| Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India: Culture, identity and politics B Narayan SAGE Publications India, 2006 | 204 | 2006 |
| Fascinating Hindutva: saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation B Narayan SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009 | 137 | 2009 |
| The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950–Present B Narayan Oxford University Press, 2011 | 92 | 2011 |
| Inventing caste history: Dalit mobilisation and nationalist past B Narayan Contributions to Indian Sociology 38 (1-2), 193-220, 2004 | 58 | 2004 |
| Culture and emotional economy of migration B Narayan Routledge India, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| Heroes, histories and booklets B Narayan Economic and Political Weekly, 3923-3934, 2001 | 30 | 2001 |
| Kanshiram: leader of the dalits B Narayan Penguin UK, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| Demarginalisation and history: Dalit re-invention of the past B Narayan South Asia Research 28 (2), 169-184, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| Modi’s modus operandi in the 2014 elections B Narayan Economic and Political Weekly 49 (20), 12-14, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| National past and political present B Narayan Economic and Political Weekly, 3533-3540, 2004 | 20 | 2004 |
| Memories, saffronising statues and constructing communal politics B Narayan Economic and Political Weekly, 4695-4701, 2006 | 15 | 2006 |
| Democracy and identity politics in India: Is it a snake or a rope B Narayan Economic and Political Weekly 1 (16), 61-65, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Contribution to the bryoflora of Great Himalayan National Park, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh I B Narayan, PV Karunakaran, DK Singh Indian Journal of Forestry 24, 265-278, 2001 | 12 | 2001 |
| Fractured Tales: Invisibles in Indian Democracy B Narayan | 10* | 2016 |
| Honour, Violence and Conflicting Narratives: A Study Of Myth And Reality B Narayan New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 5, 5-23, 2003 | 10 | 2003 |
| DomiNation: How the fragments imagine the nation: Perspectives from some north indian villages B Narayan Dialectical anthropology 29 (1), 123-140, 2005 | 9 | 2005 |
| Popular culture and 1857: a memory against forgetting B Narayan Social Scientist, 86-94, 1998 | 9 | 1998 |
| History Produces Politics: The" Nara-Maveshi" Movement in Uttar Pradesh B Narayan Economic and Political Weekly, 111-119, 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| Documenting Dissent B Narayan Life as a Dalit: Views from the Bottom on Caste in India, 316, 2013 | 7* | 2013 |
| Reactivating the Past: Dalits and Memories of 1857 BN Tiwari Economic and Political Weekly, 1734-1738, 2007 | 7 | 2007 |
