List of autobiographies by Indians

List of autobiographies written by Indians

Author	Title of book	Year	Remarks
Banarasidas	Ardhakathānaka	1641	Braj Bhasha
Rassundari Devi	Aamar Jiban	1876	Bengali
Bhagat Singh	Why I Am An Atheist	1931
Narmad	Mari Hakikat	1933	Gujarati
B. R. Ambedkar	Waiting for a Visa	1935	The book is used as a textbook in Columbia University.[1]
Jawaharlal Nehru	An Autobiography	1936
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	The Story of My Experiments with Truth	1940s
Paramahansa Yogananda	Autobiography of a Yogi	1946
Rajendra Prasad, first president	Atmakahktha	1946	ENGLISH
U. V. Swaminatha Iyer	En Sarithiram	1950	Tamil
Nirad C. Chaudhuri	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	1951
Prakash Tandon	Punjabi Century 1857-1947	1963
Ravi Shankar	My Music, My Life	1968
Kamala Surayya	Ente Katha	1973	English version My Story
Anna Chandy, first female judge	Atmakatha	1973	Malayalam
Swami Rama	Living with the Himalayan Masters	1978
Manilal Dwivedi	Atmavrittanta	1979	Published posthumously by Dhirubhai Thaker
Sita Ram Goel	How I Became a Hindu	1982
Satyajit Ray, director	Jakhan Choto Chilam	1982
Shantabai Kamble	Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha	1983	First autobiography of Dalit woman.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Wings of Fire	1999
Khushwant Singh	Truth, Love & a Little Malice	2002
J. B. Kripalani	My Times: An Autobiography	2004
Aribam Syam Sharma	Living Shadows	2006
Phoolan Devi	The Bandit Queen of India	2006
L. K. Advani	My Country My Life	2008
V. R. Krishna Iyer	Wandering in Many Worlds	2009
Abhinav Bindra	A Shot at History	2011
I K Gujral	Matters of Discretion	2011
Arjun Singh	A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time	2012	Hay House
Verghese Kurien	The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance	2012	Audioautobiography - Om Audio Books
Mary Kom	Unbreakable	2013
Milkha Singh	The Race of My Life	2013
Kapil Dev	Straight from the Heart	2013
Vijay Kumar Singh	Courage and Conviction	2013
Yuvraj Singh	The Test of My Life	2013
M. Karunanidhi	Nejukku Needhi	2013	6 Volumes. 3926 Pages. Covering period from 1924 to 2006
K. Natwar Singh	One Life Is Not Enough	2014
Sachin Tendulkar	Playing It My Way	2014
Temsula Ao	Once Upon a Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir	2014
Sharad Pawar	On my Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power	2015
Sania Mirza	Ace Against Odds	2016
Anil K. Rajvanshi	A Life of an ordinary Indian - An exercise in self-importance	2016
Sonu Sood	I Am No Messiah	2020
Ranjan Gogoi	Justice for the Judge	2021
Dagdu Maruti Pawar	Baluta	1978
Annabhau Sathe	Fakira	1959	part myth, part autobiography
Baburao Bagul	When I concealed my caste - (जेव्हा मी जात चोरली होती!)	1963
Namdeo Dhasal	Golpitha	1978
Laxman Mane	Upara	1980
Raja Dhale	Dalit Pantherchi Sansthapana: Vastustithi Ani Viparyas	2002
Shankarrao Kharat	Taral Antaral	1981
Urmila Pawar	Aaydan (The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs)	2003
Babytai Kamble	Jinne Amuche ('Our Lives')	1986
Narendra Jadhav	Aamcha Baap Ani Amhi (Our Father And We)	1993
Shantabai Kamble	Mazhya Jalmachi Chittarkatha (The Kaleidoscopic Story Of My Life)	1983
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar	Shatruchya Shibiraat	1965	Originally written in Marathi, and later translated to English. Translated version in English is titled "Inside the Enemy Camp".