Mahatma Gandhi – (The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Conquest of Self, The Way to Communal Harmony, Non-violence in Peace and War, Self-Restraint versus Self Indulgence)
Maithili Sharan Gupta – (Bharat Bharati, Saket)
Manohar Malgoankar – (Bandicoot Run, Bend in the Ganges)
Mulk Raj Anand – (Two Leaves And A Bud, The Village, The Lord, The Bride’s Book of Beauty, The Coolie, The Bubble, The Untouchable, Confessions of a Lover)
Nayantara Sehgal – (Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style, A Voice of Freedom)
Nirad C. Choudhury – (A Passage to England, An Unknown Indian, Continent of Circe Scholar Extraordinary, Hinduism, To Hire or not to Hire, The Horseman and the New Apocalypse)
Prem Chand – (Godaan, Rangbhoomi)
Promilla Kalhan – (Black Wednesday)
Pt. Ravi Shankar – (My Music, My Life)
Rabindra Nath Tagore – (Chandalika, Chitrangada, Crescent Moon, The Court Dancer, Gardener, Gitanjali, King of Dark Chamber, The Post Office, Bisarjan)
Raj Kamal Jha – (The Blue Bedspread, If you are Afraid of Heights)
Rajendra Prasad – (India Divided)
R.K. Narayan – (A Town Called Malgudi, Malgudi Days, Indian Thought: A Miscellany, My Days: Autobiography, Mr Sampath, The Guide, The Vendor of Sweets, The Bachelor of Arts)
Ruth Prawer Jhabwala – (Heat and Dust)
Rohinton Mistry – (A Fine Balance, Such a Long Journey)
Romila Thapar – (History of Early India)
Salman Rushdie – (Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Fury, The Moor’s last Singh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
Sarojini Naidu – (Golden Threshold, The Songs of India)
Satyajit Ray – (Our Films Their Films, The Mystery of the Pink Pearl, Danger in Darjeeling, Robertson’s Ruby)
Sharat Chandra Chatterjee – (Devdas)
Sir Aurobindo Ghosh – (Essays on Gita, Life Divine)
Sisir Kumar Ghosh – (Beyond Modernization, Beyond Self)
Sunil Gavaskar – ( Sunny Days)
Ved Mehta – (Portrait of India)
Vikram Seth – (A Suitable Boy, The Golden Gate)
V.S. Naipaul – (A Loss of El Dorado, An Area of Darkness, Miguel Street, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, Finding the Centre in a Free State, A Bend in the River)
