India
See also: List of Historical novels in Indian languages- Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) by Rabindranath Tagore
- Volga se Ganga by Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
- Shahzada Dara Shikoh: A Bi-Volume Novel by Shyamal Gangopadhyaya based on the facts about Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and his sons.
- Kaaler Mondira, Goud Mallar, Tumi Shondhyar Megh, KumarShambhawber Kobi, Tungobhadrar Teeray by Sharodindu Bandopadhyay
- Rajshingho, Anondo Mawth (Anandamath) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Shei Shomoy by Sunil Gangopadhyay
- The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye (British India in the 19th century)
- Parthiban Kanavu, Sivagamiyin Sabadham, Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki Krishnamurthy (1940s)
- Vengaiyin Mayinthan by Akilan (1960s)
- Kayalvizhi by Akilan (1960s)
- Verti Thirunagar by Akilan (1960s)
- Garam Hawa by Ismat Chughtai
- A Spoke in the Wheel by Amita Kanekar
- Aag ka Darya or River of Fire an Urdu novel by Qurratulain Hyder.
- Kai Chand thay Sar-e-Aasman or Many a moon were there in the Sky an Urdu novel by Shams-ur-Rehman Faruqi
- Marthandavarma (1891), Dharma Raja (1911), Rama Raja Bahadur by C V Raman Pillai
- Recalcitrance by Anurag Kumar
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler (set in 17th-century Goa)
- The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple (historian)
- White Mughals by William Dalrymple (historian)
- Empire of the moghul Series on the Mughal Rulers of India by Alex Rutherford
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