Information has become an essential asset for the growth of organisations in every sector of our society. With the rate at which data has increased, organisations must upgrade their technological architecture for the improvement of their products and services as the traditional data management and processing systems are not capable of handling such a great amount of stream data. Retrieval of value from this data boosts the creation and adoption of advanced technologies. The article focuses on the growth of literature of Indian origin on big data over a period of ten years from 2011 to 2021 and scientometric analysis of data retrieved, top publication sources, different categories of documents published in this domain, prominent subject areas in the big data research and top institutes that contributed most to the big data research during this period.