| Race, caste and tribe in central India: The early origins of Indian anthropometry C Bates The concept of race in South Asia, 219-59, 1995 | 300 | 1995 |
| The concept of race in South Asia P Robb Oxford University Press, 1995 | 205 | 1995 |
| Indigenous peoples of Asia RH Barnes, A Gray, B Kingsbury (No Title), 1995 | 128 | 1995 |
| Lost innocents and the loss of innocence: Interpreting Adivasi movements in South Asia C Bates Indigenous peoples of Asia, 1995 | 106 | 1995 |
| Community, empire and migration: South Asians in diaspora C Bates Orient Blackswan, 2003 | 86 | 2003 |
| Subalterns and Raj C Bates South Asia since 1600, 2007 | 84 | 2007 |
| The hidden story of partition and its legacies C Bates BBC history 3, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
| Tribal migration in India and beyond C Bates, M Carter The world of the rural labourer in colonial India, 1992 | 51 | 1992 |
| Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Documents of the Indian Uprising C Bates, M Carter SAGE Publications India, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Regional dependence and rural development in central India: the pivotal role of migrant labour CN Bates Modern Asian Studies 19 (3), 573-592, 1985 | 43 | 1985 |
| Some thoughts on the representation and misrepresentation of the colonial South Asian labour diaspora C Bates South Asian Studies 33 (1), 7-22, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Coerced and migrant labourers in India: The colonial experience C Bates Edinburgh Papers in South Asian Studies 13, 2000 | 40 | 2000 |
| Conjuring images of India in nineteenth-century Britain P Lamont, C Bates Social History 32 (3), 308-324, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Savage attack: Tribal insurgency in India C Bates, A Shah Taylor & Francis, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| The nature of social change in rural Gujarat: The Kheda District, 1818–1918 CN Bates Modern Asian Studies 15 (4), 771-821, 1981 | 37 | 1981 |
| Beyond representation: colonial and postcolonial constructions of Indian identity C Bates Oxford University Press, 2006 | 34 | 2006 |
| New routes for diaspora studies S Banerjee, A McGuinness, SC McKay Indiana University Press, 2012 | 29 | 2012 |
| Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration C Bates, M Carter Modern Asian Studies 51 (2), 462-484, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| The Development of Panchayati Raj in India C Bates Rethinking Indian political institutions, 169-184, 2005 | 27 | 2005 |
| Tribal and indentured migrants in colonial India: modes of recruitment and forms of incorporation C Bates, M Carter Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in India, 1994 | 27 | 1994 |
Marina CarterResearcherVerified email at ed.ac.uk
