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Top 100 Authors in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest authors in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 603 authors tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Swami Vivekananda, Jawaharlal Nehru and Shashi Tharoor lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 10M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 374k, and the largest, Swami Vivekananda, reaches around 4.2M 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.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Agatha Christie 309k 25.2 37.7% Author
27 Oscar Wilde 308k 29.4 15.5% Author
28 Pāṇini 305k 30.4 19.4% Author
29 Rajneesh 293k 36.3 22.6% Author
30 Jordan Belfort 290k 33.8 36.3% Author
31 Noam Chomsky 289k 37.9 34.4% Author
32 colleen hoover 276k 25.8 55.8% Author
33 Deepak Chopra 273k 28.5 35.9% Author
34 Guru Arjan 271k 35.1 24.3% Author
35 Pablo Neruda 265k 40.7 40.7% Author
36 Sivananda Saraswati 259k 38.6 26.2% Author
37 Heather Graham 257k 34.3 77.1% Author
38 Amal Clooney 237k 28.2 54.9% Author
39 Virginia Woolf 224k 30.5 40.9% Author
40 Raghuram Rajan 217k 34.4 16.5% Author
41 Charles Dickens 208k 27.7 37.7% Author
42 Ramesh Aravind 202k 30.6 27.2% Author
43 Rudyard Kipling 202k 27.4 27.2% Author
44 Roald Dahl 196k 29.4 41.8% Author
45 Simon Sinek 193k 33.7 39.0% Author
46 Caroline Kennedy 188k 56.2 86.8% Author
47 Pu La Deshpande 188k 36.6 29.8% Author
48 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 185k 40.6 27.9% Author
49 Paulo Coelho 184k 29.4 38.0% Author
50 Paramahansa Yogananda 184k 39.6 25.5% Author

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each author by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest author in India?

Swami Vivekananda currently leads with an estimated audience of 4.2M people in India.

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