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Neha Dhupia, Miss India 2002
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Neha Dhupia, Miss India 2002

Femina Miss India is an annual, national beauty pageant held in India and organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, a media group which also houses the Times of India and Filmfare magazine. The use of Miss India is in no way trademarked. In the 1940s and 1950s, a small, conservative contest was held by the press where the title was bestowed. From 1959 into the late 1980s, Eve's Weekly, a rival magazine, held its own "Miss India" contest. Star TV, one of India's largest channels, also has held a tv-based "Miss India" contest.

The Femina Miss India competition began in 1964 as a small, closed-off event. From that year, Femina gained the local license to the international Miss Universe competition. Towards the end of the 1960s, it picked up licenses to both Miss World and the Miss Asia-Pacific Quest. In the early 1990's, it finally picked up the license for Miss International. Femina Miss India has been held annually, except for 1989.

Miss India are the winners of the Miss India beauty pageant held annually. Starting 1964, the pageant has been held by the Femina magazine, and is referred to as Femina Miss India. Prior to 1964, Miss India was selected by Eve's weekly in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1962. In 1947 and 1952, the winners were chosen by the Indian press.

Juhi Chawla, Miss India 1984
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Juhi Chawla, Miss India 1984

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 but are called Miss India winners, are 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 the Bengali Tigress, Sushmita Sen won the Miss Universe title after winning the Miss India crown. Sushmita Sen became the first Indian woman ever to win the Miss Universe crown. The same year the runner-up of Miss India, Aishwarya Rai, won the Miss World title. Both the Miss Universe and Miss World contests were won by Miss Indias [[Sushmita Sen]Miss India] and [[Aishwarya Rai]Miss India 94 runner-up] respectively. Today Rai is a global star and the top Bollywood actress. After Sushmita Sen became a beauty queen, 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).

[edit] List of winners

Nutan, Miss India 1952
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Nutan, Miss India 1952

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.


2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987 - 1986 - 1985 - 1984 - 1983 - 1982 - 1981 - 1980 - 1979 - 1978 - 1977 - 1976 - 1975 - 1974 - 1973 - 1972 - 1971 - 1970 - 1969 - 1968 - 1967 - 1966 - 1965 - 1964 - 1962 - 1961 - 1960 - 1959 -- 1954 - 1953 - 1952 - 1947

[edit] 2006

  • Miss India Universe - Neha Kapur, later placed among the top 20 semi-finalists at Miss Universe
  • Miss India World - Natasha Suri
  • Miss India Earth - Amruta Patki,1st runner-up Miss Earth 2006 held in Manila, Philippines

[edit] 2005

  • 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
  • Representative at Miss International - Vaishali Desai
  • Representative at Miss Asia Pacific - Simran Chandok

[edit] 2004

  • 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
  • Representative at Miss International - Mahika Varma, later semi-finalist Miss International

[edit] 2003

  • Miss India Universe - Nikita Anand
  • Miss India World - Ami Vashi, later 3 runner up at Miss World 2003
  • Miss India Earth - Swetha Vijay

[edit] 2002

  • Miss India Universe - Neha Dhupia, later ninth at Miss Universe
  • Miss India World - Shruti Sharma, later semi-finalist at Miss World (top 20)
  • Miss India Earth - Reshmi Ghosh
  • Representative at Miss Asia-Pacific - Tina Chatwal, later second runner-up Miss Asia Pacific, 2002
  • Representative at Miss International - Gauhar Khan

[edit] 2001

  • 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 Earth - Shamita Singha, later fifth place at Miss Earth (first contestant from India ever to compete)
  • Miss India International - Kanwal Toor, later semi-finalist Miss International

[edit] 2000

[edit] 1999

[edit] 1998

  • Miss India Universe - Lymaraina D'souza, later seventh place at Miss Universe
  • Miss India World - Annie Thomas
  • Miss India Asia Pacific - Vitika Aggarwal
  • Representative at Miss International - Swetha Jaishankar, later second runner-up at Miss International

[edit] 1997

  • Miss India Universe - Nafisa Joseph, later tenth place at Miss Universe
  • Miss India World - Diana Hayden, later Miss World, 1997
  • Miss India Asia-Pacific - Fashion model Divya Chauhan, later first runner-up at Miss Asia Pacific, 1997, date of birth 1966. Living with her five daughter with her husband Mr. Dawood Ibrahim their marriage was held in the year 1993. She has died 13 December 2006(BREAST CANCER)at West Bengal,India,she was hidden spy of CID intlligence in india and part of KGB spy. VISIT HER IMAGE WHICH WAS HER DIVYA CHAUAN BEFORE SHE WAS DIED PHOTO,http://au.news.yahoo.com/061103/19/11al3.html
  • Representative at Miss International - Diya Abraham, later first runner-up at Miss International

[edit] 1996

  • Miss India Universe- Sandhya Chib, later seventh place at Miss Universe, 1996
  • Miss India World - Rani Jeyraj, later third runner-up at Miss World, 1996
  • Miss India Asia-Pacific - Mini Menon, later semi-finalist at Miss Asia Pacific 1996
  • Representative at Miss International - Fleur Dominique Xavier

[edit] 1995

  • Miss India Universe - Manpreet Brar, later first runner-up at Miss Universe
  • Miss India World - Preeti Mankotia
  • Miss India Asia-Pacific - Ruchi Malhotra, later first runner-up at Miss Asia Pacific
  • Representative at Miss International - Priya Gill

[edit] 1994

  • Miss India Universe - Sushmita Sen, later Miss Universe, 1994
  • Miss India World - Aishwarya Rai, later Miss World, 1994
  • Miss India International - Francesca Hart
  • Miss India Asia-Pacific - Swetha Memon, later semi-finalist at Miss Asia-Pacific, 1994
  • Miss Tourism World Wide - Barkha Madan, later fourth place, 1994

[edit] 1993

[edit] 1992

  • Miss India - 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

[edit] 1991

  • Miss

[edit] 1990

  • Miss India Universe - Suzanne Sablok(Pillai), later semi-finalist (final 10) at Miss Universe
  • Miss India World - Naveeda Mehdi

1991 - Francsca Hart

[edit] 1989

  • not held

[edit] 1988

  • Miss India Universe- Dolly Minhas
  • Miss India World - Anuradha Kottoor
  • Miss India Asia Pacific - Viola Anthony
  • Miss India International - Shikha Swaroop
  • Miss India First Runner-Up - Shabnam Patel, went on to win Miss MaxFactor in 1989

[edit] 1987

  • Miss India Universe- Priyadarshini Pradhan
  • Miss India World - Manisha Kohli
  • Miss India International - Erika Maria d'Souza, later semifinalist at Miss Iinternational
  • Miss India Asia Pacific - Jasleem Kaur

[edit] 1986

  • Miss India - Mehr Jessia
  • Miss India first runner-up - Maureen Lestourgen

[edit] 1985

  • Miss India - Sonu Walia
  • Miss India first runner-up - Sharon Clarke

[edit] 1984

  • Miss India - Juhi Chawla
  • Miss India first runner-up - Suchita Kumar

[edit] 1983

  • Miss India - Rekha Hande
  • Miss India first runner-up - Sweety Grewal

[edit] 1982

  • Miss India -[Pamela Singh]]
  • Miss India first runner-up - Uttara Mhatre

[edit] 1981

  • Miss India - Ruchita Kumar, now known by the name Nandini Thackersey
  • Miss India first runner-up - Deepti Divakar

[edit] 1980

[edit] 1979

  • Miss India - Swaroop Sampat
  • Miss India first Ruhel from bangladesh - Raina Winifred Mendonca

[edit] 1978

  • Miss India - Alamjeet Chauhan
  • Miss India first runner-up - Kalpana Iyer, later 11th Place Miss World

[edit] 1977

  • Miss India - Nalini Vishwanathan
  • Miss India first runner-up - Veena Prakash, withdrew from the Miss World contest because of India's policy against apartheid

[edit] 1976

  • 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

[edit] 1975

  • Miss India - Meenakshi Kurpad
  • Miss India first runner-up - Anjana Sood, later semi-finalist at Miss World

[edit] 1974

  • Miss India - Shailini Dholakia, later semi-finalist at Miss Universe, 1974

[edit] 1973

  • Miss India - Farzana Habib, later semi-finalist Miss Universe
  • Miss India first runner-up - none

[edit] 1972

  • Miss India - Roopa Satyan, later semi-finalist Miss Universe
  • Miss India first runner-up - Malathi Basappa, later fourth runner-up at Miss World

[edit] 1971

  • Miss India - Raj Gill
  • Miss India first runner-up - Prema Narayan

[edit] 1970

  • 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.

[edit] 1969

  • Miss India - Kavita Bhambani
  • Miss India first runner-up - Adina Shellim

[edit] 1968

  • Miss India - Anjum Mumtaz Baig
  • Miss India first runner-up - Jane Coelho

[edit] 1967

  • Miss India - Nayyara Mirza, now known by the name Nalini Patel
  • Miss India first runner-up - none

[edit] 1966

[edit] 1965

Persis Khambatta

[edit] 1964

Meher Mistry, later known as Meher Castelino

[edit] 1962

Ferial Karim, later semi-finalist Miss World

[edit] 1961

Veronica Torcato

[edit] 1960

Iona Pinto, first runner-up at the 1960 Miss International Pageant.

[edit] 1959

Fleur Ezekiel, first Miss India to participate in Miss World

[edit] 1954

Leela Naidu- Vogue (magazine) voted her as one of the worlds most beautiful women.She married M.S.Oberoi's son,later poet Dom Moraes.She acted in Merchant Ivory Productions starring opposite Shashi Kapoor.

[edit] 1953

Peace Kanwal

[edit] 1952

[edit] 1947

Esther Victoria Abraham, known as Pramila

[edit] Reference

  • The Pride of India, a cofffe table book on former Miss Indias, by Persis Khambatta, Miss India 1965

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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