India India was a large subcontinent in south Asia . By 2011 , eighty percent of India was Hindu . ( TV : " Rendition " ) Government . Part of India was a monarchy during the Mughal dynasty . The ruler was an emperor . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) As part of the British Empire , a Viceroy of India was appointed to govern the country . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) Victoria was officially the Empress of India . ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " ) Following independence , India was a democracy with a Prime minister . ( AUDIO : " The Eye of the Scorpion " , TV : " Rendition " ) For several centuries , the Scindias were one of the most influential families in India . ( COMIC : " The Swords of Kali " ) Geography . One of the provinces was called Madhya . ( COMIC : " The Swords of Kali " ) History . 12th century . Ben Daheer ' s goods included embroidered fabrics from India . ( TV : " The Crusade " ) 13th century . Marco Polo once transported an entire army and its equipment from Cathay to India , all without loss . He brought the sacred tooth of Buddha in the other direction , from India to Cathay , where it became one of Kublai Khan ' s most valued possessions . ( TV : " Marco Polo " ) 17th century . The pirate Captain , Henry Avery , acquired treasure belonging to the Mughal of India . ( TV : " The Curse of the Black Spot " ) 18th century . After ruling for three centuries the last emperor of the Mughal dynasty was overthrown by the British in 1756 . The British East India Company ran the country and coordinated its trade . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) 19th century . In 1825 , roads in the Madhya Province were dangerous because of dacoit s and acolytes of Thuggee . ( COMIC : " The Swords of Kali " ) In the late 1830s , the British feared that Russia n expansion in Central Asia posed a threat to the Empire ' s rule in India . In response , British and Indian forces occupied Afghanistan in an attempt to halt Russia ' s expansion in the region , but this provoked resentment from the Afghans and the First Afghan War began . ( PROSE : " Mire and Clay " ) The First Doctor visited India in 1843 , where he met Siger Holmes and learned of a temple that housed a gateway to another world . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) In 1857 , the Indian Mutiny resulted in the abolition of the East India Company and the creation of the Indian Civil Service . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) The First Doctor and Susan visited India during the Mutiny , at which time their lives were saved by David Warblington ' s father . ( PROSE : " The Duke ' s Folly " ) In 1860 , Major William " Bill " Chesterton , the paternal great - grandfather of the First Doctor ' s companion Ian Chesterton , was a member of a Hussar company in Jaipur , India . ( PROSE : " The Eleventh Tiger " ) Some time after she established the Torchwood Institute in 1879 ( TV : " Tooth and Claw " , TV : " The New World " ) , Queen Victoria founded Torchwood India to collect all alien artefacts which fell within the British Raj . ( AUDIO : " Golden Age " ) During the Second Afghan War , British troops entered Afghanistan through India . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) In 1886 , Clemency Eddison became pregnant by a Vespiform in India . He drowned in a monsoon when the River Jumna overflowed its banks , and she returned to England to give birth to the child in secret . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) In 1887 , Siger ' s son Sherlock Holmes accompanied the Seventh Doctor , Benny , and Ace to India to prevent Azathoth from leading an invasion through that gateway . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) Professor George Litefoot visited India on numerous occasions prior to the 1890s . ( AUDIO : " Voyage to Venus " ) James Skinsale served in India during his time in the army . According to him , he was there long enough to " appreciate nature " and so found Leela ' s appearance pleasing when he met her . Lord Palmerdale found Skinsale ' s anecdotes about India even more boring than those about the House of Commons , where he worked as an MP after leaving the army . ( TV : " Horror of Fang Rock " ) 20th century . In 1924 , Captain Jack Harkness was sent to shut down Torchwood India and confiscate all of its artefacts . ( AUDIO : " Golden Age " ) The Fifth Doctor materialised the TARDIS in Calcutta on 31 December 1926 with the intention of taking his companions Nyssa , Tegan Jovanka and Turlough to the second Unofficial Test match between All India and Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) , which was played in the city on that day . The MCC won the match by four wickets . The Doctor considered it to be one of the best cricket matches of all time . ( AUDIO : " The Emerald Tiger " ) Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart was born in India in 1930 and lived there until the age of eight . ( PROSE : " Blood Heat " , " No Future " , " Island of Death " ) India saw the last days of British rule in 1947 , which were marked by internal strife and rioting . The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble accidentally arrived during this time , and were involved in stopping a case of Zytron energy poisoning with the help of Mahatma Gandhi . ( PROSE : " Ghosts of India " ) India gained dominion status later that year . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) People of Asian descent weren ' t common in 1950s rural Britain , and a time - travelling Rani Chandra confused the inhabitants of Foxgrove on 18 August 1951 . Mrs King assumed she was from " the Punjab " . ( TV : " The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith " ) In the 1960s , Ram Vermas , his wife and Haresh Chandra ' s parents moved from India to England . They settled in Nottingham . ( PROSE : " Day of the Clown " ) In the 1970s , a cult based around the Skang moved to Bombay ; Indian Army official Major Chatterjee was UNIT ' s liaison officer in this operation . ( PROSE : " Island of Death " ) Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India in 1984 . As she told the Egypt ian Pharaoh Erimem , Peri Brown considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary Margaret Thatcher . Given that Erimem was from the 14th century BC , she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher . ( AUDIO : " The Eye of the Scorpion " ) 21st century . The Cybermen crossed through the Void to India in 2007 . A group of Cybermen marched on the Taj Mahal , a famous Indian landmark . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) Later in the year , when the Rift opened , among many other phenomena , Jathaa sunglider s appeared over the Taj Mahal . ( TV : " End of Days " ) In 2009 , former Torchwood India staff enacted a plan to return to the whole world to 1924 but were stopped by Torchwood Cardiff . ( AUDIO : " Golden Age " ) In 2009 , Colonel Augustus Oduya noted , among other places across Earth , India to have witnessed every human child being compelled to suddenly stop and proclaim their message : " we are coming " at 8 : 40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September . ( TV : " " ) By 2010 , Ben Jackson and Polly Wright were running an orphanage together in India . ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " ) In the wake of Miracle Day in 2011 , the Prime Minister of India called for peace with Pakistan . ( TV : " Rendition " ) In 2014 , the Scindia family invested in the Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission . ( COMIC : " The Swords of Kali " ) On 28 May 2071 , the Anglo - Indian " Salvage 2 " rocket was launched to clean up Earth ' s orbital junk . ( AUDIO : " Scavenger " ) 22nd century . In the period where Ganger clones were used in acid mining factories , the population of Gangers in India was 10 million . ( TV : " The Almost People " ) 24th century . By 2314 , the country was overpopulated and overrun by poverty and environmental chaos . ( COMIC : " The Swords of Kali " ) In 2367 , when the Silurian Ark was thought to be threatening Earth , the Indian Space Agency summoned the Eleventh Doctor to neutralise the threat . With the Doctor still aboard the ship , they ultimately fired missiles at it in an attempt to destroy the vessel before it reached Earth . The Doctor diverted the missiles towards Solomon ' s ship . ( TV : " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship " ) The Great Catastrophe . At some point prior to the 38th century , Japan and India merged into Indo - Japan due to a tectonic realignment in the wake of the Great Catastrophe . ( TV : " Sleep No More " ) 57th Segment of Time . An Indian elephant was one of the creatures on board the Ark in circa 10 , 000 , 000 . ( TV : " The Ark " ) Parallel universe . In a parallel universe visited by the Third Doctor , India was a member of the Conclave , a super cabinet designed to ensure world peace which was composed of the leaders of Earth ' s five continents . ( PROSE : " The Face of the Enemy " ) References . Clara Oswald had a travel guide to India in her collection . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " ) India was among the places where Winston Churchill fought while serving in the British Army . ( AUDIO : " The Oncoming Story " ) Iris Wildthyme once encountered a manticore in the Indian jungle . ( PROSE : " Minions of the Moon " )