Miss Divine Beauty is a national beauty pageant in India operating under the parent organization Divine Group, that primarily selects India's representatives to compete at Miss Earth and Miss International pageants. Miss Earth and Miss International is two of the Big Four major international beauty pageants in the world.
The reigning Miss Divine Beauty (Miss Earth India) is Priyan Sain and (Miss India International) is Praveena AAnjna. Miss Divine Beauty 2021 was Rashmi Madhuri, who was crowned the title of Miss India Earth 2021 by the former queen Tanvi Kharote. Tanvi Kharote was crowned in 2020 by the Miss earth India 2019 titleholder Tejaswini Manogna. Also, Miss Divine Beauty has introduced a new Award "Beauty With A Responsibility" in 2021. This award aims to not only acknowledge the work done by the beauty queens in order to bring a substantial change but also support the future endeavours of their projects. Present winner of the award is Vanshika Parmar. As an eco enthusiast from New Delhi, she initiated Project Go Green to become a role model for the clean and green Earth movement.
History
India has participated in the Miss Earth pageant since its inception in 2001. From 2001 to 2013, India's representatives at Miss Earth were selected by Femina Miss India, which is sponsored by Femina, a women's magazine published by the Times Group. Subsequently, the franchise for selecting representatives from India to participate at the Miss Earth pageant was acquired by Glamanand Supermodel India. The Glamanand Group lost the franchise privilege in 2018.
India's representatives to the Miss International beauty pageant was initially selected by the Eve's Weekly Miss India contest, since its inception in 1960, until the year 1988.
Since the year 1991, Femina Miss India sent Indian delegates to compete at Miss International, and was successful in producing two first runner-ups and one second runner-up titles. The last highest placement of Femina Miss India's representative at Miss International was achieved by Shonali Nagrani, who was crowned as the first runner-up in Miss International 2003. The Times Group dropped the franchise of Miss International in 2015. The last representative to Miss International by the Miss India Organization was Jhataleka Malhotra in 2014.
The Divine Group acquired the rights to send India's delegates to the Miss Earth in the year 2019. and Miss International in 2023. Deepak Agarwal, the founder and CEO of Divine Group, serves as one of the National Directors. The first edition of Miss Divine Beauty was held on 31 August 2019 at Kingdom of Dreams, New Delhi. The finale was witnessed by Miss Earth 2018 Nguyễn Phương Khánh, Miss Intercontinental 2018 Karen Gallman and Miss Earth Water 2018 Valeria Ayos. Tejaswini Manogna became the first delegate to win the title of Divine Miss India. From 2019 onwards, Miss Divine Beauty is now responsible for the selection of future Miss Earth India.
In July 2023, the Divine Group obtained the license to send a delegate representing India to the Miss International pageant being held annually in Japan and is one among the Big Four major international beauty pageants in the world. The licence is valid for three years (2023-2025).