India Capital Flows on TREMOR puts NSDL's foreign portfolio investor (FPI) data from 2005 in one place. It also has mutual fund flows, FDI and who holds Indian securities with custodians. It is free with no sign-up, and the full data downloads as CSV files with a column guide.
What it covers:
- FPI flows daily or monthly, in rupees or dollars, by trading day or by NSDL report date, with trailing or cumulative totals.
- FPI buying on the stock exchanges and through IPOs and placements, shown separately from December 2009.
- FPI flows by sector, from NSDL's fortnightly data. NSDL changed its sector list in April 2022, so older periods use the older list.
- FPI flows and holdings by the country where the fund is registered, such as Mauritius, Singapore or Luxembourg. The money behind a fund can come from anywhere.
- Mutual fund net buying on the exchanges, from SEBI's daily data. It covers every fund type, including hybrid, arbitrage and index funds and ETFs.
- FDI, from RBI's monthly figure in US$. It runs two to three months behind.
- Who holds Indian securities in custody, by investor type.
Which FPI number it uses. Every FPI figure in the tool is NSDL's. NSE's daily FII figures count exchange trades only and come out the same evening, before NSDL's. So the two do not match day to day. The monthly figure is NSDL's own monthly report, and a toggle adds up the days by trading day instead.
An example from the data. In the two years to October 2026, FPIs sold Rs 6.5 lakh crore of Indian shares on the exchanges. They bought Rs 1.8 lakh crore through IPOs and placements. Mutual funds were net buyers in every one of those 24 months, Rs 10.1 lakh crore in all.
Tool: https://www.tigzig.com/tremor/tools/india-capital-flows, with Methodology and Validation tabs. Data download: https://www.tigzig.com/downloads, also listed for agents at https://api.tigzig.com/downloads/tremor. Related: how much foreign investors have taken out of Indian stocks, is foreign money coming back to India? and which sectors foreign investors have been selling. Launch post: https://www.tigzig.com/post/india-capital-flows-new-tool-fpi-mutual-funds-fdi-nov2026.
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