In this age of globalization, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has become an important instrument for economic growth and development for most of the developing economies across the globe. The emerging market economies offer various tax and other incentives to woo more and more foreign capital into their economies. For the past few years, India has emerged as an attractive destination for FDI. With the increasing importance of foreign capital inflows in India, this study analyzes the overall trend and pattern of foreign capital inflows into India for the period 2000-2016.Further, it also examines the country-wise as well as sectoral trend of FDI into India to understand how foreign direct investment into India has undergone a transition in the past few years.