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{{infobox country at games
| NOC = IND
| NOCname = [[Indian Olympic Association]]
| games = Summer Olympics
| year = 1948
| flagcaption =
| oldcode =
| website = {{url|olympic.ind.in}}
| location = [[London]]
| competitors = 79 (all men)
| sports = 10
| flagbearer =
| rank = 22
| gold = 1
| silver = 0
| bronze = 0
| officials =
| appearances = auto
| app_begin_year = 1900
| app_end_year =
| summerappearances =
| winterappearances =
| seealso =
}}

'''[[Dominion of India|India]]''' competed at the '''[[1948 Summer Olympics]]''' in [[Wembley Park]], [[London]], [[England]]. 79 competitors, all men, took part in 39 events in 10 sports.<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1948/ |title=India at the 1948 London Summer Games |access-date=17 July 2014 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714115148/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1948/ |archive-date=14 July 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> It was the first time that India competed as an independent nation at the Olympic Games.
[[File:India-Olympic-1948-Games.jpg|thumb|right|Indian Team in 1948]]

==Medalists==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; float:right;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
!colspan=5|'''Medals by sport'''
|- align=center
|'''Sport'''
| style="background:#f7f6a8;"|{{gold01}}
| style="background:#dce5e5;"|{{silver02}}
| style="background:#ffdab9;"|{{bronze03}}
|'''Total'''
|- align=center
|[[Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Field hockey]] || style="background:#f7f6a8;"| 1 || style="background:#dce5e5;"| 0 || style="background:#ffdab9;"| 0 || 1
|- align=center
!'''Total''' || style="background:gold;"| '''1''' || style="background:silver;"| '''0''' || style="background:#c96;"| '''0''' || '''1'''
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%"
|-
! Medal
! Name
! Sport
! Event
|-
|{{gold medal}} || [[Leslie Claudius]] [[Keshav Dutt]] [[Walter D'Souza (field hockey)|Walter D'Souza]] [[Lawrie Fernandes]] [[Ranganathan Francis]] [[Gerry Glackan]] [[Akhtar Hussain (field hockey)|Akhtar Hussain]] [[Patrick Jansen]] [[Amir Kumar]] [[Kishan Lal]] [[Leo Pinto]] [[Jaswant Singh Rajput]] [[Latif-ur-Rehman]] [[Reginald Rodrigues]] [[Balbir Singh Sr.]] [[Randhir Singh Gentle]] [[Grahanandan Singh]] [[K. D. Singh]] [[Trilochan Singh]] [[Maxie Vaz]] || [[Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Field hockey]] || [[Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Men's Field hockey]]
|-
|}

==Competitors==
Note: All times mentioned on this page are in British Summer Time (BST). Indian Standard Time (IST) = BST + 4:30hrs.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! width=150|Sport
! width=55|Men
! width=55|Women
! width=55|Events
|-
| align=left|[[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Athletics]]
| 8|| 0 || 10
|-
| align=left|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Boxing]]
| 7|| 0 || 7
|-
| align=left|[[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Cycling]]
| 9|| 0 || 5
|-
| align=left|[[Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Field Hockey]]
| 20|| 0 || 1
|-
| align=left|[[Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Football]]
| 18|| 0 || 1
|-
| align=left|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Swimming]]
| 7|| 0 || 5
|-
| align=left|[[Water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Water polo]]
| 9|| 0 || 1
|-
| align=left|[[Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]]
| 2|| 0 || 2
|-
| align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Wrestling]]
| 6|| 0 || 6
|- class="sortbottom;"
|}

== Athletics==
{{main article|Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Heat
!colspan="2"|Quarterfinals
!colspan="2"|Semifinals
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
|-
| [[Eric Prabhakar]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|Men's 100 metres]]
| 11.0
| 2
| ?
| 6
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Qualifying
!colspan="2"|Semifinal
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
|-
| [[Jim Vickers]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 110 metres hurdles|Men's 110 metres hurdles]]
| 14.7
| 1
| ?
| 4
|align=center colspan="2" |Did not advance
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Qualifying
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
|-
| [[Sadhu Singh (athlete)|Sadhu Singh]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 kilometres walk|Men's 10 kilometres walk]]
| --
| --
|align=center colspan="2" |Did not advance
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Rank
|-
| [[Sadhu Singh (athlete)|Sadhu Singh]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk|Men's 50 kilometres walk]]
| --
| DNF
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Rank
|-
| [[Chhota Singh]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon|Men's marathon]]
| --
| DNF
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Qualifying
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
|-
| [[Gurnam Singh (high jumper)|Gurnam Singh]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump|Men's high jump]]
| 1.87
| NP
| 1.80
| 18
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Qualifying
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
|-
| [[Baldev Singh (athlete)|Baldev Singh]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump|Men's long jump]]
| 7.000
| 11
|align=center colspan="2" |Did not advance
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Qualifying
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
|-
| [[Henry Rebello]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump|Men's triple jump]]
| 14.650
| 5
| -
| NM
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Qualifying
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Score
!Rank
!Score
!Rank
|-
| [[Nat Singh Somnath]]
| [[Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw|Men's hammer throw]]
| 41.36
| 23
|align=center colspan="2" |Did not advance
|-
|}

== Boxing==
{{main article|Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}

;Men
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
|-
!rowspan=2|Athlete
!rowspan=2|Event
!Round of 32
!Round of 16
!Quarterfinals
!Semifinals
!colspan=2|Final
|- style="font-size:95%"
!Opposition Result
!Opposition Result
!Opposition Result
!Opposition Result
!Opposition Result
!Rank
|-
|[[Rabin Bhatta]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's flyweight|Flyweight]]
| colspan=1 align=center {{n/a|Bye}}
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Frankie Sodano]]|USA|1948 Summer}} '''L''' KO1
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"| Did not advance
|-
|[[Babu Lall]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's bantamweight|Bantamweight]]
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Allan Monteiro]]|PAK|1948 Summer}} '''W''' RSC1
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Juan Venegas]]|PUR|1948 Summer}} '''L''' PTS
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"| Did not advance
|-
|[[Benoy Bose (boxer)|Benoy Bose]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's featherweight|Featherweight]]
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Fransisco Núñez]]|ARG|1948 Summer}} '''L''' PTS
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="7"| Did not advance
|-
|[[Gene Raymond (boxer)|Gene Raymond]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight|Lightweight]]
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Svend Wad]]|DEN|1948 Summer}} '''L''' PTS
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="7"| Did not advance
|-
|[[Robert Cranston (boxer)|Robert Cranston]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's welterweight|Welterweight]]
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Aurelio Díaz (boxer)|Aurelio Díaz]]|ESP|1948 Summer}} '''L''' PTS
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="7"| Did not advance
|-
|[[John Nuttall (boxer)|John Nuttall]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's middleweight|Middleweight]]
| colspan=1 align=center {{n/a|Bye}}
|align=center| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Ivano Fontana]]|ITA|1948 Summer}} '''L''' PTS
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="5"| Did not advance
|-
|[[Mac Joachim]]
|[[Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's light heavyweight|Light heavyweight]]
|align=center|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Franciszek Szymura]]|POL|1948 Summer}} '''L''' PTS
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="7"| Did not advance
|}

==Cycling==
{{main article|Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}

[[File:India-Cycle-Sporting-2-1948LondonOlympics-b.jpg|thumb|left|India cyclists 1948-Havewala, Bhoot, Saugar, others]]

Ten cyclists represented India in 1948

;[[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race|Individual road race]]
* [[Bapoo Malcolm]]
* [[Raj Kumar Mehra]]
* [[Eruch Mistry]]
* [[Homi Powri]] (Pavri)

;[[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's team road race|Team road race]]
* [[Bapoo Malcolm]]
* [[Raj Kumar Mehra]]
* [[Eruch Mistry]]
* [[Homi Powri]] (Pavri)

;[[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint|Sprint]]
* [[Rusi Mulla Feroze]]

;[[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 1000m time trial|Time trial]]
* [[Rohinton Noble]]

;[[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit|Team pursuit]]
* [[Adi Havewala]]
* [[Jehangoo Amin]]
* [[Rohinton Noble]]
* [[Piloo Sarkari]] (Sarkar)
 
Also represented India: [[Netai Chand Bysack]]

[[Sohrab Bhoot]] and Nariman Saugar were administrators for the cycling team.

== Field Hockey==
{{main article|Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}
The Indian field hockey team defeated the British team to win the country's
first gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. It was the country's first Olympic gold medal since India became [[Partition of India|independent]].

;Squad
[[Leslie Claudius]] [[Keshav Dutt]] [[Walter D'Souza (field hockey)|Walter D'Souza]] [[Lawrie Fernandes]] [[Ranganathan Francis]] [[Gerry Glackan]] [[Akhtar Hussain (field hockey)|Akhtar Hussain]] [[Patrick Jansen]] [[Amir Kumar]] [[Kishan Lal]] (c) [[Leo Pinto]] [[Jaswant Singh Rajput]] [[Latif-ur-Rehman]] [[Reginald Rodrigues]] [[Balbir Singh Sr.]] [[Randhir Singh Gentle]] [[Grahanandan Singh]] [[K. D. Singh]] (vc) [[Trilochan Singh]] [[Maxie Vaz]]

;Group A matches

{| class="wikitable"
!bgcolor="#efefef"|Rank
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="140"|Team
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pld
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|W
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|D
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|L
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GF
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GA
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pts
!bgcolor="#efefef"|
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|IND}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|ARG}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|AUT}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|{{flagicon|ESP|1945}}
|- align=center bgcolor=lightblue
|1.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|IND|1948 Summer}}
|3||3||0||0||19||1||'''6'''|| ||X||'''9:1'''||'''8:0'''||'''2:0'''
|- align=center
|2.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|ARG|1948 Summer}}
|3||1||1||1||5||12||'''3'''|| ||1:9||X||1:1||'''3:2'''
|- align=center
|3.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|AUT|1948 Summer}}
|3||0||2||1||2||10||'''2'''|| ||0:8||1:1||X||1:1
|- align=center
|4.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|ESP|1948 Summer}}
|3||0||1||2||3||6||'''1'''|| ||0:2||2:3||1:1||X
|}

;Semi-finals
{| class = "wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
|'''{{flagIOCteam|IND|1948 Summer}}''' || '''2 – 1''' || align=left| {{flagIOCteam|NED|1948 Summer}}
|}

;Final
{| class = "wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|-
|'''{{flagIOCteam|IND|1948 Summer}}''' || '''4 – 0''' || align=left| {{flagIOCteam|GBR|1948 Summer}}
|}

==Football==
{{main article|Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}

;Squad
Head coach: [[Balaidas Chatterjee]]
{| border="0" width="100%" style="border: 1px solid #999; background-color:#FFFFFF; text-align:center"
|-align="center" bgcolor="#AAD0FF"
!width=4%|Pos.
!width=23%|Player
!width=12%|Date of Birth
!width=4%|Age
!width=4%|Caps
!width=21%|Club
!width=6%|Tournament games
!width=6%|Tournament goals
!width=4%|Minutes played
!width=4%|Sub off
!width=4%|Sub on
!width=4%|Cards yellow/red
|-
| [[Midfielder (football)|MF]] ||align="left"| [[Talimeran Ao]] || Jan 28, 1918 || 30 || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan A.C.]] || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Midfielder (football)|MF]] ||align="left"| [[A. Sattar Basheer]] || 1924 || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Mysore || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[Robi Das]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Bhawanipore Club || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[Ahmed Mohamed Khan]] || Dec 24, 1926 || 21 || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Mysore || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Defender (football)|DF]] ||align="left"| [[Sailen Manna|Saliendra Manna]] || Sep 1, 1924 || 23 || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Mohun Bagan AC|Mohun Bagan A.C.]] || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[Sahu Mewalal]] || Jul 1, 1926 || 22 || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Eastern Railway S.C.]] || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Defender (football)|DF]] ||align="left"| [[Taj Mohammed (footballer)|Taj Mohammed]] || 1924 || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Midfielder (football)|MF]] ||align="left"| [[Mahabir Prasad (footballer)|Mahabir Prasad]] || 1918 || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[Ramchandra Parab|Balaram Parab Ramchandra]] || 1925|| || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Bombay F.C.]] || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[Sarangapani Raman]] || 1920 || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Mysore || 1 || 1 || 90 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Goalkeeper (football)|GK]] ||align="left"| [[Kenchappa V. Varada Raj]] || 1923 || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Mysore || 1 || 0 || 90 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
|||- ''Stand-by players'' -|| || || || || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[K. P. Dhanraj]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Mysore || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Midfielder (football)|MF]] ||align="left"| [[S. M. Kaiser]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[East Bengal Club|East Bengal]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Midfielder (football)|MF]] ||align="left"| [[Anil Nandy]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Eastern Railway S.C.]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Striker (football)|FW]] ||align="left"| [[Santosh Nandy]] || 1932 || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Eastern Railway S.C.]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Defender (football)|DF]] ||align="left"| [[T. M. Varghese "Papen"]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Bombay F.C.]] || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|-bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
| [[Goalkeeper (football)|GK]] ||align="left"| [[Sanjeeva Uchil]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} ICL-Bengal Club, Bombay || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|-
| [[Midfielder (football)|MF]] ||align="left"| [[B. N. Vajravelu]] || || || ? ||align="left"| {{flagicon|IND}} Mysore || 0 || 0 || 0 || - || - || -
|}

;First round
{{football box
|date = 31 July 1948 18:30
|team1 = {{fb-rt|FRA}}
|score = 2–1
|report = [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023065432/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament%3D512/edition%3D197049/matches/match%3D32358/report.html Report]
|team2 = {{fb|IND}}
|goals1 = [[René Courbin|Courbin]] {{goal|30}} [[René Persillon|Persillon]] {{goal|89}}
|goals2 = [[Sarangapani Raman|Raman]] {{goal|70}}
|stadium = [[Lynn Road Stadium]], [[Ilford]]
|referee = [[Gunnar Dahlner]] (SWE)
|attendance =17.000
}}

== Swimming==
{{main article|Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Athlete
!rowspan="2"|Event
!colspan="2"|Heat
!colspan="2"|Semifinal
!colspan="2"|Final
|-
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
!Time
!Rank
|-
|[[Sachin Nag]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle|Men's 100 m freestyle]]
|align="center"|1:03.8
|align="center"|34
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Isaac Mansoor]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle|Men's 100 m freestyle]]
|align="center"|1:06.4
|align="center"|38
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Dilip Mitra]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle|Men's 100 m freestyle]]
|align="center"|1:06.9
|align="center"|39
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|rowspan ="2"|[[Bimal Chandra]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle|Men's 400 metre freestyle]]
|align="center"|5:38.6
|align="center"|?
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle|Men's 1500 metre freestyle]]
|align="center"|22:52.9
|align="center"|?
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Khamlillal Shah]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke|Men's 100 metre backstroke]]
|align="center"|1:19.9
|align="center"|?
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Prahtip Mitra]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke|Men's 100 metre backstroke]]
|align="center"|1:24.5
|align="center"|?
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|-
|[[Prafulla Mullick]]
|[[Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke|Men's 200 metre breaststroke]]
|align="center"|3:14.9
|align="center"|?
|align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
|}

==Water Polo==
{{main article|Water polo at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}
Indian water polo team ranked 9th in tournament.

===Men's Team Competition===

; Squad
[[Gora Seal]] [[Samarendra Chatterjee]] [[Ajoy Chatterjee]] [[Suhas Chatterjee]] [[Dwarkadas Mukharji]] [[Durga Das (water polo)|Durga Das]] [[Jamini Dass]] [[Sachin Nag]] [[Isaac Mansoor]] [[Jahan Ahir]]

;Round One

;Group C matches

{| class="wikitable"
!bgcolor="#efefef"|Rank
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="140"|Team
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pld
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|W
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|D
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|L
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GF
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GA
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pts
!bgcolor="#efefef"|
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="25"|{{flagicon|NED}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="25"|{{flagicon|IND}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="25"|{{flagicon|CHI}}
|- align=center bgcolor=lightblue
|1.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|NED|1948 Summer}}
|2||2||0||0||26||1||'''4'''|| ||X||'''12:1'''||'''14:0'''
|- align=center bgcolor=lightblue
|2.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|IND|1948 Summer}}
|2||1||0||1||8||16||'''2'''|| ||1:12||X||'''7:4'''
|- align=center
|3.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|CHI|1948 Summer}}
|2||0||0||2||4||21||'''0'''|| ||0:14||4:7||X
|}

;Round Two

;Group H

{| class="wikitable"
!bgcolor="#efefef"|Rank
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="140"|Team
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pld
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|W
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|D
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|L
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GF
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|GA
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="20"|Pts
!bgcolor="#efefef"|
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="25"|{{flagicon|NED}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="25"|{{flagicon|ESP|1945}}
!bgcolor="#efefef" width="25"|{{flagicon|IND}}
|- align=center bgcolor=lightblue
|1.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|NED|1948 Summer}}
|2||2||0||0||17||3||'''4'''|| ||X||'''5:2'''||'''''12:1'''''
|- align=center bgcolor=lightblue
|2.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|ESP|1948 Summer}}
|2||1||0||1||13||6||'''2'''|| ||2:5||X||'''11:1'''
|- align=center
|3.
|align=left|{{flagIOCteam|IND|1948 Summer}}
|2||0||0||2||2||23||'''0'''|| ||''1:12''||1:11||X
|}

== Weightlifting==
{{main article|Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}

== Wrestling==
{{main article|Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics}}
{{smalldiv|1=<nowiki/>
'''Key''':
* {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall}} - [[Pin (amateur wrestling)|Victory by Fall]].
* {{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points}} - Decision by Points.
* {{abbr|Pd|Decision by Points (Judges Disagree)}} - Decision by Points but Judges disagree.
}}

;Men's freestyle
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!Athlete
!Event
!Round 1 Result
!Round 2 Result
!Round 3 Result
!Round 4 Result
!Round 5 Result
!Rank
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav|K. D. Jadhav]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle flyweight|−52 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[B. Harris]]|AUS|1948 Summer}} '''W''' {{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[B. Jernigan]]|USA|1948 Summer}} '''W''' {{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[M. Raissi]]|IRN|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 5m 31s}}
|colspan=2 {{n/a}}
|6
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Nirmal Bose (Wrestler)|Nirmal Bose]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle bantamweight|−57 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[G. Leeman]]|USA|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 7m 35s}}
|colspan=4 {{n/a}}
|−
|-align=center
|align=left|[[S. Suryavanshi]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight|−62 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[A. Parsons]]|GBR|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|Pd|Decision by Points (Judges Disagree)}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[A. Muller]]|SUI|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 6m 32s}}
|colspan=3 {{n/a}}
|−
|-align=center
|align=left|[[Banta Singh (Wrestler)|Banta Singh]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle lightweight|−67 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[M. Hassan]]|EGY|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|Pt|Decision by Points}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[C. Atik]]|TUR|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 5m 8s}}
|colspan=3 {{n/a}}
|−
|-align=center
|align=left|[[A. Bhargava]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight|−73 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Yaşar Doğu]]|TUR|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 2m 58s}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[E. Estrada Ojeda]]|MEX|1948 Summer}} '''W''' {{abbr|Pd|Decision by Points (Judges Disagree)}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[Dick Garrard]]|AUS|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 2m 20s}}
|colspan=2 {{n/a}}
|−
|-align=center
|align=left|[[K. Roy]]
|align=left|[[Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle middleweight|−79 kg]]
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[M. Vachon]]|CAN|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 54s}}
|{{flagIOCathlete|[[R. Arthur]]|AUS|1948 Summer}} '''L''' {{abbr|VT|Victory by Fall - 4m 15s}}
|colspan=3 {{n/a}}
|−
|}

==See also==
* [[Gold (2018 film)|''Gold'' (2018 film)]], about India's national hockey team at the 1948 Summer Olympics

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714115148/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/IND/summer/1948/ sports-reference.com]

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India at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Revision history

Delinker at 21:00, 31 July 2023