Surely you might be thinking about what we mean because our team is not even part of it. However, it is not that Indian team has never been able to qualify for it.
In 1950, India had qualified for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. True, Indian Football was in its golden period at that time.
However, FIFA has invited four Asian teams, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, and India, for the 1950 World Cup, to the World Cup. Philippines, Indonesia, and Burma withdrew the name before the qualification round began. For this reason, the Indian team got the place.
Indeed, if the experts believed, then the Indian players played barefoot footwear without shoes, but the bare legs did not allow them to play in that tournament, due to which India withdrew the name.
However, there are some reports that there were not so many money that India could send its players to Brazil. So the Indian team had to stay in the mind. Since then, India has not been able to qualify for the World Cup to date.
Going to Brazil at that time was an expensive deal. By the way, Turkey had separated itself by referring to the economic problem.