Popularity ranking · India

The 100 most popular 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 604 authors tracked in India, the 100 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 8.9M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 331k, and the largest, Jawaharlal Nehru, reaches around 3.4M 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 Deepak Chopra 268k 28.5 35.9% Author
27 George Orwell 267k 28.8 32.3% Author
28 Heather Graham 263k 34.3 77.1% Author
29 Oscar Wilde 258k 29.4 15.5% Author
30 Agatha Christie 257k 25.2 37.7% Author
31 Sivananda Saraswati 250k 38.6 26.2% Author
32 Jordan Belfort 250k 33.8 36.3% Author
33 Noam Chomsky 246k 37.9 34.4% Author
34 Guru Arjan 246k 35.1 24.3% Author
35 Raghuram Rajan 216k 34.4 16.5% Author
36 colleen hoover 214k 25.8 55.8% Author
37 Charles Dickens 202k 27.7 37.7% Author
38 Pablo Neruda 200k 40.7 40.7% Author
39 Ramesh Aravind 199k 30.6 27.2% Author
40 Rudyard Kipling 193k 27.4 27.2% Author
41 Caroline Kennedy 191k 56.2 86.8% Author
42 Simon Sinek 190k 33.7 39.0% Author
43 Linus Torvalds 181k 25.7 8.7% Author
44 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 179k 40.6 27.9% Author
45 Paramahansa Yogananda 176k 39.6 25.5% Author
46 Amal Clooney 174k 28.2 54.9% Author
47 Jhumpa Lahiri 172k 36.7 28.6% Author
48 Virginia Woolf 172k 30.5 40.9% Author
49 Napoleon Hill 171k 32.3 35.5% Author
50 Pu La Deshpande 170k 36.6 29.8% Author

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular authors 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?

Jawaharlal Nehru currently leads with an estimated audience of 3.4M people in India.

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