Miss India

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Miss India is an annual, national beauty pageant held in India and organized by Femina & Pantaloons, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, a media group owned by the Sahu Jain family, which also houses the Times of India and Filmfare magazine. The use of Miss India is in no way trademarked. Femina Miss India continues to be one of the highly recognized and well noted pageants to produce International Beauty Queens.

Contents 1 International Pageants 2 Record Breakers 3 Controversies 4 Tragedy 5 List of winners 5.1 List of Femina Miss India Pageant titleholders from 1987 up to this year 6 Femina Winners 6.1 2008 6.2 2007 6.3 2006 6.4 2005 6.5 2004 6.6 2003 6.7 2002 6.8 2001 6.9 2000 6.10 1999 6.11 1998 6.12 1997 6.13 1996 6.14 1995 6.15 1994 6.16 1993 6.17 1992 6.18 1991 6.19 1990 6.20 1989 6.21 1988 6.22 1987 6.23 1986 6.24 1985 6.25 1984 6.26 1983 6.27 1982 6.28 1981 6.29 1980 6.30 1979 6.31 1978 6.32 1977 6.33 1976 6.34 1975 6.35 1974 6.36 1973 6.37 1972 6.38 1971 6.39 1970 6.40 1969 6.41 1968 6.42 1967 6.43 1966 6.44 1965 6.45 1964 6.46 1962 6.47 1961 6.48 1960 6.49 1959 6.50 1954 6.51 1953 6.52 1952 6.53 1947 7 References 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

[edit] International Pageants

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. There is no restriction that the winner of Miss India (or winner of National Title) can participate in Miss World pageant and Miss Universe pageant in the same year, however, 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, however in 2007, the organization changed to send the winner to Miss World and the first runner-up to Miss Universe. 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 1997, 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 World, Miss India Universe and Miss India Asia-Pacific. As of 2002, the third winner would no longer be sent to Miss Asia-Pacific, but to Miss Earth pageant, which is currently recognized as one of the three most prestigious beauty pageants in the world in terms of size and quality^[1].

The awards for 1989 were given at the end of the year (December); hence there was no separate contest for 1990. No contest was held in 1989. In 1988 Eve's Weekly winners Miss India International - Shikha Swaroop and Miss India Earth and Miss Bombay - Shabnam Patel, went on to win Miss MaxFactor in 1989 were very close and almost a tie and therefore both beauty queen's featured for the first time on all the magazine covers together, as stated by Eve's Weekly editor Gulshan Ewing.

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 a leading Bollywood actress

The success of Sushmita Sen spawned a lot of coaching institutions which were set up to groom girls in pageant participation skills. The number of participants in the preliminary rounds of the pageant has increased considerably. Miss India World 1997, Diana Hayden won the title of Miss World 1997.Pageant winners are also groomed for months in preparation for the international contest. In 1999, the Miss India winner Yukta Mukhey went on to win the Miss World that year.

The year 2000 was another landmark year for Miss India. Three of 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). This is the only country to win all three major titles in one year.

[edit] Record Breakers

Miss India 1967, Reita Faria went on to crowned the Miss World 1966, and thus became the first Miss World title holder from India.

India also holds the record for Winning the Miss Universe crown and Miss World in the same year twice. Once in 1994 with Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai and again in 2000, Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra when India also won the third largest pageant Miss Asia Pacific by Indian Beauty Dia Mirza, and in 1997 and 1999 India won Miss World title with Dian Hayden and Yukta Mookhey respectively.

India holds the highest number of Miss World winners only to be tied with Venezuela.

Miss World 1994 winner Aishwarya Rai was also voted the most beautiful of all the Miss World in 2000.

[edit] Controversies

In 2007, there was another change where the title of Femina Miss India-Universe was brought to the 1st Runner-Up title and the title of Femina Miss India-World was the winner's title. Femina Miss India 2006 Neha Kapur was highly offended by the fact that she would be crowning the girl who placed 2nd and not the winner and walked out of the pageant when it was time to crown the 2007 Femina Miss India.

Controversies erupted again in the year 2008 when President of Gladrags, Maureen Wadia served a legal notice to the newly crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India Earth 2008, Harshita Saxena for violation of a two-year exclusive contract with Gladrags which had been signed by Harshita in the year 2006. To participate in any other beauty paegent, Harshita would have required a written letter of no-objection from Gladrags. Earlier in an interview with CNN-IBN Maureen Wadia said, "Harshita Saxena from Goa is a Gladrags model. She was a part of my Megamodel Contract in April 2006. Her contract has not expired and this girl has entered in some other contest before the contract has expired. The contract clearly says that they have to take my permission." Owing to this, Harsita had to give up the title and the crown has now passed on to Tanvi Vyas who will be representing India in the Miss Earth 2008 paegent to be held in the November of 2008.[[1]][[2]]

Miss India 2001 and Fourth Runner Up in the Miss Universe 2001, Celina Jaitley claimed that she was treated unfairly by media and others in Puerto Rico where the pageant was held. The Miss India contest and its succession of many International beauty Queens that had resulted in recent years led to the speculation of the Miss Universe and Miss World competitions being rigged due to the fact that India had won many times in recent years.

[edit] Tragedy

A former Miss India Winner Nafisa Joseph committed suicide on July, 29 2004 hanging herself in her Mumbai flat. She had killed herself due to personal problems with her fiance, whom Nafisa's parents also blamed for the death.

[edit] List of winners

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.

[edit] List of Femina Miss India Pageant titleholders from 1987 up to this year

( NOTE: The winners of their respective titles are indicated in bold format )

Year	Miss India World	Miss India Universe	Miss India International	Miss India Asia-Pacific	Miss India Earth	Miss India Tourism International
1987	Kalpana Raj Pandith	Priyadarshini Pradhan	Erika Maria d'Souza	Jasleem Kaur
1988	Anuradha Kottoor	Dolly Minhas	Viola Anthony	Shikha Swaroop	Shabnam Patel
1989	Naveeda Mehdi	Suzanne Sablok(Pillai)
1990	Naveeda Mehdi	Suzanne Sablok(Pillai)
1991	Ritu Singh	Christablle Howie
1992	Shyla Lopez	Madhu Sapre	Kamal Sandhu	Mehroo Jal Mistry
1993	Karminder Kaur	Namrata Shirodkar	Pooja Batra
1994	Aishwarya Rai	Sushmita Sen	Francesca Hart	Shweta Menon
1995	Preeti Mankotia	Manpreet Brar	Priya Gill	Ruchi Malhotra
1996	Rani Jeyraj	Sandhya Chib	Fleur Xavier	Mini Menon
1997	Diana Hayden	Nafisa Joseph	Dia Abraham	Divya Chauhan
1998	Annie Thomas	Lymaraina D'Souza	Swetha Jaishankar	Vitika Aggarwal
1999	Yukta Mookhey	Gul Panag	Srikrupa Murali	Shivangi Parikh
2000	Priyanka Chopra	Lara Dutta	Gayatri Joshi	Diya Mirza
2001	Sara Corner	Celina Jaitley	Kanwal Toor	Maheshwari	Shamita Singha
2002	Shruti Sharma	Neha Dhupia	Gauhar Khan	Tina Chhatwal	Reshmi Ghosh
2003	Ami Vashi	Nikita Anand	Shonali Nagrani	Shonal Rawat	Swetha Vijay
2004	Sayali Bhagat	Tanushree Dutta	Mihika Verma	Simran Chandok	Jyoti Brahmin
2005	Sindhura Gadde	Amrita Thapar	Vaishali Desai		Niharika Singh	Sonal Chauhan
2006	Natasha Suri	Neha Kapur	Sonali Sehgal		Amruta Patki	Tanya Vakil
2007	Sarah-Jane Dias	Puja Gupta	Esha Gupta		Pooja Chitgopekar	Priyanka Shah
2008	Parvathy Omanakuttan	Simran Kaur Mundi			Tanvi Vyas

[edit] Femina Winners

[edit] 2008

• Miss India World - Parvathy Omanakuttan
• Miss India Universe - Simran Kaur Mundi
• Miss India Earth - []]

[edit] 2007

• Miss India World - Sarah Jane Dias
• Miss India Universe - Puja Gupta, later top 10 semifinalist in Miss Universe 2007
• Miss India Earth - Pooja Chitgopekar, later Miss Air 2007

[edit] 2006

• Miss India Universe - Neha Kapur, later placed among the top 20 semi-finalists at Miss Universe
• Miss India World - Natasha Suri, top 17 semi-finalist, second runner up (beach beauty), second runner up (dress designer award), top 10 (talent round) at the Miss World 2006 pageant held in Warsaw, Poland
• Miss India Earth - Amruta Patki, 1st runner-up at the Miss Earth 2006 pageant held in Manila, Philippines

Remainder of top 5

• Miss India International - Sonali Sehgal, top 12 semifinalist Miss International 2006 in China.
• Miss India Tourism International - Tanya Vakil, 1st runner up at Miss Tourism Queen International 2006.

[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

Remainder of top 5 - Priyanka Jha, Priya Nayak

• Representative at Miss international - Vaishali Desai

[edit] 2004

• Miss India Universe - Tanushree Dutta, later placed among the Top 10 at Miss Universe
• Miss India World - Sayali Bhagat (first won by Lakshmi Pandit, who resigned over allegations regarding her eligibility for the contest, Sayali, who was earlier Miss India-Earth was promoted to the status of Miss India-World.
• Miss India Earth - Jyoti Brahmin, later placed among the Top 16 Semifinalists at Miss Earth
• Miss India Asia -Pacific -Simran Chandok
• Miss India international - Mihika Verma Later placed among the top 12

[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

Rest of top 5: Shonali Nagrani, Parmita Katkar

• Representative at Miss International - Shonali Nagrani, later 1 runner up at Miss International 2003
• Representative at Miss Asia Pacific - Shonal Rawat , later 1 runner up at Miss Asia Pacific

[edit] 2002

• Miss India Universe - Neha Dhupia, later ninth at Miss Universe
• Miss India World - Shruti Sharma semifinalist in miss world 2002
• Miss India Earth - Reshmi Ghosh
• Miss India 1^st Runner Up - Gauhar Khan, later Representative at Miss International
• Miss India 2^nd Runner Up - Tina Chhatwal, Later second runner up at Miss Asia-Pacific

[edit] 2001

• Miss India Universe - Celina Jaitley, later fourth runner-up at Miss Universe
• Miss India World - Sara Corner
• Miss India Asia-Pacific - Maheshwari Thyagarajan

Rest of top 5 - Kanwal Toor, Namita Vankawala

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

[edit] 2000

• Miss India Universe- Lara Dutta, later Miss Universe, 2000 (also Miss Intercontinental 1997)
• Miss India World - Priyanka Chopra, later Miss World, 2000
• Miss India Asia-Pacific International- Diya Mirza, later Miss Asia-Pacific, 2000

Rest of top 5 - Gayatri Jayaraman, Lakshmi Rana

• Representatitive at Miss International- Gayatri Joshi, later semifinalist at Miss International 200
• Miss Talented - Yogini Nath

[edit] 1999

• Miss India Universe - Gul Panag, later sixth place at Miss Universe
• Miss India World - Yukta Mookhey, later Miss World, 1999
• Miss India Asia Pacific - Shivangi Parikh
• Representative at Miss International - Srikrupa Murali

[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 9th at Miss Universe 1997
• Miss India World - Diana Hayden, later Miss World, 1997
• Miss India Asia-Pacific - Divya Chauhan later 1 runner up at Miss Asia Pacific 1997
• Representative at Miss International - Dia Abraham, later 1 runner up at Miss International 1997

[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
• Representative at Miss Asia-Pacific - Shweta Menon, later semi-finalist at Miss Asia-Pacific, 1994
• Miss Tourism World Wide - Barkha Madan, later fourth place, 1994

[edit] 1993

• Miss India - Namrata Shirodkar, later sixth place at Miss Universe
• Miss India first runner-up - Karminder Kaur
• Miss India 2^nd Runner-Up - Pooja Batra

[edit] 1992

• Miss India - Madhu Sapre, later second runner-up at Miss Universe, 1992
• Miss India first runner up - Shyla Lopez
• Miss India Asia Pacific - Mehroo Jal Mistry
• Miss India International - Kamal Sandhu

[edit] 1991

• Miss India - Christablle Howie
• Miss India first runner up - Ritu Singh, later became the 2^nd Runner-up at Miss Asia World, and was a semifinalist at Miss World 1991.

[edit] 1990

• Miss India Universe - Suzanne Sablok(Pillai), later semi-finalist (final 10) at Miss Universe; Second in the Swimsuit Round.
• Miss India World - Naveeda Mehdi

[edit] 1989

• Miss India Universe - Suzanne Sablok(Pillai), later semi-finalist (final 10) at Miss Universe; Second in the Swimsuit Round.
• Miss India World - Naveeda Mehdi

[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 Earth and Miss Bombay - Shabnam Patel

[edit] 1987

• Miss India Universe- Priyadarshini Pradhan
• Miss India World - Kalpana Raj Pandith
• Miss India International - Erika Maria d'Souza, later semifinalist at Miss International
• Miss India Asia Pacific - Jasleem Kaur

[edit] 1986

• Miss India - Mehr Jessia (now Mehr Rampal)
• 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
• Miss India 1^st runner-up - Sweety Grewal

[edit] 1982

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

[edit] 1981

• Miss India - Meenakshi Sheshadri
• Miss India first runner-up - Deepti Divakar

[edit] 1980

• Miss India - Sangeeta Bijlani
• Miss India 1st Runners Up - Arvinda Vinjamuri

[edit] 1979

• Miss India - Swaroop Sampat

[edit] 1978

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

[edit] 1977

• Miss India - Nalini Vishwanathan, withdrew from the Miss World contest because of India's policy against apartheid. ^[2]
• Miss India first runners-up - Veena Prakash.

[edit] 1976

• Miss India winner - Nafisa Ali^[3], later runner-up at the Miss International contest in 1977

[edit] 1975

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

[edit] 1974

• Miss India - Kiran 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
• Miss India second runner-up -Tara Anne Fonseca,later Miss Asia Pacific 1973

[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 Pacific International, 1970.

[edit] 1969

• Miss India - Kavita Bhambani[3][4][5]
• Miss India first runner-up - Adina Shellim^{[citation needed]}

[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

• Miss India (Universe) - Yasmin Daji, later third runner-up Miss Universe, 1966
• Miss India (World)- Reita Faria, later Miss World, 1966

[edit] 1965

Persis Khambatta, who would later become an actress and model best known for her role in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[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

[edit] 1953

Peace Kanwal

[edit] 1952

• Indrani Rehman, first Miss India to participate in Miss Universe
• Nutan

[edit] 1947

Esther Victoria Abraham Khan

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• Category:Femina Miss India winners

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Femina Miss India official website

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