| Dadabhai Naoroji | Rast Goftar (1851) | Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901) |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Kesari (1881), Mahratta (1881) | Gita Rahasya (1915) |
| Gopal Ganesh Agarkar | Sudharak (1888) | — |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | The Panjabee (1904), Young India (1916) | Unhappy India (1928) |
| Bipin Chandra Pal | New India (1902), Bande Mataram (1906) | Indian Nationalism (1917) |
| Aurobindo Ghosh | Bande Mataram (1906), Karmayogin (1909) | Life Divine (1914) |
| Surendranath Banerjee | The Bengalee (1879) | A Nation in Making (1925) |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Young India (1919–31), Harijan (1933), Navjivan (1919) | Hind Swaraj (1909), My Experiments with Truth (1927) |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | National Herald (1938) | Discovery of India (1946), Glimpses of World History (1934) |
| Subhas Chandra Bose | Forward Bloc (1939) | The Indian Struggle (1935) |
| Bhagat Singh | Kirti (1926), Pratap (articles ~1923–24) | Why I am an Atheist (1930) |
| Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | Al-Hilal (1912), Al-Balagh (1915) | India Wins Freedom (1959) |
| Annie Besant | New India (1914), Commonweal (1914) | Wake Up India (1913) |
| Vinayak Damodar Savarkar | — | The Indian War of Independence (1857) (1909) |
| Jyotirao Phule | Deenbandhu (1877, by Bhalekar – Satyashodhak Samaj) | Gulamgiri (1873) |
| B. R. Ambedkar | Mooknayak (1920), Bahishkrit Bharat (1927) | Annihilation of Caste (1936) |
| Rajendra Prasad | — | India Divided (1946) |
| Bipan Chandra | — | India’s Struggle for Independence (1988) |