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India's growing influence on the global politics, women from India continue to face significant obstacles in international politics. This research paper examines the underrepresentation of Indian Women in international politics, highlighting the structural barriers, gender stereotypes and socio-cultural norms that hinder their participation. It also argues that Indian women's exclusion form global decision-making processes perpetuates gendered power dynamics, undermining India's potential as a global actor. The first objective of this paper is that Indian women face some challenges in international politics like gender discrimination, caste, class, religion second objective of this paper analyzes how these intersections impact their access to resources, network and decision-making positions and argues for inclusive policies to enhance Indian women's participation in global governance. This paper is based on secondary sources and methodology of this paper is descriptive and analytical. This paper studying that the ontological and epistemological underpinning of Indian women's absence in international politics, probing the nexus of power, knowledge and subjectivity that perpetuates them ensure. The study gestures towards a counter-narrative that reimagines the global as a contest terrain, where Indian women subjectivities and agencies are reconfigured as pivotal to the geopolitics of knowledge and power.