Indian Paramilitary Forces are those agencies of the Ministry of Defence or the Ministry of Home Affairs which act as armed forces auxiliaries and are considered part of the Indian Armed Forces.

There are a large number of such paramilitary forces with a wide range of roles. The different forces tend to share a broadly gendarmerie role and generally perform counter-insurgency or anti-terrorist missions.

The Indian Paramilitary Forces (PMF) are regarded as the world's second largest (Second only to the Chinese People's Armed Police with 1.5 million personnel) and most formidable paramilitary force. In 2002, the total strength of the paramilitary force stood at 1.3 million personnel.

List of Paramilitary forces

• Assam Rifles
• Border Security Force
• Central Industrial Security Force
• Central Reserve Police Force
• Rapid Action Force 
• Indo-Tibetan Border Police
• Rashtriya Rifles
• Defence Security Corps
• Railway Protection Force
• Indian Home Guard
• Civil Defence
• Special Security Bureau
• National Security Guards
• Special Protection Group
• Special Frontier Force
• The Provincial Armed Constabulary (Pradeshik)