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
51 Candace Owens 163k 34.5 25.9% Author
52 Roald Dahl 159k 29.4 41.8% Author
53 George R. R. Martin 153k 27.4 21.0% Author
54 Paulo Coelho 151k 29.4 38.0% Author
55 V. Ravichandran 145k 31.0 25.0% Author
56 Maya Angelou 142k 31.3 42.3% Author
57 Trivikram Srinivas 142k 34.4 31.6% Author
58 Guru Ram Das 142k 34.8 21.9% Author
59 Confucius 136k 29.0 13.1% Author
60 Amitabh Bhattacharya 136k 31.2 19.9% Author
61 Albert Camus 135k 26.9 44.4% Author
62 Dale Carnegie 130k 34.2 23.2% Author
63 Tariq Jameel 128k 32.1 12.9% Author
64 Edgar Allan Poe 126k 28.0 32.2% Author
65 Buzz Aldrin 122k 31.0 19.3% Author
66 Devdutt Pattanaik 121k 34.5 28.7% Author
67 Dan Brown 120k 26.0 38.9% Author
68 Rhonda Byrne 119k 46.4 36.1% Author
69 Jenna Coleman 118k 23.5 58.6% Author
70 Enid Blyton 116k 32.0 33.8% Author
71 Alan Watts 108k 39.1 18.6% Author
72 Ernest Hemingway 104k 27.9 43.8% Author
73 Khaled Hosseini 103k 27.1 39.0% Author
74 Anton Chekhov 102k 27.1 34.6% Author
75 Isaac Asimov 99k 28.8 28.1% 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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