| Area impossible: Notes toward an introduction A Arondekar, G Patel GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 22 (2), 151-171, 2016 | 111 | 2016 |
| Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry G Patel Stanford University Press, 2002 | 74 | 2002 |
| Risky subjects: Insurance, sexuality, and capital G Patel Social Text 24 (4), 25-65, 2006 | 68 | 2006 |
| On Fire: Sexuality and Its Incitements G Patel Queering India, 222-233, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| Home, homo, hybrid: translating gender G Patel College Literature 24 (1), 133-150, 1997 | 52 | 1997 |
| Homely housewives run amok: Lesbians in marital fixes G Patel Public Culture 16 (1), 131-157, 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
| Imagining risk, care and security: Insurance and fantasy G Patel Anthropological Theory 7 (1), 99-118, 2007 | 45 | 2007 |
| Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance G Patel University of Washington Press, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Ghostly appearances: Time tales tallied up G Patel Social Text 18 (3), 47-66, 2000 | 23 | 2000 |
| Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies AR Arondekar, G Patel Duke University Press, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Marking the quilt: Veil, harem/home, and the subversion of colonial civility G Patel Colby Quarterly 37 (2), 7, 2001 | 18 | 2001 |
| Advertisements, proprietary heterosexuality, and hundis: Postcolonial finance, nation-state formations, and the new idealized family G Patel Rethinking Marxism 24 (4), 516-535, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| Home, homo, hybrid: Translating gender G Patel A companion to postcolonial studies, 410, 2000 | 16 | 2000 |
| An Uncivil Woman: Ismat Chughtai G Patel Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2001 | 15 | 2001 |
| Tracking ‘Same–Sex Love’from Antiquity to the Present in South Asia RM George, I Chatterjee, G Gopinath, CM Naim, G Patel, R Vanita Gender & History 14 (1), 7-30, 2002 | 11 | 2002 |
| Vernacular Missing: Miraji on Sappho, Gender, and Governance G Patel Comparative Literature 70 (2), 132-144, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media G Patel Science, Finance, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Islam and capital, mortared by trust: the case of Sri Lanka GH Patel Society and Business Review 12 (3), 373-394, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Trial by Fire: a local/global view G Patel Gay Community News 24 (2), 10-17, 1998 | 5 | 1998 |
| Risky lives G Patel The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India …, 2007 | 4 | 2007 |
