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| Author | Books / Works |
|---|---|
| Aryabhatta | Aryabhatiyam, Surya Siddhanta |
| Ashvaghosha | Buddhacharita |
| Banabhatta | Harshacharita, Kadambari |
| Bharatamuni | Natya Shastra |
| Bhavabhuti | Mahavira Charita, Malati Madhava, Uttara Ramacharita |
| Bhasa | Svapnavasavadattam, Madhyamavyayoga, Pratima Natakam |
| Bhaskara II | Siddhanta Shiromani, Lilavati |
| Charak | Charaka Samhita |
| Dandin | Dashakumaracharita, Kavyadarsha |
| Harshavardhana | Priyadarshika, Nagananda, Ratnavali |
| Jayadeva | Geet Govindam |
| Kautilya | Arthashastra |
| Kalidasa | Abhijnana Shakuntalam, Vikramorvasiyam, Raghuvansham, Ritusamhara, Meghasandesam, Kumarasambhavam, Malavikagnimitram |
| Kalhana | Rajatarangini |
| Kshemendra | Brihatkathamanjari, Ramayanamanjari |
| Megasthenes | Indica |
| Panini | Ashtadhyayi |
| Patanjali | Mahabhashya |
| Varahamihira | Panchasiddhantika, Brihat Samhita, Brihat Jataka, Anga Vidya |
| Vagbhata | Ashtanga Sangraha, Ashtanga Hridayam |
| Vishakhadatta | Mudrarakshasa |
| Author | Books / Works |
|---|---|
| Aurobindo Ghosh | Life Divine, Essays on the Gita, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol |
| Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | Anandamath, Durgesh Nandini, Kapalkundala, Vande Mataram, Devi Chaudharani, Vishabriksha, Mrinalini |
| Bhagat Singh | Why I am an Atheist, Bhagat Singh Jail Diary |
| Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | The Annihilation of Caste, Waiting for a Visa, The Buddha and His Dhamma, Who Were the Shudras?, Pakistan and Partition of India |
| Indira Gandhi | My Truth, Peoples and Problems |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History |
| K.M. Munshi | The Glory of Patan, Rajadhroj |
| L.K. Advani | My Country My Life |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Unhappy India, The Political Future of India, Young India, Call to the Young India, England's Debt to India |
| Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | India Wins Freedom |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Hind Swaraj, Sarvodaya, My Life is My Message, Satyagraha in South Africa, My Experiments with Truth |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad | India Divided, At the Feet of Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi and Bihar, Satyagraha in Champaran |
| Raja Rammohan Roy | The Precepts of Jesus, Vedanta Grantha, Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin |
| S. Jaishankar | Why Bharat Matters, The India Way |
| Narendra Modi | Exam Warriors, Jyotipunj, Abode of Love |
| Draupadi Murmu | Wings to Our Hopes |
| Arvind Kejriwal | Swaraj |
| Author | Books / Works |
|---|---|
| Anita Desai | In Custody |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things, The End of Imagination, Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction |
| Chetan Bhagat | Half Girlfriend, Two States, 400 Days, One Arranged Murder, One Indian Girl |
| Sarojini Naidu | Golden Threshold, Broken Wing |
| Shashi Tharoor | The Great Indian Novel, Ambedkar: A Life, The Paradoxical Prime Minister, Why I am a Hindu, An Era of Darkness (UK) / Inglorious Empire (India) |
| Author | Book |
|---|---|
| Abhinav Bindra | A Shot at History |
| Adarsh Sharma | M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story |
| Dipa Karmakar (with Vishwaswari Nandi) | The Small Wonder |
| Gundappa Viswanath | Wrist Assured |
| Kapil Dev | Straight from the Heart |
| Mary Kom | Unbreakable |
| Milkha Singh | The Race of My Life |
| Pullela Gopichand (with Priya Kumar) | Shuttler's Flick |
| P.T. Usha | Golden Girl: An Autobiography |
| Ravichandran Ashwin & Sidharth Monga | I Have the Streets: A Kutty Cricket Story |
| Ravi Shastri | Stargazing – The Players in My Life |
| Sourav Ganguly | A Century is Not Enough |
| Syed Kirmani | Stumped |
| Sanjay Manjrekar | Imperfect |
| Sunil Gavaskar | Sunny Days |
| Saina Nehwal | Playing to Win |
| Sania Mirza | Ace Against Odds |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Playing it My Way |
| VVS Laxman | 281 and Beyond |
| Vijay Lokapally | Driven: The Virat Kohli Story |
| Yuvraj Singh | The Test of My Life |
| Author | Books / Works |
|---|---|
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata, Plutus, The Clouds |
| Barack Obama | A Promised Land, Yes We Can, The Audacity of Hope, Dreams from My Father |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations, Bleak House |
| E.M. Forster | A Passage to India, Howards End |
| Euripides | Medea, Hippolytus |
| Erasmus | Praise of Folly |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm, 1984, Burmese Days |
| Hitler | Mein Kampf |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland |
| Karl Marx | Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology, The Poverty of Philosophy |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace, Anna Karenina |
| Machiavelli | The Prince |
| Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses, Amores |
| Petronius | Satyricon |
| Rousseau | The Social Contract |
| Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Victory City, The Golden House |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved, The Bluest Eye |
| Thomas More | Utopia |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita, Pale Fire |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Othello, Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, As You Like It |
| Author | Autobiography / Book |
|---|---|
| APJ Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire |
| Anne Frank | Diary of a Young Girl |
| Angela Merkel | Freedom |
| Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | Waiting for a Visa |
| Dr. Rajendra Prasad | Autobiography |
| Dalai Lama | Freedom in Exile |
| George Orwell | Such, Such Were the Joys |
| I.K. Gujral | Matters of Discretion |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | An Autobiography |
| J.B. Kripalani | My Times: An Autobiography |
| J.D. Vance | Hillbilly Elegy |
| K. Natwar Singh | One Life is Not Enough |
| Leo Tolstoy | Childhood, Boyhood and Youth; A Confession |
| Maxim Gorky | My Childhood |
| Mahatma Gandhi | The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Melinda Gates | The Next Day |
| Michelle Obama | Becoming |
| Malala Yousafzai | I am Malala |
| Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri | The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
| Ravi Shankar | My Music My Life |
| Satyajit Ray | Jakhan Chhoto Chilam (Bengali) — When I was a Kid |
| Sharad Pawar | On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power |
| Sonu Sood | I Am No Messiah |
| Verghese Kurien | I Too Had a Dream |
| V.K. Singh | Courage and Conviction |
| Walter Isaacson | Steve Jobs (Biography — not autobiography) |