# India at the Big Four beauty pageants

The following is a list of India's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won a total of ten victories with eighty-one placements in all four pageants:
* Three – Miss Universe crowns (1994 • 2000 • 2021)
* Six – Miss World crowns (1966 • 1994 • 1997 • 1999 • 2000 • 2017)
* One – Miss Earth crown (2010)

## National franchises and Organizations

The Indian franchise holders of the four major beauty pageants are the following:
* Femina Miss India by the Times Group for Miss World
* Miss Divine Beauty by Deepak Agarwal for Miss Earth and Miss International
* Miss Universe India by the Glamanand Group for Miss Universe

## India's Big Four titleholders

India won its first Big Four title when Reita Faria from India bagged the Miss World 1966 title, becoming the first Asian to win Miss World. In 1994, Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe 1994, becoming the country's first ever Miss Universe titleholder. Later that year, Aishwarya Rai added to the winning streak, picking up the Miss World 1994 title.
Diana Hayden then won the Miss World 1997. Actor and model Yukta Mookhey was later crowned Miss World 1999. Six years after Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai's double wins, Lara Dutta for Miss Universe 2000 and Priyanka Chopra for Miss World 2000 replicated the feat in 2000, marking the most recent time (as of 2025) that any country has won back-to-back at Miss World and, making India the last country to ever win at both Miss Universe and Miss World in the same year in the 20th century. India's appearances at the Miss Universe semifinals from 1992 to 2002 made it the first country in the Eastern Hemisphere to place annually at the pageant for at least 10 consecutive years.
In 2010, Nicole Faria from Bangalore became the first Indian woman to win the Miss Earth 2010 pageant. Manushi Chhillar won the Miss World 2017 title and became the sixth Indian woman to be crowned Miss World. Harnaaz Sandhu won the Miss Universe 2021 title, becoming the third Indian woman to be crowned Miss Universe and the most recent Big Four pageant titleholder from India as of 2025.

### Colour Key

* Winner
* Ended as Runner-up
* Ended as one of the Finalists, Semi-finalists or Quarter-finalists
| Year | Miss Universe | Miss World | Miss International | Miss Earth |
| 2026 | TBA | Nikita Porwal TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | TBA | Nandini Gupta TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2024 | Rhea Singha Top 30 | No Pageant Held | Rashmi Shinde | Gauri Gothankar |
| 2023 | Shweta Sharda Top 20 | Sini Shetty Top 8 | Praveena Aanjna | Priyan Sain Top 20 |
| 2022 | Divita Rai Top 16 | No Pageant Held | Zoya Afroz | Vanshika Parmar |
| 2021 | Harnaaz Sandhu Miss Universe | Manasa Varanasi Top 13 | No pageant held due to COVID-19 pandemic | Rashmi Madhuri |
| 2020 | Adline Castelino 3rd Runner-Up | No pageant held due to COVID-19 pandemic | No pageant held due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tanvi Kharote |
| 2019 | Vartika Singh Top 20 | Suman Rao 2nd Runner-Up | Simrithi Bathija | Tejaswini Manogna |
| 2018 | Nehal Chudasama | Anukreethy Vas Top 30 | Tanishqa Bhosale | Nishi Bhardwaj |
| 2017 | Shraddha Shashidhar | Manushi Chhillar Miss World | Ankita Kumari | Shaan Sumas Kumar |
| 2016 | Roshmitha Harimurthy | Priyadarshini Chatterjee Top 20 | Rewati Chetri | Rashi Yadav |
| 2015 | Urvashi Rautela | Aditi Arya | Supriya Aiman | Aaital Khosla |
| 2014 | Noyonita Lodh Top 15 | Koyal Rana Top 10 | Jhataleka Malhotra | Alankrita Sahai |
| 2013 | Manasi Moghe Top 10 | Navneet Dhillon Top 20 | Gurleen Grewal | Sobhita Dhulipala |
| 2012 | Shilpa Singh Top 16 | Vanya Mishra Top 7 | Rochelle Rao Top 15 | Prachi Mishra |
| 2011 | Vasuki Sunkavalli | Kanishtha Dhankhar Top 31 | Ankita Shorey | Hasleen Kaur |
| 2010 | Ushoshi Sengupta | Manasvi Mamgai | Neha Hinge Top 15 | Nicole Faria Miss Earth |
| 2009 | Ekta Chowdhary | Pooja Chopra Top 16 | Harshita Saxena | Shriya Kishore Top 16 |
| 2008 | Simran Kaur Mundi | Parvathy Omanakuttan 1st Runner-Up | Radha Brahmbhatt | Tanvi Vyas |
| 2007 | Puja Gupta Top 10 | Sarah-Jane Dias | Esha Gupta | Pooja Chitgopekar Miss Earth – Air |
| 2006 | Neha Kapur Top 20 | Natasha Suri Top 17 | Sonnalli Seygall Top 12 | Amruta Patki Miss Earth – Air |
| 2005 | Amrita Thapar | Sindhura Gadde Top 15 | Vaishali Desai | Niharika Singh |
| 2004 | Tanushree Dutta Top 10 | Sayali Bhagat | Mihika Verma Top 15 | Jyoti Brahmin Top 16 |
| 2003 | Nikita Anand | Ami Vashi Top 5 | Shonali Nagrani 1st Runner-Up | Shweta Vijay |
| 2002 | Neha Dhupia Top 10 | Shruti Sharma Top 20 | Gauahar Khan | Reshmi Ghosh |
| 2001 | Celina Jaitley 4th Runner-Up | Sara Corner | Kanwal Toor Top 15 | Shamita Singha Top 10 |
| 2000 | Lara Dutta Miss Universe | Priyanka Chopra Miss World | Gayatri Joshi Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1999 | Gul Panag Top 10 | Yukta Mookhey Miss World | Srikrupa Murali | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1998 | Lymaraina D'Souza Top 10 | Annie Thomas | Shwetha Jaishanker 2nd Runner-Up | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1997 | Nafisa Joseph Top 10 | Diana Hayden Miss World | Diya Abraham 1st Runner-Up | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1996 | Sandhya Chib Top 10 | Rani Jeyraj Top 5 | Fleur Xavier | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1995 | Manpreet Brar 1st Runner-Up | Preeti Mankotia | Priya Gill | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1994 | Sushmita Sen Miss Universe | Aishwarya Rai Miss World | Fransesca Hart | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1993 | Namrata Shirodkar Top 6 | Karminder Kaur-Virk | Pooja Batra Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1992 | Madhu Sapre 2nd Runner-Up | Shyla Lopez | Kamal Sandhu | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1991 | Christabelle Howie | Ritu Singh Top 10 | Preeti Mankotia Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1990 | Suzanne Sablok Top 10 | Naveeda Mehdi | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1989 | Dolly Minhas | × | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1988 | × | Anuradha Kottur | Shikha Swaroop | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1987 | Priyadarshini Pradhan | Manisha Kohli | Erika Maria de Souza Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1986 | Mehr Jessia | Maureen Lestourgeon | Poonam Gidwant | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1985 | Sonu Walia | Sharon Clarke | Vinita Vasan | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1984 | Juhi Chawla | Suchita Kumar | Nalanda Bhandar Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1983 | Rekha Hande | Sweety Grewal | Sahila Chadha | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1982 | Pamela Chaudry Singh | Uttara Mhatre Kher | Betty O'Connor | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1981 | Rachita Kumar | Deepti Divakar | Meenakshi Seshadri | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1980 | Sangeeta Bijlani | Elizabeth Anita Reddi Top 15 | Ulrika Bredemeyer | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1979 | Swaroop Sampat | Raina Mendonica | Nita Pinto | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1978 | Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan | Kalpana Iyer Top 15 | Sabita Dhanrajgir | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1977 | Bineeta Bose | × | Joan Stephens | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1976 | Naina Balsavar | × | Nafisa Ali 2nd Runner-Up | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1975 | Meenakshi Kurpad | Anjana Sood Top 15 | Indira Bredemeyer 2nd Runner-Up | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1974 | Shailini Dholakia Top 12 | Kiran Dholakia | Leslie Hartnett | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1973 | Farzana Habib Top 12 | × | Lynette Williams | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1972 | Roopa Satyan Top 12 | Malathi Basappa 4th Runner-Up | Indira Muthanna | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1971 | Raj Gill | Prema Narayan | Samita Mukherjee | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1970 | Veena Sajnani | Heather Faville Top 15 | Patricia D'Souza Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1969 | Kavita Bhambhani | Adina Shellim | Wendy Vaz | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1968 | Anjum Mumtaz Barg | Jane Coelho | Sumita Sen Top 15 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1967 | Nayyara Mirza | × | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1966 | Yasmin Daji 3rd Runner-Up | Reita Faria Miss World | ↑ No Pageant Held | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1965 | Persis Khambatta | × | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1964 | Meher Castelino Mistri | × | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1963 | × | × | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1962 | × | Ferial Karim Top 15 | Sheila Chonkar | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1961 | × | Veronica Torcato | Diana Valentine | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1960 | × | Iona Pinto | Iona Pinto 1st Runner-Up | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1959 | × | Fleur Ezekiel | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1958 | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1957 | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1956 | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1955 | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1954 | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1953 | × | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1952 | Indrani Rehman | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
| 1951 | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1952 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1960 in Florida, United States) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) | ↑ No Pageant Held (established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines) |
× Did not compete ↑ No pageant held
| Pageant | Placements | Best result |
| Miss Universe | 28 | Winner (1994 • 2000 • 2021) |
| Miss World | 29 | Winner (1966 • 1994 • 1997 • 1999 • 2000 • 2017) |
| Miss International | 18 | 1st Runner-Up (1960 • 1997 • 2003) |
| Miss Earth | 7 | Winner (2010) |
| Total | 82 | 10 Titles |

## Hostings

| Year | pageant | Location | Venue | Date | Contestants |
| 1996 | Miss World | Bangalore, Karnataka | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | November 23, 1996 | 88 |
| 2023 | Miss World | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Jio World Convention Center | March 9, 2024 | 112 |
| 2025 | Miss World | Hyderabad, Telangana | | May 31, 2025 | |

## List of crossovers

Crossover winners of a national pageant wins in another major national pageant and then participate in the line of international beauty pageants.
* Iona Pinto – Delegate of India by winning Miss India in 1960. She then participated in Miss International 1960, where she was the first-runner up. Her country sent her again for Miss World 1960 where she was one of the eighteen semifinalists.
* Preeti Mankotia – Delegate of India by winning Miss India in 1991. She then participated in Miss International 1991, where she was one of the fifteen finalist. She again participated in Femina Miss India 1995 where she was crowned as Miss India World and participated in Miss World 1995 where she was unable to place.