| We are the poors: Community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa A Desai NYU Press, 2002 | 784 | 2002 |
| We are the poors: Community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa A Desai NYU Press, 2002 | 768 | 2002 |
| We are the poors: Community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa A Desai NYU Press, 2002 | 768 | 2002 |
| Inside Indian indenture: A South African story A Desai, G Vahed Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2010 | 285 | 2010 |
| The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire A Desai, G Vahed Stanford University Press, 2015 | 201 | 2015 |
| Neoliberalism and resistance in South Africa.(Review of the Month). A Desai Monthly review 54 (8), 16-29, 2003 | 149 | 2003 |
| World Cup 2010: Africa's turn or the turn on Africa? A Desai, G Vahed South Africa and the Global Game, 154-167, 2013 | 124 | 2013 |
| ‘But we were thousands’: dispossession, resistance, repossession and repression in Mandela Park A Desai, R Pithouse Journal of Asian and African studies 39 (4), 239-269, 2004 | 99 | 2004 |
| The poors of Chatsworth: Race, class and social movements in post-apartheid South Africa A Desai Madiba Publishers, 2000 | 85 | 2000 |
| The poors of Chatsworth: Race, class and social movements in post-apartheid South Africa A Desai Madiba Publishers, 2000 | 85 | 2000 |
| ‘Uncomfortable collaborations’: contesting constructions of the ‘poor’in South Africa S Walsh, P Bond, A Desai, S Walsh Review of African political economy 35 (116), 255-279, 2008 | 81 | 2008 |
| ‘But we were thousands’: dispossession, resistance, repossession and repression in Mandela Park A Desai, R Pithouse Journal of Asian and African studies 39 (4), 239-269, 2004 | 78 | 2004 |
| The race to transform: sport in post-apartheid South Africa A Desai hsrc Press, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Blacks in whites: a century of cricket struggles in KwaZulu-Natal A Desai University of Kwazulu Natal Press, 2002 | 71 | 2002 |
| Arise ye coolies: Apartheid and the Indian 1960-1995 AG Desai Impact Africa Pub., 1996 | 71 | 1996 |
| Identity and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Indian South Africans G Vahed, A Desai Journal of Social Sciences 25 (1-3), 1-12, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Zuma's own goal: losing South Africa's' war on poverty' B Maharaj, A Desai, P Bond | 57 | 2010 |
| Xenophobia and the of the refugee in the rainbow nation of human rights A Desai African Sociological Review/Revue Africaine de Sociologie 12 (2), 2008 | 50 | 2008 |
| 6. Uneven and Combined Marxism within South Africa’s Urban Social Movements P Bond, A Desai, T Ngwane Marxism and social movements, 233-255, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| South Africa and the global order: the structural conditioning of a transition to democracy A Habib, D Pillay, A Desai Journal of Contemporary African Studies 16 (1), 95-115, 1998 | 42 | 1998 |
