INDIA FUND, INC. — Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2011

Dec 1, 2011

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The India Fund, Inc.

PLEASE VOTE NOW!

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Please help us avoid further adjournments, phone calls and mailings by promptly voting your shares of The India Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”). The Special Meeting of Shareholders of the Fund has been adjourned in order to solicit additional votes with respect to the proposal to approve a new management agreement with Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Limited, an affiliate of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC. The Meeting has been adjourned to 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on December 12, 2011 at the offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, 30th Floor, New York, New York.

It is important that you vote.

You can cast your vote electronically by logging onto the website on the enclosed voting instruction form or by touchtone phone by calling the toll free number on the voting instruction form and following the instructions. You can also vote by mail by returning your executed voting instruction form in the envelope provided.

Remember, your vote counts. Please vote today.

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