Top 50 Authors in India

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 608 authors tracked in India, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami Vivekananda and Shashi Tharoor lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 9,635,934 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 678,835, and the largest, Jawaharlal Nehru, reaches around 3,483,718 people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Jawaharlal Nehru	3,483,718	91.8%	Author	Politics & Society
2	Swami Vivekananda	3,467,140	94.2%	Author	Politics & Society
3	Shashi Tharoor	2,685,076	84.4%	Author	Politics & Society
4	William Shakespeare	1,668,859	16.2%	Author	Literature
5	Sudha Murthy	1,580,043	96.2%	Author	Literature
6	Premchand	1,338,792	99.3%	Author	Literature
7	Anne Frank	1,227,581	7.7%	Author	Politics & Society
8	Javed Akhtar	1,185,884	77.5%	Author	Literature
9	Ruskin Bond	1,067,164	97.5%	Author	Literature
10	Charles Darwin	1,067,156	9.7%	Author	Business & Career
11	Florence Nightingale	912,223	10.0%	Author	Politics & Society
12	Chanakya	785,572	90.1%	Author	Politics & Society
13	Helen Keller	774,444	7.5%	Author	Literature
14	Arundhati Roy	766,656	55.0%	Author	Literature
15	Jiddu Krishnamurti	697,903	64.6%	Author	Literature
16	Chetan Bhagat	601,686	84.4%	Author	Literature
17	Malala Yousafzai	533,633	12.1%	Author	Politics & Society
18	Franz Kafka	517,203	7.9%	Author	Literature
19	Salman Rushdie	515,630	16.9%	Author	Literature
20	Ramana Maharshi	482,308	60.9%	Author	Literature
21	Shailesh Lodha	434,276	97.2%	Author	Movies & TV
22	George Orwell	419,806	6.1%	Author	Literature
23	Jane Austen	414,652	3.6%	Author	Literature
24	Jaggi Vasudev	396,716	70.5%	Author	Literature
25	Oscar Wilde	369,418	4.5%	Author	Literature
26	Stephen King	367,952	2.0%	Author	Literature
27	colleen hoover	367,334	5.6%	Author	Literature
28	Agatha Christie	349,844	3.9%	Author	Literature
29	Jane Goodall	338,574	2.0%	Author	Pets & Animals
30	Jordan Belfort	312,956	5.2%	Author	Business & Career
31	Rajneesh	305,310	42.1%	Author	Politics & Society
32	Noam Chomsky	294,935	6.6%	Author	Literature
33	Sivananda Saraswati	285,201	79.0%	Author	Literature
34	Virginia Woolf	280,570	6.0%	Author	Literature
35	Guru Arjan	276,828	80.9%	Author	Politics & Society
36	Pablo Neruda	273,059	9.9%	Author	Literature
37	Heather Graham	256,809	4.6%	Author	Literature
38	Amal Clooney	254,789	3.1%	Author	Politics & Society
39	Roald Dahl	239,345	3.9%	Author	Literature
40	Maya Angelou	235,753	5.1%	Author	Literature
41	Paulo Coelho	231,499	4.8%	Author	Literature
42	Raghuram Rajan	228,805	86.9%	Author	Literature
43	Ramesh Aravind	228,519	95.9%	Author	Literature
44	Charles Dickens	213,118	4.2%	Author	Literature
45	Albert Camus	211,828	4.6%	Author	Literature
46	Neil Gaiman	208,636	2.0%	Author	Literature
47	Rudyard Kipling	208,015	10.8%	Author	Literature
48	Isaac Asimov	199,507	6.8%	Author	Literature
49	Paramahansa Yogananda	190,655	27.1%	Author	Literature
50	Caroline Kennedy	188,410	2.5%	Author	Politics & Society