10 Best India Proxies (2026)

India is one of the largest and most distinctive internet markets in the world. Well over a billion people have a mobile connection, most of them get online through a phone rather than a home line, and they shop, order food and pay through platforms built for India. Flipkart and Amazon.in show Indian visitors prices in rupees, bank offers, cash-on-delivery options and delivery dates by PIN code that a visitor in the US or Singapore never sees; Myntra, Meesho and Nykaa run their own catalogues and sale calendars; Swiggy and Zomato change restaurants and fees from one neighbourhood to the next; and Google returns different results on google.co.in — and differently again in Mumbai, Delhi NCR or Bengaluru, in English or in Hindi. If you monitor prices, track Indian search rankings, verify ads, test an app or manage accounts for the Indian market, you need an IP address that Indian websites accept as local.

The problem is that "India" on a proxy provider's location page can mean anything from a handful of datacenter addresses in Mumbai to millions of residential IPs across every state and union territory. We compared 20 providers on what they actually publish for India — the size of their Indian pool, state, city, ISP and carrier targeting, which proxy types they sell with Indian IPs, and what it costs — and picked the 10 that cover the most needs.

Quick picks

• Best overall for India: ProxyEmpire — 466 targetable cities, mobile on Jio, Airtel, Vi and BSNL, static residential IPs, and a $1.97 trial.
• Best for targeting by Indian ISP and carrier: SOAX — publishes its Indian pool by city and by network, from Jio (368K+) and Airtel (289K+) to ACT Fibernet, Excitel and Hathway.
• Best for city coverage and irregular usage: IPRoyal — 1,765,970 Indian IPs claimed across 353 listed cities, with residential traffic that never expires.
• Best for large-scale scraping: Oxylabs — the largest Indian pool claimed (12,219,233 IPs), plus 9,744 datacenter IPs across Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Aligarh.
• Best for enterprise: Bright Data — all four proxy types with Indian IPs, plus city, state, ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting.
• Best budget option: DataImpulse — $1/GB Indian residential traffic that never expires, with 3,041,946 unique Indian IPs seen over 30 days.

Comparison table

Indian IP counts are each provider's own claim from its India page in November 2026. Providers count differently — some count unique IPs seen over a month, some count IPs online at a point in time, some combine proxy types — so the numbers aren't directly comparable. Prices change often; check the provider's pricing page before you buy.

The Indian proxy landscape

Knowing how people in India get online makes it much easier to pick the right proxy type, and to tell whether an IP you've been given looks believable to an Indian website.

Two big mobile operators, and two smaller ones. India's mobile market is led by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel: TRAI's subscription data for June 2026 put Jio at about 39% of wireless subscribers and Airtel at about 38%, followed by Vodafone Idea (Vi) at about 15.5% and the state-owned BSNL at about 7%. MTNL, the other state-owned operator, serves Delhi and Mumbai. A genuine Indian mobile IP should almost always come from one of these networks, and most proxy pools mirror that split — SOAX, for example, lists Jio and Airtel as its two largest Indian networks by far.

Mobile-first, with fast-growing home broadband. Most Indians use the internet mainly or only on a phone, and the vast majority of broadband subscriptions in TRAI's data are wireless. That matters for proxies: Indian websites and apps see huge volumes of mobile traffic, carrier-grade NAT is common, and many users share a single mobile IP, so platforms are cautious about blocking Jio or Airtel ranges. Fixed broadband is growing quickly through JioFiber and Jio AirFiber, Airtel Xstream Fiber, ACT Fibernet, BSNL, Hathway and Excitel, plus regional operators such as Asianet and Kerala Vision in Kerala, GTPL in Gujarat and Alliance Broadband and Meghbela in West Bengal — names you'll see in residential pools.

States and big cities matter. India has 28 states and 8 union territories, and residential IPs cluster in the biggest metros: Mumbai, Delhi NCR (including Gurugram, Noida and Ghaziabad), Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Pune, followed by Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Surat. SOAX says Bengaluru, New Delhi and Chennai alone hold 42% of its Indian IPs. If you need IPs in the North-East, Jammu and Kashmir or smaller tier-3 towns, check availability before you commit. India runs on a single time zone (IST, UTC+5:30), which keeps browser setup simple.

Local platforms dominate key categories. Flipkart and Amazon.in lead general e-commerce, Myntra leads fashion, Meesho dominates low-cost and social commerce, Nykaa leads beauty, and Swiggy and Zomato split food delivery and quick commerce. Payments run overwhelmingly through UPI apps such as PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm, and search runs through google.co.in. These sites localise prices, stock and delivery options by PIN code, and the larger ones run modern bot protection — especially during the big festive sales such as Flipkart's Big Billion Days and Amazon's Great Indian Festival.

Some services block foreign traffic, and some apps are blocked in India. Several Indian government, banking and ticketing sites restrict or slow access from outside India, which is one reason testers need Indian IPs. In the other direction, India has blocked a number of apps since June 2020 — including TikTok — under section 69A of the IT Act, so an Indian IP won't show you those services either.

1. ProxyEmpire — Best overall for India

ProxyEmpire publishes the most India-specific product page we found. It claims 466 targetable cities and towns, from Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai to Guwahati, Shillong, Imphal, Agartala, Gangtok, Panaji, Shimla and Puducherry. Its coverage statement isn't consistent, though: the page says "28 states and 8 union territories" in one place and "all 28 states and 7 union territories" or "35 regions" in others. It doesn't give any Indian IP count.

Its targeting goes further than most. Rotating residential traffic can be narrowed by state, city, ZIP, ASN, OS fingerprint and named ISP — Jio, Airtel, BSNL, ACT Fibernet, Hathway, Excitel, Tata Play Fiber, Asianet, Kerala Vision, GTPL, Meghbela, Alliance Broadband, Netplus and AP FiberNet among them. Rotating mobile proxies run on Jio, Airtel, Vi (Vodafone Idea) and BSNL, with state, city, ZIP, carrier, ASN and OS targeting.

Rotating residential costs $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go and falls from about $2.85/GB on the 7 GB Starter plan ($20) to $1.50/GB on the 1,000 GB Enterprise plan ($1,500), with custom pricing from $0.75/GB above 5 TB. Rotating mobile starts from $2/GB and rotating datacenter from $0.35/GB (40 GB for $25). ProxyEmpire also sells static residential IPs in India: $3.50 for a single IP, falling to $2 per IP a month at 2,000 IPs, with country-level targeting only. A $1.97 trial is available; the India page doesn't state the trial size or refund terms, so read the refund policy before you buy a larger plan.

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2. SOAX — Best for targeting by Indian ISP and carrier

SOAX doesn't give a single total for India, but it publishes a breakdown of its Indian pool by city and by network. Its top cities are Bengaluru (75K+ IPs), New Delhi (66K+), Chennai (57K+), Hyderabad (57K+) and Pune (47K+), followed by Mumbai (44K+), Delhi (35K+), Kolkata (32K+), Jaipur (30K+) and Ahmedabad (25K+). Its network list is led by Jio (368K+) and Airtel (289K+), then Airtel Broadband (69K+), Vodafone Idea (61K+), BSNL (58K+), ACT Fibernet (36K+), Excitel (15K+), Hathway (13K+), RailTel (11K+) and Netplus Broadband (10K+).

That transparency makes SOAX the easiest provider to plan carrier-level work with: you can see in advance that Jio and Airtel dominate its Indian pool, and target a specific network when you need to reproduce what a Jio or Vi subscriber sees. Targeting covers country, region, city, ISP or mobile carrier and ASN, with ZIP or postal-code targeting on the Scale and Enterprise plans. The page sells residential and mobile as "two networks, one price"; it lists no Indian datacenter IPs.

India is in SOAX's Tier 2 price band. The India page shows the Builder plan at $2.25/GB on a $200 monthly plan (plus $25 in extra credits). There is no free Indian trial — SOAX says you can create a free Sandbox account with no subscription fee, but it only sends traffic once you buy top-up credits. The India page doesn't list the other plan tiers or say when credits expire, so check the pricing page before you commit.

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3. IPRoyal — Best for city coverage and irregular usage

IPRoyal claims 1,765,970 unique Indian IPs (the same page rounds this up to "nearly 2M Indian proxies") and lists 353 Indian cities — not just the metros, but state capitals such as Itanagar, Kohima, Aizawl, Gangtok and Port Blair, union territory towns such as Daman, Diu, Silvassa and Kavaratti, and small towns across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal and Rajasthan. It sells every product type in India: rotating residential, ISP (static residential), mobile and datacenter proxies.

Its main advantage for residential use is that traffic never expires. Indian projects often run in bursts — a Big Billion Days or Great Indian Festival price audit, a Diwali campaign check, a quarterly SEO review — so buying a block of gigabytes and using it over months can work out cheaper than a monthly plan. The "from $1.75/GB" on the India page is IPRoyal's top-volume rate; small purchases cost considerably more per GB.

IPRoyal lists India for its ISP proxies from $1.80 per proxy, which suits a campaign that needs one stable Indian IP for a few days. Mobile proxies start from $10.11 per day and datacenter proxies from $1.39 per proxy, all over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5. The India page doesn't name the Indian ISPs or carriers behind these products.

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4. Oxylabs — Best for large-scale scraping

Oxylabs claims the biggest Indian figure of any provider we checked: 12,219,233 IPs. The same page also invites you to scrape "from 6M+ IPs", so the headline number is best read as an upper bound — but either way it's one of the deepest Indian pools available, with country, state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting.

Its India page lists residential, mobile and dedicated datacenter proxies. The datacenter product is concentrated in a few hubs: 6,016 IPs in Mumbai, 2,560 in Pune, 656 in New Delhi and 512 in Aligarh, with HTTP(S) and SOCKS5. That's useful for monitoring lightly protected Indian sites at speed, and a reminder that "Indian datacenter IPs" usually means hosting ranges around Mumbai, where most of India's cloud regions sit.

The India page quotes residential and SOCKS5 proxies from $2.50/GB, Indian mobile proxies from $3.50/GB and dedicated datacenter proxies from $1.20 per IP. These are "starts from" rates that apply to larger plans, so expect a subscription rather than cheap pay-as-you-go access for serious volume. The India page doesn't mention a free trial.

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5. Bright Data — Best for enterprise

Bright Data is one of only two providers on this list that sells all four proxy types with Indian IPs — residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter — and it offers some of the deepest targeting: Indian traffic can be narrowed by city, state, ZIP code, carrier and ASN, so you can pick a Jio, Airtel or Vi network specifically.

Its Indian pool size is unclear, though. The India page's title claims 4,705,624 proxy IPs, while the page body says 1,806,332 India IPs. The smaller figure may count only one product or IPs online at one moment, but Bright Data doesn't say. The page names no Indian cities or carriers, so confirm availability in the dashboard before you commit.

Pricing is the main trade-off. Bright Data's residential pricing page advertises plans from $5.88/GB, and the India page offers to match your first deposit up to $500; ISP, mobile and datacenter prices aren't shown as readable fixed figures on the India page. If you need one supplier for every proxy type in India, with procurement-friendly contracts, Bright Data is the strongest option; for a single residential use case, the providers above are cheaper.

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6. Decodo — Best for an easy, low-risk start

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells residential, mobile and datacenter proxies with Indian IPs, and its India page names the networks behind them — Jio, Airtel and Vi — and city targeting across Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad, with coverage described across India's 28 states and 8 union territories. It doesn't publish an India-specific IP count: the only figure on the page, 18.3M+ IPs, is for Asia as a whole.

What Decodo does well is make starting easy. The India page quotes pay-as-you-go residential from $2/GB, mobile from $2.25/GB and datacenter from $0.020 per IP. Its entry monthly plans are 3 GB of residential at $3.75/GB ($11.25), 10 GB of datacenter at $0.60/GB ($6) and 2 GB of mobile at a discounted $3.75/GB ($7.50), all plus VAT. The cheaper headline rates apply at higher volumes.

New users can get a 3-day free trial with 100 MB, and the India page offers a 14-day money-back option; the page doesn't spell out the conditions, so read the refund terms before you rely on it. That makes Decodo a good way to check whether Indian residential or mobile IPs work on your targets before committing to a more India-focused provider.

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7. Novada — Best for Indian ISP proxies

Novada sells both static ISP and rotating ISP proxies in India, alongside residential and datacenter proxies, and its India page claims 11,041,134 Indian IPs in total — the second-largest figure on this list. That combination is useful: most providers either don't sell ISP proxies in India or only offer one kind.

Static ISP IPs are the practical choice if you need one stable Indian IP per account for weeks — a Flipkart or Amazon.in seller account, or an Indian Meta or Google Ads account — while rotating ISP traffic gives you ISP-registered IPs that change per request, which can be faster and steadier than peer-to-peer residential exits. City-level targeting is free.

The India page quotes residential from $1.30/GB, rotating ISP from $0.65/GB and static ISP from $1.18 per IP; these are "starts from" rates, so check the checkout price for your plan size. The page title advertises mobile proxies too, but the page itself lists no Indian mobile product or price, and no datacenter price. Novada doesn't publish which Indian cities or ISPs are available, and the India page lists HTTP(S) only.

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8. DataImpulse — Best budget option

DataImpulse has the lowest pay-as-you-go price on this list for Indian residential traffic: $1/GB, falling to $0.80/GB at 1 TB, and traffic never expires. It's also unusually transparent about how many Indian IPs are actually online. Its India residential page reports 3,041,946 unique IPs over 30 days, 562,012 in the last 24 hours and 6,191 active in real time.

That last figure is the one to watch. A large 30-day total with a much smaller real-time pool is normal for peer-to-peer networks, where phones and home routers come and go, but it means DataImpulse suits country-level price monitoring on Flipkart or Amazon.in at moderate request rates better than heavy, city-specific crawling. Sticky sessions last up to 120 minutes, and a $5 starter pack (5 GB) works as a low-risk trial.

Targeting is where you need to read carefully. Country-level targeting is free, but state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting are marked as "extra costs". DataImpulse states that it doesn't offer static residential IPs in India, and the India page doesn't publish mobile or datacenter prices.

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9. Webshare — Best for cheap Indian datacenter IPs

Webshare is the cheapest way to get a batch of Indian IPs for lightly protected targets. Its India page lists 589,451 online IPs across its products, with datacenter proxies from $0.029 per IP on small plans and as little as $0.0179 per IP on very large ones. It also sells static residential and rotating residential proxies, with country, city, state, ZIP and ASN targeting on rotating residential.

Webshare's Indian residential pricing is less clear: the same page says both "as low as $1.40/GB" and "from $7.00/Month for 1 GB". The higher figure is the entry plan and the lower one a large-volume rate, so check the checkout price for your plan size. A free plan with 10 proxies, no credit card required, lets you test the dashboard first.

Shared datacenter IPs are a poor fit for Flipkart, Amazon.in or social platforms, which flag hosting ranges quickly. They're useful for crawling Indian news sites and public government data portals, or for checking your own site's Indian CDN edge at very low cost.

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10. Rayobyte — Best for consent-based sourcing

Rayobyte sells Indian Premium Residential proxies and static IPs. Its India page says its residential IPs come "from people in India who opted in" and that "every device opted in", which matters if your compliance team needs to document how a supplier's exit nodes were sourced — a question that becomes more pressing as India's DPDP Rules take effect. It doesn't publish an Indian IP count, cities or ISPs, but it supports city, PIN code and ASN targeting.

Premium Residential costs $0.70 to $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go, and from $0.50/GB through sales on larger commitments. Every product works over HTTP(S); SOCKS5 is included on Premium Residential and available on request on other products. Self-serve products come with a free trial, no credit card needed.

Note that Rayobyte's static Indian IPs are dedicated datacenter addresses, not static residential (ISP) IPs, priced from $0.85 per IP a month at scale with a commitment. They're fine for lightly protected targets, but not a substitute for an ISP proxy on account work.

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Other providers we considered

• Infatica — lists 15 Indian cities, from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore to Lucknow, Kanpur, Nagpur and Indore, with residential traffic from $4/GB pay-as-you-go (down to $2.60/GB on the 1,000 GB monthly plan) and a $4 trial (1 GB or 7 days). Its India page gives three different pool sizes: 40,318 IPs in the page title, 274,277 in the body and "over 100,000" elsewhere.
• MarsProxies — its India page claims 137,270 Indian IPs across 16 named cities, with residential from $1.65/GB, ISP from $1.35 per proxy, datacenter from $0.99 per proxy and mobile from $8.49 a day, but names no Indian networks.
• Geonode — the lowest per-GB price we saw ($0.79/GB, down to $0.27/GB at scale), named Indian networks (Jio, Airtel, Vi, BSNL) with ISP-level targeting, and a $5 trial with 10 GB for 3 days, but its India page contradicts itself: 84,210 Indian IPs in 12 cities in the page body, "over 1 million" elsewhere in the body, and 27,596 residential IPs across 6 cities in its page description.
• Proxy-Seller — sells dedicated Indian IPv4 proxies (with ISP, IPv6, mobile and residential options) from $0.90 per IP, with unlimited bandwidth and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, but lists only New Delhi as a location and publishes no Indian IP count or carriers.
• Floppydata — lists rotating proxies from $1/GB, static residential IPs from $1.79 a month and static datacenter IPs from $0.79 a month for India, but publishes no Indian IP count, cities or ISPs.
• NodeMaven — its India page describes clean residential and mobile Indian IPs with HTTPS and SOCKS5 support, but we couldn't find published Indian IP counts, cities, carriers or India-specific prices.
• Thordata, Live Proxies and HypeProxies — we found no India location page for any of them.
• NetNut — not recommended. On 2 July 2026 the FBI seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, and Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported that it disrupted the NetNut residential proxy network and the associated "Popa" botnet.

Which proxy type do you need for India?

Indian use cases: practical tips

Flipkart, Amazon.in and Myntra monitoring. These are the core of Indian e-commerce and well protected against bots. Use rotating Indian residential IPs, keep a sticky session for each "visit" rather than rotating on every request, and set a delivery PIN code where the site asks for one — prices, bank offers and delivery dates often depend on it. Prices change fastest around the festive sales (Flipkart's Big Billion Days and Amazon's Great Indian Festival, usually in September or October ahead of Diwali) and the mid-year sales, so plan for traffic spikes — and stricter bot protection — on those dates.

Swiggy, Zomato and quick commerce. Restaurant menus, delivery fees and quick-commerce stock vary by neighbourhood within the same city. Use city-targeted residential or mobile IPs, set the delivery location explicitly in each session, and crawl slowly — these platforms are mobile-first and watch for unusual request patterns. Collect only the data you need, especially where listings include personal details.

Seller and social accounts. Flipkart, Amazon.in and Meesho seller accounts, and Instagram or WhatsApp Business accounts, are linked by IP, device and payment details, and most registrations need an Indian mobile number and, for sellers, GST and bank details. Use one static ISP or dedicated mobile IP per account, match the browser or device profile to that IP, and never share an IP between accounts you want to keep separate. Proxies don't remove the need to follow each platform's rules on multiple accounts.

Local SEO on google.co.in. Google localises Indian results by city and language. Use city targeting, set gl=in and hl=en or hl=hi, and send a matching Accept-Language header (en-IN or hi-IN). Many Indian users search in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi or in transliterated "Hinglish", so track regional-language keywords if your audience uses them. For large keyword sets, a SERP API may be cheaper than running your own browser through proxies.

Ad verification and app testing. Indian campaigns are frequently targeted by state, city, language and mobile carrier, and a large share of ad inventory is in apps. Mobile proxies with carrier targeting (ProxyEmpire, SOAX, Bright Data) let you see exactly what a Jio, Airtel or Vi subscriber sees, which matters for in-app and mobile-web placements and for testing UPI and checkout flows in your own app.

Streaming and cricket. Indian streaming services and the Indian catalogues of global services restrict content to India and block known proxy and datacenter ranges — live cricket in particular is tightly geo-restricted. Residential or mobile IPs are less likely to be blocked, but per-GB pricing makes video expensive, and circumventing geo-restrictions may breach the service's terms. Don't buy proxies primarily for this.

How to test an Indian proxy

Before you scale up, spend a few minutes checking that the IPs you're given really look Indian and don't leak your own identity.

1. Check geolocation in more than one database. Use two or three IP lookup services. Geolocation databases disagree, especially for mobile IPs: Jio and Airtel route traffic through a small number of regional gateways, so a mobile IP often geolocates to Mumbai, Delhi or another hub regardless of where the subscriber actually is.
2. Check the ASN. An Indian residential or mobile IP should belong to a consumer network such as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, BSNL, ACT Fibernet, Hathway or Excitel. An ASN belonging to a hosting company, VPN or cloud provider means you've been given a datacenter or VPN-like exit, whatever the product page says.
3. Match your browser to India. Set the Accept-Language header to en-IN (or hi-IN), the browser locale to English (India) and the time zone to Asia/Kolkata. India has a single time zone, so any other offset is an obvious mismatch for anti-bot systems.
4. Check for leaks. Test for WebRTC and DNS leaks, and make sure your real IPv6 address isn't bypassing the proxy on a dual-stack connection — Jio and Airtel use IPv6 heavily, so check which protocol your requests actually leave on.
5. Measure latency from where your scraper runs. Exit nodes in India add latency if your servers are in Europe or the US, and peer-to-peer mobile exits can be slow. Run your scraper from a nearby cloud region (such as Mumbai, Hyderabad or Singapore) where possible, and compare time-to-first-byte across providers during their trials.
6. Test against your real targets. A proxy that passes an IP checker can still be blocked by Flipkart or Swiggy. Run a small batch against the sites you care about and measure the success rate before buying a large plan.

Is it legal to use proxies in India?

Yes — using a proxy, VPN or other intermediary is legal in India. What you do through it is what matters, and three areas of law are most relevant:

• Unauthorised access. The Information Technology Act, 2000 is India's main cyber law. Section 43 makes a person liable to pay compensation for accessing a computer system or network without the owner's permission, or for downloading or extracting data from it, and section 66 makes the same acts a criminal offence when done dishonestly or fraudulently. Bypassing logins, paywalls or technical access controls you aren't entitled to use can fall under these provisions, whether or not you use a proxy.
• Personal data. If you collect data about people in India — names, profiles, contact details, reviews — the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) is the relevant law. The government notified the DPDP Rules in November 2025 with an 18-month phased timeline, so most obligations on businesses apply from May 2027. You need a lawful basis such as consent, and you should minimise what you collect; don't assume that data is free to use just because it's visible on a public page.
• Logging rules for VPN and cloud providers. CERT-In's directions of 28 April 2022 require VPN, VPS, cloud and data centre providers serving India to keep validated subscriber details — names, addresses, contact numbers, the IP addresses allotted to them and the purpose of use — for five years, and all service providers to keep ICT system logs for 180 days. These rules are aimed at the providers, not at people who use a proxy or VPN, and they don't make using one unlawful, but they're one reason some VPN services moved their servers out of India.

Website terms of use may also restrict automated access, and scraping public pages isn't automatically lawful just because the data is visible. Choose a provider that explains how it obtains consent from the people whose devices route traffic, and avoid networks with no clear operator. This section is general information, not legal advice; take advice specific to your project if you plan large-scale collection of Indian data.

Related guides

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