Miss India: Glimpses of past

Gul Panag, Miss India Universe 1999 beauty pageant. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Gul Panag after winning Miss India Universe 1999 beauty pageant. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Miss India World 1998, Annie Thomas, Miss India Universe 1998, Lymaraina D' Souza and Miss India Asia Pacific 1998, Vithika Aggarwal pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL)

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL/S N Kulkarni)

Year 1999 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Yukta Mookhey, Gul Panag and Shivangi Parikh respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Miss India World 1999, Yukta Mookhey poses for photoshoot. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Femina Miss India 1998 contestant, Gauri Pradhan. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Miss India World 1999, Yukta Mookhey. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL)

Priyanka Chopra as a participant at Palmolive Femina Miss India beauty pageant. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Miss India Asia-Pacific 2000, Diana Hayden. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL)

Miss India 1977, Nalini Vishwanathan who refused to participate in Miss Universe in compliance to her father's stand of not allowing her to. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL/S N Kulkarni)

Supermodel Cindy Crawford and fashion designer Suneet Verma at Femina beauty contest, 1998. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Ujwala Raut after winning look of the year, 1996. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Shriram Vernekar)

Ujwala Raut with Look of the year, 1996 award. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Anil Nagda)

Year 1995 - (L-R) Manpreet Brar, Miss India Universe with Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and Miss World 1994, Aishwarya with Priti Mankotia, Miss India World. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL/Santosh Bane)

Ishita Arun, daughter of famous singer Ila Arun performing at Colgate Femina Miss India. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Dino Moreo with Diana Hayden at Palmolive Femina Miss India contestant. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Anupam Kher watching the contestant, Annie Thomas at Colgate Femina Miss India. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Miss World 1998 contestant, Annie Thomas during the beauty pageant. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Miss India Universe 1993, Namrata Shirodkar poses for the photoshoot. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Bharat Chanda)

Miss India World 1998, Annie Thomas, Miss India Universe 1998, Lymaraina D' Souza and Miss India Asia Pacific 1998, Vithika Aggarwal pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

The winner of Miss Personality. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Miss India Universe 1999, Gul Panag during a beauty contestant. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Jitu Savlani)

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Femina Miss India 1998 contestant, Dipannita Sharma. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL)

Miss India 1998 contestants, Smriti Irani and Annie Thomas pose together with other contestants. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Boman Irani)

Femina MIss India 1993 contestants. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Bharat Chanda)

One of the final five candidates in the 1999 Femina Miss India beauty pageant, Gayatri Joshi. (Courtesy: Times Archives)  (BCCL)

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose together with Mrs. World 2001, Aditi Gowitrikar. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/S N Kulkarni)

Miss India Asia-Pacific 2000, Dia Mirza along with kids on stage. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Jackie Shroff poses with the Year 2000, Femina Miss India-Asia Pacific contestants. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Year 2000 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners (at the front), Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Diya Mirza respectively, pose with other contestants. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Jitu Savlani)

Madhuri and Ajay Jadeja among the panel of the judges at Femina beauty contest. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Anil Kapoor, Sushmita Sen and Mukesh Ambani as judges for a beauty contest. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Aditi Gowitrikar at Palmolive Femina Miss India contest. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Madhuri Dixit at Palmolive Femina Miss India contest. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Anupam Kher watching the contestant at Colgate Femina Miss India. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Cindy Crawford and Summet Nair at Palmolive Femina MIss India. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Miss India 1998 contestants pose for photoshoot. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Miss India 1998 contestants pose for photoshoot. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL)

Year 1999 Miss India World, Miss India Universe and Miss India-Asia Pacific Winners, Yukta Mookhey, Gul Panag and Shivangi Parikh respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Shriram Vernekar)

Year 1999 Miss India World and Miss India Universe , Yukta Mookhey and Gul Panag respectively, pose together. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )

Winner of Miss India Universe 1999, Gul Panag poses for a photoshoot. (Courtesy: Times Archives) (BCCL/Farokh Jassawalla )