the politics of identity, 23-62, 2005 | 37 | 2005 |
| Marriage, well-being, and agency among women M Thapan Gender & Development 11 (2), 77-84, 2003 | 36 | 2003 |
| Images of the Body and Sexuality in Women's Narratives on Oppression in the Home M Thapan Economic and Political Weekly, WS72-WS80, 1995 | 36 | 1995 |
| Introduction: Gender and embodiment in everyday life M Thapan Embodiment: Essays on gender and identity, 1-34, 1997 | 35 | 1997 |
| Series introduction M Thapan Migrant Women and Work, Women and migration in Asia 4, 7-17, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| Adolescence, embodiment and gender identity: Elite women in a changing society M Thapan Urban women in contemporary India: A reader, 31-45, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| J. Krish Namu Rti (1895–1986) M Thapan Prospects 31, 253-265, 2001 | 23 | 2001 |
| Femininity and its Discontents. The Woman’s Body in Intimate Relationships’ M Thapan Embodiment: Essays on gender and identity, 172-93, 1997 | 23 | 1997 |
| Forms of discourse: A typology of teachers and commitment M Thapan British journal of sociology of education 7 (4), 415-431, 1986 | 22 | 1986 |
| Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a dual context: Essays from India and France R Lardinois, M Thapan Taylor & Francis, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Women's mobility and migration: Muslim women migrants in Jamia Nagar, Delhi M Thapan, A Singh, N Sreekumar Economic and Political Weekly, 96-104, 2014 | 20 | 2014 |
