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
76 Durjoy Datta 97k 23.2 46.6% Author
77 Emily Dickinson 94k 24.3 59.7% Author
78 Rahul Kanwal 93k 31.8 13.1% Author
79 Paul the Apostle 88k 31.4 20.5% Author
80 J. R. R. Tolkien 86k 29.2 33.6% Author
81 Arthur Conan Doyle 80k 30.2 26.4% Author
82 Robin Sharma 76k 26.8 40.7% Author
83 Sidney Sheldon 72k 33.1 31.6% Author
84 Ravinder Singh (author) 71k 24.9 50.5% Author
85 Simone de Beauvoir 70k 28.4 43.8% Author
86 Harriet Tubman 70k 46.6 67.7% Author
87 Radhanath Swami 66k 33.9 35.6% Author
88 Jean-Paul Sartre 65k 32.5 28.7% Author
89 Harlan Coben 63k 25.9 35.7% Author
90 H. G. Wells 62k 30.6 24.3% Author
91 Dr. Seuss 57k 31.1 42.6% Author
92 George Eliot 57k 31.3 28.7% Author
93 Charles Bukowski 56k 24.6 45.3% Author
94 Neil Gaiman 56k 29.3 43.7% Author
95 Ram Dass 52k 38.1 46.0% Author
96 Osamu Dazai 52k 24.6 44.7% Author
97 Margaret Atwood 52k 29.8 29.3% Author
98 Jeffrey Archer 51k 32.3 31.7% Author
99 Ian Fleming 50k 31.6 18.3% Author
100 Taslima Nasrin 48k 33.8 12.2% 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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