| The princes of India in the endgame of empire, 1917-1947 I Copland Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 319 | 2002 |
| The British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857-1930 I Copland (No Title), 1982 | 139 | 1982 |
| Christianity as an arm of empire: The ambiguous case of India under the Company, c. 1813–1858 I Copland The Historical Journal 49 (4), 1025-1054, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| The Master and the Maharajas: The Sikh Princes and the East Punjab Massacres of 1947 I Copland Modern Asian Studies 36 (3), 657-704, 2002 | 70 | 2002 |
| The further shores of partition: Ethnic cleansing in Rajasthan 1947 I Copland Past & Present, 203-239, 1998 | 68 | 1998 |
| Islam and political mobilization in Kashmir, 1931-34 I Copland Pacific Affairs, 228-259, 1981 | 61 | 1981 |
| India 1885-1947: The Unmaking of an Empire I Copland Routledge, 2014 | 58 | 2014 |
| State, community and neighbourhood in princely North India, c. 1900-1950 I Copland Springer, 2005 | 54 | 2005 |
| A history of state and religion in India I Copland, I Mabbett, A Roy, K Brittlebank, A Bowles Routledge, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
| ‘Communalism’in Princely India: The Case of Hyderabad, 1930–1940 I Copland Modern Asian Studies 22 (4), 783-814, 1988 | 50 | 1988 |
| The princely states, the Muslim league, and the partition of India in 1947 I Copland The International History Review 13 (1), 38-69, 1991 | 43 | 1991 |
| The Maharaja of Kolhapur and the Non-Brahmin Movement 1902-10 I Copland Modern Asian Studies 7 (2), 209-225, 1973 | 38 | 1973 |
| Hindu nationalism and governance J McGuire, I Copland (No Title), 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| The Abdullah factor: Kashmiri Muslims and the crisis of 1947 I Copland The political inheritance of Pakistan, 218-254, 1991 | 28 | 1991 |
| The other guardians: ideology and performance in the Indian Political Service I Copland, R Jeffrey People, Princes and Paramount Power: society and politics in the Indian …, 1978 | 25 | 1978 |
| Revenue farming in comparative perspective: reflections on taxation, social structure and development in the early-modern period I Copland, MR Godley The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of …, 1993 | 24 | 1993 |
| The Baroda Crisis of 1873–77: A Study in Governmental Rivalry IFS Copland Modern Asian Studies 2 (2), 97-123, 1968 | 24 | 1968 |
| The limits of hegemony: Elite responses to nineteenth-century imperial and missionary acculturation strategies in India I Copland Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 (3), 637-665, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| What to do about cows? Princely versus British approaches to a South Asian dilemma I Copland Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68 (1), 59-76, 2005 | 22 | 2005 |
| Lord Mountbatten and the integration of the Indian states: A reappraisal I Copland The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 21 (2), 385-408, 1993 | 20 | 1993 |
