htaccess 301 redirect not working

I'm trying to redirect my old pages to new pages but this is not working. I've added these "redirects" in the very beginning of the .htaccess file. When I added in the bottom, it gave server misconfiguration error. How to make it work? Same would work in my Joomla based websites. When I type "http://www.indiacustomercare.com/toll-free-customer-care-numbers-in-india.html" in Firefox it's giving error:

The page isn't redirecting properly Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

*   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to

accept cookies.

Here are the lines I've added in the very beginning of .htaccess

  redirect 301 /toll-free-customer-care-numbers-in-india.html http://www.indiacustomercare.com/toll-free-customer-care-numbers-india
    redirect 301 /vodafone-customer-care.html http://www.indiacustomercare.com/vodafone-customer-care-helpline-numbers
    redirect 301  /airtel-customer-care.html http://www.indiacustomercare.com/airtel-customer-care-contact-helpli开发者_StackOverflow中文版ne-call-center-numbers
    redirect 301 /xmap-1.html   http://www.indiacustomercare.com/sitemap
    redirect 301 /index.html  http://www.indiacustomercare.com/reciprocal-link-exchange-add-your-url

This worked. I added this in the top of .htaccess

RewriteBase / 
RewriteRule ^index.html$ indiacustomercare.com/reciprocal-link-exchange-add-your-url [R=301,L]