How can I get an Indian IP address?
Also asked as: How do I get an India IP address for free? · How do I connect to an India VPN server?
Direct answer
Connect to a VPN server located in India. Install VPNmine, sign in or skip, and choose India from the server list; the app opens an encrypted tunnel to VPNmine's Mumbai server and every site you open sees an Indian address. It is free, with no ads and no card, and Mumbai is the closest exit for most of South Asia.
The steps
Install VPNmine on your desktop, phone, TV or browser, sign in or skip, and pick India from the server list. The app opens a WireGuard tunnel to the Mumbai server, and every site you open afterwards sees that server's address instead of yours. To confirm, open the IP checker on this site with the tunnel up: it should report India.
Why Mumbai
Mumbai is India's main submarine-cable landing city and the home of its largest data-centre cluster, so it has the shortest path to the rest of India, to the Gulf and to Singapore. From Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka it is typically the lowest-latency exit after the local one. The location page has the latency estimates and what Indian law requires of providers.
What it does not do
An Indian exit makes sites treat you as an Indian visitor — useful for reaching Indian services and pricing from abroad — and hides your traffic from your own network. It does not defeat account-based identification, and catalogue access on streaming services is something to test, not assume.
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