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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
76 Durjoy Datta 105k 23.2 46.6% Author
77 Emily Dickinson 102k 24.3 59.7% Author
78 Arthur Conan Doyle 101k 30.2 26.4% Author
79 Khaled Hosseini 98k 27.1 39.0% Author
80 J. R. R. Tolkien 93k 29.2 33.6% Author
81 Paul the Apostle 88k 31.4 20.5% Author
82 Simone de Beauvoir 83k 28.4 43.8% Author
83 Robin Sharma 80k 26.8 40.7% Author
84 Jean-Paul Sartre 80k 32.5 28.7% Author
85 Neil Gaiman 79k 29.3 43.7% Author
86 Sidney Sheldon 72k 33.1 31.6% Author
87 Charles Bukowski 71k 24.6 45.3% Author
88 Ravinder Singh (author) 70k 24.9 50.5% Author
89 Dr. Seuss 70k 31.1 42.6% Author
90 Harriet Tubman 69k 46.6 67.7% Author
91 Margaret Atwood 68k 29.8 29.3% Author
92 Alan Watts 67k 39.1 18.6% Author
93 H. G. Wells 63k 30.6 24.3% Author
94 Radhanath Swami 63k 33.9 35.6% Author
95 Sally Rooney 62k 33.0 28.3% Author
96 George Eliot 60k 31.3 28.7% Author
97 Taslima Nasrin 57k 33.8 12.2% Author
98 Ian Fleming 56k 31.6 18.3% Author
99 Ram Dass 54k 38.1 46.0% Author
100 Osamu Dazai 53k 24.6 44.7% 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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