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| Lying on the postcolonial couch: The idea of indifference RB Nair U of Minnesota Press, 2002 | 86 | 2002 |
| Translation, text and theory: the paradigm of India RB Nair (No Title), 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
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| Clines of metaphoricity, and creative metaphors as situated risk-taking RB Nair, R Carter, M Toolan Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 17 (1), 20-40, 1988 | 29 | 1988 |
| Text and Pre-Text: History as Gossip in Rushdie's Novels RB Nair Economic and Political Weekly, 994-1000, 1989 | 26 | 1989 |
| The Pedigree of the White Stallion: Postcoloniality and Literary History RB Nair The Uses of Literary History, 159-86, 1995 | 25 | 1995 |
| Poetry in a Time of Terror: Essays in the postcolonial preternatural RB Nair (No Title), 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| Telling lies: Some literary and other violations of Grice’s maxim of quality RB Nair Nottingham Linguistic Circular 14, 53-71, 1985 | 24 | 1985 |
| The nature of narrative: Schemes, genes, memes, dreams and screams! RB Nair Religious narrative, cognition and culture: Image and word in the mind of …, 2011 | 22 | 2011 |
| Salman Rushdie: The migrant in the metropolis RB Nair, R Bhattacharya Taylor & Francis Group 4 (11), 17-30, 1990 | 22 | 1990 |
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| 24 Language and youth culture RB Nair Language in South Asia, 466, 2008 | 19 | 2008 |
| Acts of agency and acts of God: Discourse of disaster in a post-colonial society RB Nair Economic and Political Weekly, 535-542, 1997 | 16 | 1997 |
| Major and minor pests of arecanut crop, Areca catechu Linn RB Nair, R Menon Arecanut Journal 14, 139-147, 1963 | 14 | 1963 |
| The crosslinguistic acquisition of sentence structure: Computational modeling and grammaticality judgments from adult and child speakers of English, Japanese, Hindi, Hebrew and … B Ambridge, R Maitreyee, T Tatsumi, L Doherty, S Zicherman, PM Pedro, ... Cognition 202, 104310, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Keywords for India: A conceptual lexicon for the 21st century RB Nair, PR DeSouza Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Thinking out of the Story Box: Creative Writing and Narrative Culture in South Asia RB Nair Text 15 (Special 10), 1-19, 2011 | 12 | 2011 |
| Yudhishthira’s lie: The fiction of India RB Nair Poetiques Comparatistes/Comparative Poetics 2010, 227-242, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
