This study is an attempt to measure and analyze the export performance of India for the time period of 2001-16 which was subdivided into two periods, pre and post-recession of 2008-09 by using Constant market share method. The study confirms the results that the growth of Indian exports during 2001-16 has been mainly due to the Market Distribution Effect and World Demand Effect. It was found that during the pre-recession period, the export performance lacked competitiveness as compared to post recession. Similar results were seen in commodity wise growth performance, almost all the commodities were showing negative competitiveness effect. Market wise export growth showed that few economies have shown a good response for Indian exports to their respective markets like USA, few economies of Europe and UAE. There has been negative competitiveness effect which shows that Indian exports are growing to such markets not by their competitive nature but by the other two effects namely world demand effect and market distribution effect.