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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
51 Maya Angelou 184k 31.3 42.3% Author
52 Linus Torvalds 177k 25.7 8.7% Author
53 Jhumpa Lahiri 177k 36.7 28.6% Author
54 George R. R. Martin 173k 27.4 21.0% Author
55 Albert Camus 173k 26.9 44.4% Author
56 Isaac Asimov 171k 28.8 28.1% Author
57 Rahul Kanwal 164k 31.8 13.1% Author
58 Candace Owens 159k 33.4 36.8% Author
59 Napoleon Hill 158k 32.3 35.5% Author
60 Edgar Allan Poe 155k 28.0 32.2% Author
61 Enid Blyton 151k 32.0 33.8% Author
62 Trivikram Srinivas 148k 34.4 31.6% Author
63 Tariq Jameel 147k 32.1 12.9% Author
64 Dan Brown 143k 26.0 38.9% Author
65 Guru Ram Das 142k 34.8 21.9% Author
66 V. Ravichandran 141k 31.0 25.0% Author
67 Amitabh Bhattacharya 140k 31.2 19.9% Author
68 Confucius 132k 29.0 13.1% Author
69 Dale Carnegie 130k 34.2 23.2% Author
70 Rhonda Byrne 130k 46.4 36.1% Author
71 Ernest Hemingway 129k 27.9 43.8% Author
72 Devdutt Pattanaik 123k 34.5 28.7% Author
73 Jenna Coleman 117k 23.5 58.6% Author
74 Buzz Aldrin 115k 31.0 19.3% Author
75 Anton Chekhov 107k 27.1 34.6% 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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