Miss India has been participating in the Miss Universe pageant since 1952, starting with Indrani Rehman; and in the Miss World pageant since 1959, starting with Fleur Ezekiel. After the Femina Miss India pageant was established, the practice was to send the winner to the Miss Universe pageant and the runner-up to the Miss World contest. Usually a second-runner up or an independent pageant winner would be sent to international pageants like Miss Asia , Miss International and Miss Asia-Pacific . Starting from 1995, the practice of choosing a single winner or "Miss India" was changed to instead elect representatives to the different international pageants, and three winners, who receive equal prizes and status were chosen, and designated Miss India Universe, Miss India World and Miss India Asia-Pacific. As of 2002, the third winner would no longer be sent to Miss Asia-Pacific, but to the newly formed Miss Earth pageant.
The awards for 1989 were given at the end of the year (December), hence there was no separate contest for 1990.
The year 1994 was a landmark year for the pageant industry in India when both the Miss Universe and Miss World contests were won by Miss Indias Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai respectively. Coaching institutions were set up to groom girls in pageant participation skills. The number of participants in the preliminary rounds of the pageant has increased considerably. Pageant winners are also groomed for months in preparation for the international contest.
In 2000 all the Miss India winners happened to win their respective international pageants - Lara Dutta (Miss Universe), Priyanka Chopra (Miss World) and Diya Mirza (Miss Asia-Pacific).
Here is a list of women who have won the Miss India title. The names of those who have won the competition at the international level (Miss Universe, Miss World, etc.) are mentioned in bold.
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- Miss India Universe - Amrita Thapar
- Miss India World - Sindhura Gadde , later placed among the top 15 semi-finalists at Miss World
- Miss India Earth - Niharika Singh
- Miss India International - Vaishali Desai
- miss india asia pacific simran chandok
- Miss India Universe - Tanushree Dutta , later placed among the Top 10 at Miss Universe
- Miss India World - Sayali Bhagat
- Miss India Earth - Jyoti Brahmin, later placed among the Top 16 Semifinalists at Miss Earth
- miss india international mahika varma later s.f miss international
- Miss India Universe - Nikita Anand
- Miss India World - Ami Vashi, later third runner-up Miss World 2003
- Miss India Earth - Swetha Vijay
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - Shonal Rawat, later first runner-up Miss Asia Pacific , 2003
- miss india international shonali nagrani later miss international runner up 1
- Miss India Universe - Neha Dhupia , later ninth at Miss Universe
- Miss India World - Shruti Sharma later s.f at miss world (top 20)
- Miss India Earth - Reshmi Ghosh
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - Tina Chatwal, later second runner-up Miss Asia Pacific , 2002
- miss india international gauhar khan
- Miss India Universe - Celina Jaitley , later fourth runner-up at Miss Universe
- Miss India World - Sara Corner
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - Maheshwari Thyagrajan
- Miss India semi-finalist - Shamita Singha, later fifth place at Miss Earth (first contestant from India ever to compete)
- miss india international kanwal toor later s.f miss international
- Miss India Universe- , later Miss Universe , 2000 also miss intercontinental 1997
- Miss India World - , later Miss World , 2000
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - , later Miss Asia-Pacific , 2000
- miss india international gaytri joshi later s.f miss international
- Miss India Universe - Gul Panag , later sixth place at Miss Universe
- Miss India World - , later Miss World , 1999
- Miss India Asia Pacific - Shivangi Parikh
- miss india international sri krupa murali
- Miss India Universe - Lymaraina D'souza, later seventh place at Miss Universe
- Miss India World - Annie Thomas
- Miss India Asia Pacific - Vitika Aggarwal
- Miss India International swetha jaishankar later miss international runner up 2
- Miss India Universe - Nafisa Joseph , later tenth place at Miss Universe
- Miss India World - later Miss World , 1997
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - Divya Chauhan, later 1 RU at Miss Asia Pacific , 1997
- miss india international diya baraham later miss international runner up 1
- Miss India Universe- Sandhya Chib, later seventh place at Miss Universe , 1996
- Miss India World - Rani Jeyraj, later third runner-up Miss World , 1995
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - Mini Menon s.f miss asia pacific 1996
- miss india international fluer dominiqui xaviour
- Miss India Universe - Manpreet Brar, later 1st runner-up Miss Universe
- Miss India World - Preeti Mankotia
- Miss India Asia-Pacific - Ruchi Malhotra, later first runner-up at Miss Asia Pacific
- miss india international Priya Gill
- Miss India universe - , later Miss Universe , 1994
- Miss India world - , later Miss World , 1994
- Miss India international - Francesca Hart
- miss asia pacific - swetha memon later s.f at miss asia pacific 1994
- Miss India universe - Namrata Shirodkar , later fourth place Miss Universe , 1993 runnner up 1 to miss asia-pacific 1993
- Miss India world - Karminder Kaur
- Miss India international - pooja batra later s.f at miss international
- Miss India universe - Madhu Sapre, later second runner-up at Miss Universe 1992
- Miss India world - Shyla Lopez
- miss india asia pacific Mehroo jal mistery
- miss india international Kamal Sandu
- Miss India universe - Christabelle Howie
- Miss India world- Ritu Singh, later eighth Place Miss World
- Miss India international - Preeti Mankotia, later semi-finalist at Miss International
1990
- Miss India - Suzanne Sablok(Pillai), later semi-finalist (final 10) Miss Universe
- Miss India world - Naveeda Mehdi
- Miss India - Dolly Minhas sent to miss universe 1989
- Miss India world - Anuradha Kottoor
- miss india asia pacific viola anthony
- miss india international shikha swaroop
- Miss India universe - Priyadarshini Pradhan
- Miss India world - Manisha Kohli
- miss india international erika maria de d'souza later s.f at miss international
- miss india asia pacific jasleem kaur
- Miss India - Mehr Jessia
- Miss India first runner-up - Maureen Lestourgen
- Miss India - Sonu Walia
- Miss India first runner-up - Sharon Clarke
- Miss India - Juhi Chawla
- Miss India first runner-up - Suchita Kumar
- Miss India - Rekha Hande
- Miss India first runner-up - Sweety Grewal
- Miss India - Pamela Singh
- Miss India first runner-up - Uttara Mhatre
- Miss India - Ruchita Kumar, now known by the name Nandini Thackersey
- Miss India first runner-up - Deepti Divakar
- Miss India - Swaroop Sampat
- Miss India first runner-up - Raina Winifred Mendonca
- Miss India - Alamjeet Chauhan
- Miss India first runner-up - Kalpana Iyer , later 11th Place Miss World
- Miss India - Nalini Vishwanathan
- Miss India first runner-up - Veena Prakash, withdrew from the Miss World contest because of India's policy against Apartheid
- Miss India winner - Nafisa Ali
- Miss India first runner-up - Naina Balsaver, withdrew from the Miss World contest because of India's policy against apartheid
- Miss India - Meenakshi Kurpad
- Miss India first runner-up - Anjana Sood, later semi-finalist Miss World
- Miss India - Shailini Dholakia, later semi-finalist, Miss Universe , 1974
- Miss India - Farzana Habib, later semi-finalist Miss Universe
- Miss India first runner-up - ''none''
- Miss India - Roopa Satyan, later semi-finalist Miss Universe
- Miss India first runner-up - Malathi Basappa, later fourth runner-up Miss World
- Miss India - Raj Gill
- Miss India first runner-up - Prema Narayan
- Miss India - Veena Sajnani
- Miss India first runner-up - Heather Faville, later semi-finalist Miss World
- Miss India second runner-up - Zeenat Aman , Miss Asia 1970.
- Miss India - Kavita Bhambani
- Miss India first runner-up - Adina Shellim
- Miss India - Anjum Mumtaz Barg
- Miss India first runner-up - Jane Coelho
- Miss India - Nayyara Mirza, now known by the name Nalini Patel
- Miss India first runner-up - ''none''
Persis Khambatta
Meher Mistry, later known as Meher Castelino
Ferial Karim, later semi-finalist Miss World
Veronica Torcato
Iona Pinto
Fleur Ezekiel, first Miss India to participate in Miss World
Peace Kanwal
Pramila
- ''The Pride of India'', a cofffe table book on former Miss Indias, by Persis Khambatta, Miss India 1965
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