India in 34 international organisations.

The Quad is a strategic security dialogue between India, Japan, Australia, and the United States focused on a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. Relaunched at the leader level in 2021 after years of dormancy, the Quad now coordinates on maritime security, supply chains, vaccines, climate, and critical technologies through working groups and annual summits.

BRICS is a grouping of major emerging economies that coordinates on trade, finance, and Global South governance reform. After the 2024 Johannesburg expansion, it now includes ten members. India participates actively as the world's most populous country but maintains strategic independence on issues where BRICS positions diverge from Indian interests - notably on the Russia-Ukraine war, financial dedollarisation, and China border tensions.

A four-country grouping bringing together India, Israel, the UAE and the United States on six priority areas: food security, water, energy, transportation, space and health. Stood up in 2022 following the I2U2 Leaders' Summit, the grouping operates project-by-project, with two flagship investments announced in its founding year.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is Eurasia's largest regional security and economic grouping, covering over 40% of the world's population and 30% of global GDP. Founded in 2001 from the Shanghai Five (1996), the SCO began as a border-dispute resolution mechanism between China, Russia, and Central Asian states before evolving into a broad political, security, and economic platform. India joined as a full member in 2017 alongside Pakistan, making it one of the SCO's largest members by population and economy. The 2025 Tianjin Summit — SCO's 25th — adopted a ten-year Development Strategy (2026–2035) and saw the grouping expand to 27 members. India's participation reflects its strategic autonomy doctrine: engaging with a China- and Russia-led forum while maintaining its own positions on connectivity, sovereignty, and counter-terrorism.

The India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum is a trilateral grouping of three large Southern democracies — one from each of Asia, Latin America, and Africa — formed in 2003 to coordinate Global South positions on trade, governance, and development. Unlike BRICS, which includes China and Russia, IBSA is explicitly a forum of democracies, making it a distinctive voice within the broader Global South coalition. Operating through 14 working groups, 6 people-to-people forums, and the IBSA Fund for poverty alleviation, the grouping has punched above its weight on UN reform, WTO negotiations, and development cooperation. The November 2025 IBSA Leaders' Meeting — held on the sidelines of the G20 Johannesburg Summit — reinvigorated the forum after a period of relative dormancy, with PM Modi calling IBSA 'a key platform connecting three continents, democracies, and economies.'

The Group of Twenty (G20) is an international forum comprising 19 sovereign countries and two regional bodies (the European Union and the African Union) that serves as the premier global platform for discussing and coordinating international economic policy. Established in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis and elevated to heads-of-state level in 2008, the G20 addresses critical global issues including financial stability, climate change, trade, and sustainable development. Collectively, G20 members represent approximately 85% of global GDP, 75% of global trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population. The forum operates under a rotating annual presidency with no permanent secretariat, steering its agenda through parallel Finance Track and Sherpa Track meetings before culminating in an annual leaders' summit. Recent summits have highlighted themes such as solidarity and sustainability (South Africa 2025), green transitions and digital infrastructure (India 2023), and the integration of emerging economies into global governance.