In the two decades following the adoption of a policy of economic liberalization in the early nineties, India registered significant economic growth of about 6 percent. This sustained growth provided opportunities for a better standard of living for the population. At the same time, the national poverty rate decreased from 38.9 percent in 1987/88 to 27.5 percent in 2004/05. This paper presents a trend analysis of food insecurity in India and its provinces based on the food security analysis of four nationwide sample surveys, or Indian Consumption Expenditure Surveys (ICES) of the Indian National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO). Some key food security indicators, including the food inadequacy measure, have been derived at the national and sub-national levels in terms of geographic and socio-economic groupings. The results reveal a continuous decline in the daily DEC of the average Indian as compared to an increasing trend of the daily per person food expenditure over the period of 1997/98 to 2004/05. Food deprivation in India was on an increasing trend with the percentage of people undernourished as measured by the MDG 1.9 indicator on hu