Conflict |
Combatant 1 |
Combatant 2 |
Results |
Indian commanders |
Indian losses |
Indian Prime Minister |
Minister of Defence of India |
IAF forces |
Civilians |
First Indo-Pakistani War (1947–1948) |
India |
Pakistan |
Victory
|
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Baldev Singh |
1,104[1] |
? |
Annexation of Junagadh (1947) |
India |
Junagadh |
Victory
|
? |
? |
Operation Polo (1948) |
India |
Hyderabad |
Victory
|
32[2] |
27,000– 200,000 |
Liberation of Dadra (1954) |
India |
Portugal |
Victory
- Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
|
None |
44[3] |
None |
Congo Crisis (1960–1964) |
Congo-Léopoldville ONUC |
Katanga South Kasai |
Victory
|
V. K. Krishna Menon |
? |
? |
Liberation of Goa (1961) |
India |
Portugal |
Victory
|
22[4] |
None |
Sino-Indian War (1962) |
India |
China |
Defeat
|
1,383[5] |
? |
Second Indo-Pakistani War (1965) |
India |
Pakistan |
Victory[6]
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri |
Yashwantrao Chavan |
~3,000[7] |
? |
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency (1967–) |
India |
Naxalites |
Ongoing[8]
|
Indira Gandhi |
Swaran Singh |
? |
? |
Cho La Incident (1967) |
India |
China |
Victory
- Chinese retreat from Sikkim
|
88[9] |
? |
Third Indo-Pakistani War (1971) |
India Bangladesh |
Pakistan |
Victory
- Independence of Bangladesh
|
Jagjivan Ram |
2,500–[10] 3,843[11] |
? |
Operation Meghdoot (1984) |
India |
Pakistan |
Victory
- India captures the Siachen Glacier
|
R. Venkataraman |
36[12] |
None |
Punjab insurgency (1984–1995) |
India |
Sikhs |
Victory
|
? |
12,000+[13] |
Indian intervention in Sri Lanka (1987–1990) |
India Sri Lanka |
Tamil Tigers |
Stalemate
- Continued civil war in Sri Lanka
|
Rajiv Gandhi |
Rajiv Gandhi |
1,138[14] |
? |
Operation Cactus (1988) |
India Maldives |
PLOTE |
Victory
- Government rule restored in Maldives
|
K. C. Pant |
None |
None |
Kargil War (1999) |
India |
Pakistan |
Victory
|
Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
George Fernandes |
527[15] |
? |