The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), an autonomous body under the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), under the Ministry of Culture, are among the few institutions responsible for promoting and preserving Indian culture. The two institutions were established with formally distinct mandates: ICCR to promote Indian culture abroad, and IGNCA to pursue research, documentation, and conservation of Indian arts and culture primarily at the national level. Their operational activities, expenditure structures, and overall programmes across the period 2020 to 2024, however, reveal a substantial and growing degree of overlap. Against this backdrop, this brief maps the institutional mandates, geographic footprints, budgetary allocations, and programmes of both bodies.