| Sl No | Year | Author Name | Book Name | |
| 1 | 1971 | V S Naipaul | In a Free State | |
| 2 | 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | |
| 3 | 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight`s Children | |
| 4 | 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | |
| 5 | 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | |
| 6 | 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | |
| 7 | 2011 | Amitav Ghosh | River of Smoke | |
| 8 | 2012 | Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis |