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| S. No. | Author | Title of Book | Year |
|---|
| 1 | Mahatma Gandhi | Hind Swaraj | 1909 |
| 2 | Mahatma Gandhi | The Story of My Experiments with Truth | 1927 |
| 3 | Mahatma Gandhi | Satyagraha in South Africa | 1928 |
| 4 | Mahatma Gandhi | India of My Dreams | 1947 (compiled) |
| 5 | Mahatma Gandhi | Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place | 1941 |
| 6 | Jawaharlal Nehru | An Autobiography | 1936 |
| 7 | Jawaharlal Nehru | The Discovery of India | 1946 |
| 8 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Glimpses of World History | 1934 |
| 9 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Letters from a Father to His Daughter | 1929 |
| 10 | Jawaharlal Nehru | India and the World | 1936 |
| 11 | Subhas Chandra Bose | The Indian Struggle | 1935 |
| 12 | Subhas Chandra Bose | An Indian Pilgrim | 1948 (posthumous) |
| 13 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Gita Rahasya | 1915 |
| 14 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | The Arctic Home in the Vedas | 1903 |
| 15 | Rabindranath Tagore | Nationalism | 1917 |
| 16 | Rabindranath Tagore | Ghare-Baire | 1916 |
| 17 | Rabindranath Tagore | Sadhana | 1913 |
| 18 | Rabindranath Tagore | Gitanjali | 1910 (Eng. 1912) |
| 19 | Bhagat Singh | Why I Am an Atheist | 1930 |
| 20 | Bhagat Singh | Jail Notebook | 1930 (published later) |
| 21 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | India Wins Freedom | 1959 |
| 22 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | Ghubar-e-Khatir | 1946 |
| 23 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | India Divided | 1946 |
| 24 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | Autobiography | 1946 |
| 25 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Selected Works | 1971 (compiled) |
| 26 | Annie Besant | How India Wrought for Freedom | 1915 |
| 27 | Annie Besant | India: A Nation | 1915 |
| 28 | Lala Lajpat Rai | Unhappy India | 1928 |
| 29 | Lala Lajpat Rai | Young India | 1916 |
| 30 | Lala Lajpat Rai | England’s Debt to India | 1917 |
| 31 | Sarojini Naidu | The Golden Threshold | 1905 |
| 32 | Sarojini Naidu | The Bird of Time | 1912 |
| 33 | Dadabhai Naoroji | Poverty and Un-British Rule in India | 1901 |
| 34 | Dadabhai Naoroji | Speeches and Writings | 1887 (compiled) |
| 35 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Speeches and Writings | 1905 (compiled) |
| 36 | Bipin Chandra Pal | Nationality and Empire | 1916 |
| 37 | Bipin Chandra Pal | The Spirit of Indian Nationalism | 1911 |
| 38 | Sri Aurobindo | Bande Mataram Writings | 1907 |
| 39 | Sri Aurobindo | The Ideal of Human Unity | 1919 |
| 40 | Sri Aurobindo | Essays on the Gita | 1922 |
| 41 | V.D. Savarkar | The Indian War of Independence (1857) | 1909 |
| 42 | V.D. Savarkar | Hindutva | 1923 |
| 43 | V.D. Savarkar | My Transportation for Life | 1927 |
| 44 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | My Life and Struggle | 1969 |
| 45 | C. Rajagopalachari | Ramayana | 1951 |
| 46 | C. Rajagopalachari | Mahabharata | 1958 |
| 47 | C. Rajagopalachari | India’s Rebirth | 1944 |
| 48 | M.N. Roy | India in Transition | 1922 |
| 49 | M.N. Roy | Reason, Romanticism and Revolution | 1952 |
| 50 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Why Socialism? | 1936 |
| 51 | Jayaprakash Narayan | Towards Total Revolution | 1978 |
| 52 | Ram Manohar Lohia | Marx, Gandhi and Socialism | 1963 |
| 53 | Ram Manohar Lohia | Guilty Men of India’s Partition | 1960 |
| 54 | Sucheta Kriplani | Speeches and Writings | 1974 (compiled) |
| 55 | Madan Mohan Malaviya | Speeches and Writings | 1919 (compiled) |
| 56 | K.M. Munshi | Pilgrimage to Freedom | 1967 |
| 57 | K.M. Munshi | I Follow the Mahatma | 1968 |
| 58 | Pattabhi Sitaramayya | History of the Indian National Congress | 1935 |
| 59 | J.B. Kripalani | My Times | 1972 |
| 60 | Acharya Narendra Dev | Socialism and the National Revolution | 1946 |
| 61 | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur | Selected Speeches | 1964 |
| 62 | S. Satyamurti | Speeches | 1940 (compiled) |
| 63 | C.F. Andrews | Mahatma Gandhi and South Africa | 1918 |
| 64 | Hasrat Mohani | Diwan-e-Hasrat | 1914 |
| 65 | Ashfaqulla Khan | Hasrat-e-Zindagi | 1926 |
| 66 | Syed Ahmad Khan | Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind | 1858 |
| 67 | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Anandamath | 1882 |
| 68 | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay | Krishna Charitra | 1886 |
| 69 | Swami Vivekananda | Lectures from Colombo to Almora | 1897 |
| 70 | Swami Vivekananda | Raja Yoga | 1896 |
| 71 | Sister Nivedita | The Web of Indian Life | 1904 |
| 72 | Abanindranath Tagore | Rajkahini | 1909 |
| 73 | Subramania Bharati | Gnana Ratham | 1912 |
| 74 | Periyar E.V. Ramasamy | Why the Brahmins? | 1941 |
| 75 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad | The Mahatma and the Ism | 1958 |
| 76 | Pherozeshah Mehta | Speeches and Writings | 1905 |
| 77 | K.T. Telang | Speeches and Essays | 1887 |
| 78 | R.C. Dutt | Economic History of India | 1902 |
| 79 | Lala Hardayal | Hints for Self Culture | 1934 |
| 80 | Shyamji Krishna Varma | The Indian Sociologist | 1905 |
| 81 | Rash Behari Bose | Speeches and Writings | 1945 (compiled) |
| 82 | C.R. Das | Speeches and Writings | 1922 |
| 83 | Saifuddin Kitchlew | Speeches and Writings | 1945 |
| 84 | B.R. Ambedkar | Annihilation of Caste | 1936 |
| 85 | B.R. Ambedkar | Pakistan or the Partition of India | 1940 |
| 86 | B.R. Ambedkar | What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables | 1945 |
| 87 | V.O. Chidambaram Pillai | Autobiography | 1934 |
| 88 | Aruna Asaf Ali | Fragments from the Past | 1991 |
| 89 | Usha Mehta | Reminiscences of the Freedom Movement | 1994 |
| 90 | Kalpana Dutt | Chittagong Armoury Raiders | 1945 |
| 91 | P. Krishna Pillai | Selected Writings | 1968 |
| 92 | K. Kelappan | Memoirs | 1960 |
| 93 | T. Prakasam | Autobiography | 1951 |
| 94 | Govind Ballabh Pant | Speeches and Writings | 1965 |
| 95 | Bhulabhai Desai | Speeches and Writings | 1945 |
| 96 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Speeches and Statements | 1947 |
| 97 | Allama Iqbal | The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam | 1930 |
| 98 | Annie Besant | Wake Up, India | 1913 |
| 99 | Motilal Nehru | Selected Works | 1962 (compiled) |
| 100 | Surendranath Banerjee | A Nation in the Making | 1925 |
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