I have been to India vs I went to India

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'I have been to India' is used to indicate that the speaker has visited India at some point in the past, with the focus on the experience of having been there. 'I went to India' is used to simply state the fact of visiting India without emphasizing the experience or duration of the visit.

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I have been to India

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate that the speaker has visited India at some point in the past.

This phrase is used to talk about past experiences of visiting a place. It implies that the speaker has been to India at least once in their life.

Examples:

I have been to India twice.
She has never been to India before.
Have you been to India?
They have been to India many times.
He has been to India on business trips.

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But I haven't been to India since '81.
But I haven't been to India since '81.
I have no intention of returning her to India.
I have been contacted by a constituent who is moving from the UK to India for 18 months.
No, I haven't been on a date since I got to India.
I have seen documents from the works council that suggest that production will be moved to India.
I'm refering to your visit to India... and Pakistan.
Bangladesh is also refusing to sell gas to India and will not allow transit to India through its territory.
It has become clear, in the light of the visit to India by Parliament's India Delegation in April 2010 and through various contacts, that India is not interested in a development chapter.
The EU-India Strategy Paper does not give a single amount for the EU component of aid to India over the period.
I have been contacted by constituents concerned by reports that certain Member States, including the United Kingdom, have outsourced some processing of tax records to India.
Which is exactly what I did to India.
And so Tobias found himself booking passage to India.
I go to India in six weeks.
You know, my wife's thinking about traveling to India.
Go to India first, and then London.
I've sent Hester and her servant back to India.
Two plane tickets to India with no return date.
They sold hundreds of cars to India.
Priya's going back to India.

Alternatives:

I visited India
I have traveled to India
I have gone to India
I have been in India
I have been to other countries as well

I went to India

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to simply state the fact of visiting India without emphasizing the experience or duration of the visit.

This phrase is used to talk about a specific trip or visit to a place in the past. It is a simple statement of having traveled to India.

Examples:

I went to India last summer.
She went to India for a vacation.
Did you go to India for work?
They went to India to explore the culture.
He went to India with his family.

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I went to India for 2 weeks.
You see, Mrs Templeton, I went to India, where I learned of a way of life that was totally alien to mine.
But I went to India, where I found a way of life that was indescribable.
And the only reason I know this is because last year I went to India to do some shows.
Do you remember last year when I went to India?
I remember before I went to India I was all nervous, right?
I nearly went to India once.
I guess he went to India.
The boss went to India with the machines and our subsidies.
She... never went to India.
My dad was furious when he heard you stole your college tuition and went to India.
Shortly afterwards, she went to India.
So, then we went to India which is pretty cool, I guess.
Mr President, I was a member of the EP delegation that went to India last month.
She went to India and she picked up yoga.
So off we went to India. We made, I think, about a dozen trips to Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Delhi, Hyderabad, you name it, to examine what is the level of corporate innovation in these cities.
They decided that wasn't good enough, so they went to India and studied the Indian state of Kerala that also had a system like this, and they adapted it for Ethiopia.
Soon after I was born, she went away to India.
"Where did they go?" "Went to India and back."
She went to Bangkok, India, Thailand...

Alternatives:

I traveled to India
I visited India
I journeyed to India
I took a trip to India
I made a visit to India

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I have been to India vs I went to India