Indian writing in English is a relatively-recent phenomena, as far as literature goes. Though one can trace such writers in India to a century back, Indian writing in English has come into force only in the last couple of decades or so. Some of these writers have achieved worldwide fame, some national, and others perhaps have to be content with a more constricted circle. In these pages, I will collate information on this disparate group of Indian writers in English.

The very definition of the adjective “Indian” here is hazy. Many of these writers neither live in India, nor are Indian citizens. To get around this haziness, I will cast my net as wide as possible and include all those writers who are related to India be it by origin, or the subject of their writings—whether they admit it or not, whether they like it or not!

Note: The writers’ names marked with a dagger denotes that the link contains information only about the books written, and no/incomplete biographical content. You are welcome to send me biographical information on those writers.

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• A
1. Abdulali, Sohaila
2. Adiga, Aravind
3. Advani, Rukun ^†
4. Ahmad, Omair
5. Alexander, Meena
6. Ali, Ahmed ^†
7. Ali, Samina ^†
8. Alter, Tom
9. Anand, Mulk Raj
10. Anjum, Zafar
11. Antony, Shinie
12. Appachana, Anjana
• B
1. Badami, Anita Rau
2. Bagchi, Amitabha ^†
3. Bahal, Aniruddha ^†
4. Bajaj, Karan ^†
5. Bajwa, Rupa ^†
6. Balasubramanyam, Rajeev
7. Baldwin, Shauna Singh
8. Banerjee, Anjali
9. Banker, Ashok
10. Basil, Priya
11. Basu, Kankana ^†
12. Basu, Kunal
13. Basu, Samit
14. Basu, Shrabani ^†
15. Bhaduri, Abhijit ^†
16. Bhagat, Chetan
17. Bhattacharya, Bhabani ^†
18. Bhaumik, Mani ^†
19. Bond, Ruskin
20. Bose, Anirban ^†
• C
1. Chakraborti, Rajorshi
2. Chakravarti, Aruna ^†
3. Chakravarti, Sudeep
4. Chand, Meira
5. Chandra, Vikram
6. Charry, Brinda
7. Chatterjee, Jayabrato
8. Chatterjee, Upamanyu
9. Chaudhuri, Amit
10. Chaudhuri, Nirad C.
11. Chauhan, Anuja ^†
12. Chitre, Dilip
13. Choudhury, Chandrahas^†
14. Chowdhury, Siddharth
15. Corbett, Jim
• D
1. da Costa, Suneeta Peres ^†
2. da Cunha, Nandita
3. da Cunha, Nisha ^†
4. Daruwalla, Keki
5. Das, Gurcharan
6. Das, Kamala
7. Dasgupta, Rana
8. Daswani, Kavita
9. Dattani, Mahesh
10. David, Esther
11. Davidar, David
12. Dawesar, Abha
13. De, Shobha
14. Deb, Siddhartha
15. Desai, Anita
16. Desai, Boman
17. Desai, Kiran
18. Desai, Meghnad ^†
19. Desani, G. V.
20. Deshpande, Shashi
21. Devidayal, Namita ^†
22. de Souza, Eunice ^†
23. Dharker, Imtiaz ^†
24. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
• E
1. Espinet, Ramabai
2. Etteth, Ravi Shankar
3. Ezekiel, Nissim
• F
1. Faleiro, Sonia
2. Futehally, Shama
• G
1. Gadekar, Reeti ^†
2. Ghose, Sagarika
3. Ghosh, Amitav
4. Gokhale, Namita
5. Gour, Neelam Saran
6. Gupta, Sunetra
7. Guptara, Jyoti ^†
8. Guptara, Suresh ^†
• H
1. Hariharan, Gita
2. Hasan, Anjum ^†
3. Hazra, Indrajit
4. Hidier, Tanuja Desai ^†
• I
1. Iyer, Pico
• J
1. Jha, Radhika
2. Jha, Raj Kamal
3. Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
4. Joshi, Arun
5. Joshi, Ruchir ^†
6. Jussawalla, Adil
• K
1. Kacker, Loveleen ^†
2. Kala, Advaita ^†
3. Kanga, Firdaus
4. Kapur, Manju
5. Kaushal, Swati ^†
6. Kesavan, Mukul ^†
7. Khair, Tabish ^†
8. Khanna, Deeptha ^†
9. Kirchner, Bharti
10. Kolatkar, Arun ^†
11. Koshy, Mridula ^†
12. Kumar, Amitava
13. Kumar, Shiv K.
14. Kunzru, Hari
• L
1. Lahiri, Jhumpa
2. Lal, Bela ^†
3. Lal, Ranjit ^†
4. Lalwani, Nikita ^†
5. Laxman, R. K.
• M
1. Madhavan, Cauvery
2. Madhavan, Meenakshi Reddy ^†
3. Mahajan, Karan ^†
4. Majumdar, Anuradha ^†
5. Majumdar, Saikat ^†
6. Malgonkar, Manohar
7. Malik, Keshav
8. Malladi, Amulya
9. Mandava, Bhargavi ^†
10. Markandaya, Kamala
11. Mascarenhas, Margaret ^†
12. Massey, Sujata
13. Mathai, Manorama ^†
14. Mathur, Anurag
15. Meer, Ameena ^†
16. Mehrotra, Palash Krishna ^†
17. Mehta, Gita
18. Mehta, Rama
19. Mehta, Suketu
20. Mehta, Ved
21. Merchant, Ameen ^†
22. Minhas, Nisha ^†
23. Mishra, Pankaj
24. Misra, Jaishree ^†
25. Mistry, Cyrus ^†
26. Mistry, Rohinton
27. Mohan, Peggy ^†
28. Mohanty, Sharmistha ^†
29. Moraes, Dom
30. Mukherjee, Bharati
31. Murari, Timeri N.
• N
1. Nagarkar, Kiran
2. Nahal, Chaman ^†
3. Naipaul, Shiva
4. Naipaul, V. S.
5. Nair, Anita
6. Nair, Preethi
7. Nambisan, Kaveri ^†
8. Namjoshi, Suniti
9. Narayan, Kirin ^†
10. Narayan, R. K.
11. Natarajan, Srividya ^†
12. Nayak, Meena Arora ^†
• O
• P
1. Padmanabhan, Manjula ^†
2. Pande, Mrinal ^†
3. Parameswaran, Uma ^†
4. Parekh, Sameer ^†
5. Parthasarathy, R.
6. Paul, Sharad P. ^†
7. Pereira, Oswald ^†
8. Persaud, Lakshmi
9. Pestonji, Meher ^†
10. Phukan, Mitra ^†
11. Pratap, Anita ^†
12. Puri, Neel Kamal ^†
• Q
• R
1. Rajan, Balachandran
2. Ramanujan, A. K.
3. Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor
4. Rao, Malathi
5. Rao, R. Raj
6. Rao, Raja
7. Romany, Diana
8. Roy, Anuradha
9. Roy, Arundhati
10. Rushdie, Salman
• S
1. Sahgal, Nayantara
2. Sahni, Bhisham
3. Saikia, Ankush
4. Sankaran, Lavanya
5. Saraf, Sujit
6. Sawhney, Kusum
7. Sealy, I. Allan
8. Sehgal, Rashme
9. Seth, Vikram
10. Sen, Selina
11. Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant
12. Sharma, Akhil
13. Sharma, Bulbul
14. Singh, Khushwant
15. Singh, Sonia
16. Singh, Sunny
17. Singh, Vijay
18. Sinha, Indra
19. Someshwar, Manreet Sodhi
20. Srivastava, Atima
21. Sundaresan, Indu
22. Surendran, C. P.
23. Suri, Manil
24. Suri, Sanjay
25. Swaminathan, Kalpana
26. Swarup, Vikas
27. Syal, Meera
• T
1. Tagore, Rabindranath
2. Tejpal, Tarun
3. Thapa, Manjushree
4. Tharoor, Shashi
5. Tyrewala, Altaf
• U
1. Umrigar, Thrity
2. Usha, K. R.
• V
1. Vachani, Nilita
2. Vakil, Ardashir
3. Varma, Amit^†
4. Vassanji, M. G.
5. Venkataramani, K. S.
6. Venkateswaran, Balaji
7. Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta
8. Virani, Pinki
9. Visvanathan, Susan
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• Y
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