| Elite parties, poor voters T Thachil Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 266 | 2014 |
| How clients select brokers: Competition and choice in India's slums AM Auerbach, T Thachil American Political Science Review 112 (4), 775-791, 2018 | 241 | 2018 |
| Elite parties and poor voters: Theory and evidence from India T Thachil American Political Science Review 108 (2), 454-477, 2014 | 146 | 2014 |
| Embedded mobilization: nonstate service provision as electoral strategy in India T Thachil World Politics 63 (3), 434-469, 2011 | 142 | 2011 |
| How does Covid-19 affect urban slums? Evidence from settlement leaders in India AM Auerbach, T Thachil World Development 140, 105304, 2021 | 80 | 2021 |
| Do rural migrants divide ethnically in the city? Evidence from an ethnographic experiment in India T Thachil American Journal of Political Science 61 (4), 908-926, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Ethnic parties and public spending: New theory and evidence from the Indian states T Thachil, E Teitelbaum Comparative Political Studies 48 (11), 1389-1420, 2015 | 50* | 2015 |
| Cultivating clients: reputation, responsiveness, and ethnic indifference in India's slums A Michael Auerbach, T Thachil American Journal of Political Science 64 (3), 471-487, 2020 | 47* | 2020 |
| Improving Surveys Through Ethnography: Insights from India’s Urban Periphery T Thachil Studies in Comparative International Development, 1-19, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Neoliberalism's two faces in Asia: Globalization, educational policies, and religious schooling in India, Pakistan, and Malaysia T Thachil Comparative Politics 41 (4), 473-494, 2009 | 36 | 2009 |
| Rethinking the study of electoral politics in the developing world: Reflections on the Indian case AM Auerbach, J Bussell, S Chauchard, FR Jensenius, G Nellis, ... Perspectives on Politics 20 (1), 250-264, 2022 | 35 | 2022 |
| Poor choices: De-alignment, development and Dalit/Adivasi voting patterns in Indian states T Thachil, R Herring Contemporary South Asia 16 (4), 441-464, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| Does police repression spur everyday cooperation? Evidence from urban India T Thachil The Journal of Politics 82 (4), 1474-1489, 2020 | 26* | 2020 |
| The saffron wave meets the silent revolution: Why the poor vote for Hindu nationalism in India T Thachil | 24 | 2009 |
| Migrants and machine politics: how India's urban poor seek representation and responsiveness T Thachil, AM Auerbach Princeton University Press, 2023 | 14* | 2023 |
| The strategic and moral imperatives of local engagement: Reflections on India T Thachil, M Vaishnav PS: Political Science & Politics 51 (3), 546-549, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Do policies matter in Indian elections? T Thachil Center for the Advanced Study of India. Available at: http://casi. ssc …, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| India’s election results were more than a Modi wave T Thachil The Washington Post, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Does Migration Alter Beliefs and Attitudes with Respect to Gender and Social Norms? AM Mobarak, ME Reimão, T Thachil Draft working paper, 2018 | 3 | 2018 |
| Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India's Small Town Councils AM Auerbach, T Thachil, S Singh American Political Science Review, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
