India has been largest recipient of remittances for long time. Remittances play important role in economic development of any country particularly under developed and developing countries because it is an important and stable source of foreign exchange reserve and external finance. Apart from minimising gap between demand and supply of capital, it also facilitates consumption of different kinds of goods and services to migrants` households. This paper broadly tries to analyse change in trends and patters of inflow of remittances in India and changes in source of Indian remittances over period of time.