| Son preference: Sex selection, gender and culture in South Asia NK Purewal Berg, 2010 | 135 | 2010 |
| Between returns and respectability: parental attitudes towards girls’ education in rural Punjab, Pakistan N Purewal, N Hashmi British Journal of Sociology of Education 36 (7), 977-995, 2015 | 58 | 2015 |
| The bio-politics of population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India L Eklund, N Purewal Feminism & Psychology 27 (1), 34-55, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Gender, violence and the neoliberal state in India K Wilson, J Ung Loh, N Purewal Feminist Review 119 (1), 1-6, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| The Indo-Pak border: Displacements, aggressions and transgressions N Purewal Contemporary South Asia 12 (4), 539-556, 2003 | 38 | 2003 |
| Women's ‘popular’practices as critique: Vernacular religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab NK Purewal, VS Kalra Women's studies international forum 33 (4), 383-389, 2010 | 29 | 2010 |
| Re-producing South Asian wom (b) en: Female feticide and the spectacle of culture T Purewal South Asian women in the diaspora, 137-156, 2020 | 28 | 2020 |
| The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab P Singh, NK Purewal Contemporary South Asia 21 (2), 133-147, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Sex selective abortion, neoliberal patriarchy and structural violence in India N Purewal Feminist Review 119 (1), 20-38, 2018 | 27 | 2018 |
| SIKH/MUSLIM BHAI-BHAI? Towards a social history of the rabābī tradition of shabad kīrtan NK Purewal Sikh Formations 7 (3), 365-382, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
| The strut of the peacock: Partition, travel and the Indo-Pak border VS Kalra, N Purewal Zed Books, 1999 | 25 | 1999 |
| ‘Gendercide’, abortion policy, and the disciplining of prenatal sex-selection in neoliberal Europe N Purewal, L Eklund Global Public Health 13 (6), 724-741, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Disciplining the sex ratio: exploring the governmentality of female foeticide in India N Purewal Identities 21 (5), 466-480, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Sikh Kirtan in the Diaspora: Identity, Innovation, and Revivalism NK Purewal, HS Lallie Sikh Diaspora, 381-403, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| New roots for rights: Women's responses to population and development policies N Purewal, S Linkogle Women Resist Globalization: Movements for Livelihoods & Rights, 2001 | 18 | 2001 |
| Coloniality and feminist collusion: Breaking free, thinking anew NK Purewal, J Ung Loh Feminist Review 128 (1), 1-12, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan VS Kalra, NK Purewal Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post‐Beijing Platform for Action N Purewal IDS Bulletin 46 (4), 47-53, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| Living on the margins: Social access to shelter in urban South Asia NK Purewal Routledge, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Pakistan's religious Others: Reflections on the minority discourse on Christians in the Punjab T Kamran, NK Purewal State and nation-building in Pakistan, 180-191, 2015 | 9 | 2015 |
