List of think tanks in India

India has the fifth-largest number of think tanks in the world. Many of them are headquartered at its capital New Delhi and most of them are government aided and privately funded.

The following is the list of notable Indian think tanks:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• Association for Democratic Reforms – New Delhi
• Brookings Institution, India Centre – New Delhi
• Centre for Asian Strategic Studies-India (CASS-India) – New Delhi
• Centre for Civil Society (CCS) – New Delhi
• Centre for Development Studies – Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• Centre for Land Warfare Studies – New Delhi
• Centre for Policy Research – New Delhi
• Centre for Public Policy Research – Kochi, Kerala
• Centre for Public Policy – Bangalore, Karnataka
• Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) – New Delhi
• Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) - Bangalore
• Forum of Free Enterprise – Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Foundation for Democratic Reforms – Hyderabad, Telangana
• Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations
• India Foundation – New Delhi
• Indian Council of World Affairs – New Delhi
• Indian Liberal Group – Mumbai
• The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)
• Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) – New Delhi
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development – New Delhi
• Institute of Economic Growth – New Delhi
• Institute of Food Security – Gurgaon, Haryana
• Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) – New Delhi
• International Growth Centre (IGC)
• The Jadavpur Association of International Relations – Kolkata, West Bengal
• Karnataka Knowledge Commission – Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Lawyers Collective
• National Academy of Agricultural Sciences – New Delhi
• National Council of Applied Economic Research – New Delhi
• National Knowledge Commission – New Delhi
• National Maritime Foundation (NMF) – New Delhi
• Observer Research Foundation – New Delhi; Mumbai, Maharashtra
• PRS Legislative Research – New Delhi
• Public Health Foundation of India – New Delhi
• Research Foundation for Governance in India – Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG)
• Strategic Foresight Group – Mumbai, Maharashtra
• The Takshashila Institution – Bangalore, Karnataka
• United Service Institution of India – New Delhi
• Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) – New Delhi

See also

• List of think tanks

External links

• Kably, Lubna (24 January 2015). "At 192, India Has 5th Most Thinktanks in the World". Times News Network (via The Times of India ). Retrieved 22 June 2015.