Minister of External Affairs (India)

Head of the Ministry of External Affairs

Not to be confused with the Foreign Secretary of India.

Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India

Videś Mantrī

Emblem of India

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Incumbent
S. Jaishankar

since 31 May 2019 (2019-05-31)

Ministry of External Affairs
Abbreviation| MEA
Member of| Cabinet of India
Cabinet Committee on Security
Reports to| President of the Republic of India
Prime Minister of India
Parliament of India
Appointer| President of India
on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of India
Formation| 1947 (1947)
First holder| Jawaharlal Nehru
Deputy| Minister of State for External Affairs

The minister of external affairs (or simply, the external affairs minister Hindi: Videsh Mantri) is the head of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the union cabinet, the chief responsibility of the minister of external affairs is to represent the government of India in the international community and advance its interests on the global stage. As such, the minister plays an important role in shaping and directing the country's foreign policy. Typically, the minister is assisted by one or more junior ministers, known as Ministers of State (MoS) for External Affairs.

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, simultaneously held the post of External Affairs Minister throughout his 17-year premiership and remains the longest-serving External Affairs Minister, followed by S. Jaishankar, the currently serving External Affairs Minister. Several other Prime Ministers have since held the additional charge as the Minister of External Affairs, but never has any other cabinet minister held additional charge of the office - although during Nehru's premiership V. K. Krishna Menon was acknowledged as de facto minister of external affairs beyond his official designation as defence minister. There have been a number of external affairs ministers who went on to become the prime minister like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, P. V. Narasimha Rao and I. K. Gujral. Two former career-diplomats have served as ministers of external affairs, including Natwar Singh (2004–2005) who served as India's ambassador to Poland and as high commissioner to Pakistan, and the current minister S. Jaishankar who retired as the foreign secretary. Two other ministers, M. C. Chagla and I. K. Gujral also served as ambassadors, with Chagla serving as India's ambassador to the United States and high commissioner to the United Kingdom, while Gujral served as ambassador to the Soviet Union.

The current minister of external affairs is S. Jaishankar, who succeeded Sushma Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 May 2019.

## Minister of External Affairs

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No. | Portrait  | Minister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency | Term of office  | Political party  | Ministry  | Prime Minister

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From  | To  | Period
Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations
1  |  |  | Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964)
MCA for United Provinces
(Prime Minister)  | 15 August
1947  | 26 January
1950  | 2 years, 164 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I |  | Self
Minister of External Affairs
(1)  |  |  | Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964)
MCA for United Provinces (till 1952)
MP for Phulpur (from 1952)
(Prime Minister)  | 26 January
1950  | 27 May
1964[†] | 14 years, 122 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I |  | Self
Nehru II
Nehru III
Nehru IV
2  |  |  | Gulzarilal Nanda
(1898–1998)
MP for Sabarkantha
(Prime Minister)  | 27 May
1964  | 9 June
1964  | 13 days | Nanda I |  | Self
3  |  |  | Lal Bahadur Shastri
(1904–1966)
MP for Allahabad
(Prime Minister)  | 9 June
1964  | 17 July
1964  | 38 days | Shastri |  | Lal Bahadur Shastri
4  |  |  | Swaran Singh
(1907–1994)
MP for Jullundur | 17 July
1964  | 11 January
1966  | 2 years, 120 days
11 January
1966  | 24 January
1966  | Nanda II |  | Gulzarilal Nanda
24 January
1966  | 14 November
1966  | Indira I |  | Indira Gandhi
5  |  |  | M. C. Chagla
(1900–1981)
Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra | 14 November
1966  | 13 March
1967  | 295 days
13 March
1967  | 5 September
1967  | Indira II
6  |  |  | Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984)
MP for Rae Bareli
(Prime Minister)  | 6 September
1967  | 13 February
1969  | 1 year, 160 days
7  |  |  | Dinesh Singh
(1925–1995)
MP for Pratapgarh | 14 February
1969  | 27 June
1970  | 1 year, 133 days | Indian National Congress (R) |
(4)  |  |  | Swaran Singh
(1907–1994)
MP for Jullundur | 27 June
1970  | 18 March
1971  | 4 years, 105 days
18 March
1971  | 10 October
1974  | Indira III
8  |  |  | Yashwantrao Chavan
(1913–1984)
MP for Satara | 10 October
1974  | 24 March
1977  | 2 years, 165 days
9  |  |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for New Delhi | 26 March
1977  | 28 July
1979  | 2 years, 124 days | Janata Party | Desai |  | Morarji Desai
10  |  |  | Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
(1920–2004)
MP for Begusarai | 28 July
1979  | 14 January
1980  | 170 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan |  | Charan Singh
11  |  |  | P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004)
MP for Hanamkonda | 14 January
1980  | 19 July
1984  | 4 years, 187 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV |  | Indira Gandhi
(6)  |  |  | Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984)
MP for Medak
(Prime Minister)  | 19 July
1984  | 31 October
1984† | 104 days
12  |  |  | Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991)
MP for Amethi
(Prime Minister)  | 31 October
1984  | 31 December
1984  | 328 days | Rajiv I |  | Rajiv Gandhi
31 December
1984  | 24 September
1985  | Rajiv
13  |  |  | Bali Ram Bhagat
(1922–2011)
MP for Arrah | 24 September
1985  | 12 May
1986  | 230 days
14  |  |  | P. Shiv Shankar
(1929–2017)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat | 12 May
1986  | 22 October
1986  | 163 days
15  |  |  | N. D. Tiwari
(1925–2018)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh | 22 October
1986  | 25 July
1987  | 276 days
(12)  |  |  | Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991)
MP for Amethi
(Prime Minister)  | 25 July
1987  | 25 June
1988  | 336 days
(11)  |  |  | P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004)
MP for Ramtek | 25 June
1988  | 2 December
1989  | 1 year, 160 days
16  |  |  | V. P. Singh
(1931–2008)
MP for Fatehpur
(Prime Minister)  | 2 December
1989  | 5 December
1989  | 3 days | Janata Dal | Vishwanath |  | V. P. Singh
17  |  |  | Inder Kumar Gujral
(1919–2012)
MP for Jalandhar | 5 December
1989  | 10 November
1990  | 340 days
18  |  |  | Chandra Shekhar
(1927–2007)
MP for Ballia
(Prime Minister)  | 10 November
1990  | 21 November
1990  | 11 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar |  | Chandra Shekhar
19  |  |  | Vidya Charan Shukla
(1929–2013)
MP for Mahasamund | 21 November
1990  | 20 February
1991  | 91 days
(18)  |  |  | Chandra Shekhar
(1927–2007)
MP for Ballia
(Prime Minister)  | 20 February
1991  | 21 June
1991  | 121 days
20  |  |  | Madhavsinh Solanki
(1927–2021)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat | 21 June
1991  | 31 March
1992  | 284 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao |  | P. V. Narasimha Rao
(11)  |  |  | P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004)
MP for Nandyal
(Prime Minister)  | 31 March
1992  | 18 January
1993  | 293 days
(7)  |  |  | Dinesh Singh
(1925–1995)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh | 18 January
1993  | 10 February
1995  | 2 years, 23 days
21  |  |  | Pranab Mukherjee
(1935–2020)
Rajya MP for West Bengal | 10 February
1995  | 16 May
1996  | 1 year, 96 days
(9)  |  |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow
(Prime Minister)  | 16 May
1996  | 21 May
1996  | 5 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
22  |  |  | Sikander Bakht
(1918–2004)
Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh | 21 May
1996  | 1 June
1996  | 11 days
(17)  |  |  | Inder Kumar Gujral
(1919–2012)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar
(Prime Minister from 21 April 1997)  | 1 June
1996  | 21 April
1997  | 1 year, 290 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda |  | H. D. Deve Gowda
21 April
1997  | 18 March
1998  | Gujral |  | Self
(9)  |  |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow
(Prime Minister)  | 19 March
1998  | 5 December
1998  | 261 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
23  |  |  | Jaswant Singh
(1938–2020)
Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan | 5 December
1998  | 13 October
1999  | 3 years, 208 days
13 October
1999  | 1 July
2002  | Vajpayee III
24  |  |  | Yashwant Sinha
(born 1937)
MP for Hazaribagh | 1 July
2002  | 22 May
2004  | 1 year, 326 days
25  |  |  | Natwar Singh
(1931–2024)
Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan | 23 May
2004  | 6 November
2005  | 1 year, 167 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I |  | Manmohan Singh
26  |  |  | Manmohan Singh
(1932–2024)
Rajya Sabha MP for Assam
(Prime Minister)  | 6 November
2005  | 24 October
2006  | 352 days
(21)  |  |  | Pranab Mukherjee
(1935–2020)
MP for Jangipur | 24 October
2006  | 22 May
2009  | 2 years, 210 days
27  |  |  | S. M. Krishna
(1932–2024)
Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka | 23 May
2009  | 28 October
2012  | 3 years, 158 days | Manmohan II
28  |  |  | Salman Khurshid
(born 1953)
MP for Farrukhabad | 28 October
2012  | 26 May
2014  | 1 year, 210 days
29  |  |  | Sushma Swaraj
(1952–2019)
MP for Vidisha | 26 May
2014  | 30 May
2019  | 5 years, 4 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I |  | Narendra Modi
30  |  |  | S. Jaishankar
(born 1955)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat | 31 May
2019  | Incumbent  | 6 years, 39 days | Modi II
Modi III

## Ministers of state

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No. | Portrait  | Minister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency | Term of office  | Political party  | Ministry  | Prime Minister

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From  | To  | Period
1  |  |  | Syed Mahmud
(1889–1971)
MP for Gopalganj | 7 December
1954  | 17 April
1957  | 2 years, 131 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II |  | Jawaharlal Nehru
2  |  |  | Lakshmi N. Menon
(1899–1994)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar | 16 April
1962  | 24 January
1966  | 3 years, 283 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru IV
Nanda I |  | Gulzarilal Nanda
Shastri |  | Lal Bahadur Shastri
Nanda II |  | Gulzarilal Nanda
3  |  |  | Dinesh Singh
(1925–1995)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh | 24 January
1966  | 13 March
1967  | 1 year, 48 days | Indira I |  | Indira Gandhi
4  |  |  | Bali Ram Bhagat
(1922–2011)
MP for Arrah | 14 November
1967  | 14 February
1969  | 1 year, 92 days | Indian National Congress | Indira II
5  |  |  | Surendra Pal Singh
(1917–2009)
MP for Bulandshahr | 5 February
1973  | 10 October
1974  | 1 year, 247 days | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira III |
6  |  |  | Samarendra Kundu
(1930–?)
MP for Balasore | 14 August
1977  | 28 July
1979  | 1 year, 348 days | Janata Party | Desai |  | Morarji Desai
7  |  |  | Bedabrata Barua
(born 1928)
MP for Kaliabor | 4 August
1979  | 14 January
1980  | 163 days | Indian National Congress (Urs) | Charan |  | Charan Singh
8  |  |  | A. A. Rahim
(1920–1995)
MP for Chirayinkil | 2 September
1982  | 31 October
1984  | 2 years, 59 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV |  | Indira Gandhi
9  |  |  | Ram Niwas Mirdha
(1924–2010)
Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan | 2 August
1984  | 31 October
1984  | 90 days
(8)  |  |  | A. A. Rahim
(1920–1995)
MP for Chirayinkil | 4 November
1984  | 31 December
1984  | 57 days | Rajiv I |  | Rajiv Gandhi
(9)  |  |  | Ram Niwas Mirdha
(1924–2010)
Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan
10  |  |  | Khurshed Alam Khan
(1919–2013)
MP for Farrukhabad | 31 December
1984  | 25 September
1985  | 268 days | Rajiv II
11  |  |  | K. R. Narayanan
(1921–2005)
MP for Ottapalam | 25 September
1985  | 22 October
1986  | 1 year, 27 days
12  |  |  | Eduardo Faleiro
(born 1940)
MP for Mormugao | 12 May
1986  | 14 February
1988  | 1 year, 278 days
13  |  |  | Natwar Singh
(1929–2024)
MP for Bharatpur | 22 October
1986  | 2 December
1989  | 3 years, 41 days
14  |  |  | Kamla Kant Tiwari
MP for Buxar | 25 June
1988  | 22 April
1989  | 301 days
15  |  |  | Hari Kishore Singh
(1934–2013)
MP for Sheohar | 23 April
1990  | 10 November
1990  | 201 days | Indian People's Front | Vishwanath |  | Vishwanath Pratap Singh
16  |  |  | Eduardo Faleiro
(born 1940)
MP for Mormugao | 21 June
1991  | 18 January
1993  | 1 year, 211 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao |  | P. V. Narasimha Rao
17  |  |  | R. L. Bhatia
(1920–2021)
MP for Amritsar | 2 July
1992  | 16 May
1993  | 318 days
18  |  |  | Salman Khurshid
(born 1953)
MP for Farrukhabad | 18 January
1993  | 16 May
1996  | 3 years, 119 days
19  |  |  | Saleem Iqbal Shervani
(born 1953)
MP for Badaun | 9 June
1997  | 19 March
1998  | 332 days | Samajwadi Party | Gujral |  | Inder Kumar Gujral
20  |  |  | Kamala Sinha
(1932–2014)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar | Janata Dal
21  |  |  | Vasundhara Raje
(born 1953)
MP for Jhalawar | 20 March
1998  | 13 October
1999  | 1 year, 207 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II |  | Atal Bihari Vajpayee
22  |  |  | Ajit Kumar Panja
(1936–2008)
MP for Calcutta North East | 13 October
1999  | 16 March
2001  | 1 year, 154 days | All India Trinamool Congress | Vajpayee III
23  |  |  | Krishnam Raju
(1940–2022)
MP for Narasapuram | 30 September
2000  | 22 July
2001  | 295 days | Bharatiya Janata Party
24  |  |  | Omar Abdullah
(born 1970)
MP for Srinagar | 22 July
2001  | 23 December
2002  | 1 year, 154 days | Jammu and Kashmir National Conference
25  |  |  | Digvijay Singh
(1955–2010)
MP for Banka | 1 July
2002  | 22 May
2004  | 1 year, 326 days | Janata Dal (United)
26  |  |  | Vinod Khanna
(1946–2017)
MP for Gurdaspur | 29 January
2003  | 22 May
2004  | 1 year, 114 days | Bharatiya Janata Party
27  |  |  | E. Ahamed
(1938–2017)
MP for Ponnani | 23 May
2004  | 22 May
2009  | 4 years, 364 days | Indian Union Muslim League | Manmohan I |  | Manmohan Singh
28  |  |  | Rao Inderjit Singh
(born 1951)
MP for Mahendragarh | 22 May
2004  | 29 January
2006  | 1 year, 252 days | Indian National Congress
29  |  |  | Anand Sharma
(born 1953)
Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh | 29 January
2006  | 22 May
2009  | 3 years, 113 days
30  |  |  | Preneet Kaur
(born 1944)
MP for Patiala | 28 May
2009  | 26 May
2014  | 4 years, 363 days | Manmohan II
31  |  |  | Shashi Tharoor
(born 1956)
MP for Thiruvananthapuram | 28 May
2009  | 19 April
2010  | 326 days
32  |  |  | E. Ahamed
(1938–2017)
MP for Malappuram | 19 January
2011  | 26 May
2014  | 3 years, 127 days | Indian Union Muslim League
33  |  |  | General
V. K. Singh (Retd.)
PVSM AVSM YSM ADC
(born 1950)
MP for Ghaziabad | 26 May
2014  | 30 May
2019  | 5 years, 4 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I |  | Narendra Modi
34  |  |  | M. J. Akbar
(born 1951)
Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh | 5 July
2016  | 17 October
2018  | 2 years, 104 days
35  |  |  | V. Muraleedharan
(born 1958)
Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra | 31 May
2019  | 9 June
2024  | 5 years, 9 days | Modi II
36  |  |  | Meenakshi Lekhi
(born 1967)
MP for New Delhi | 7 July
2021  | 9 June
2024  | 2 years, 338 days
37  |  |  | Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
(born 1952)
MP for Inner Manipur | 7 July
2021  | 9 June
2024  | 2 years, 338 days
38  |  |  | Kirti Vardhan Singh
(born 1966)
MP for Gonda | 10 June
2024  | Incumbent  | 1 year, 29 days | Modi III
39  |  |  | Pabitra Margherita
(born 1974)
Rajya Sabha MP for Assam

## Deputy ministers

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No. | Portrait  | Minister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency | Term of office  | Political party  | Ministry  | Prime Minister

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From  | To  | Period
Deputy Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations
1  |  |  | B. V. Keskar
(1903–1984)
MCA for Madras | 7 December
1948  | 26 January
1950  | 1 year, 50 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I |  | Jawaharlal Nehru
Deputy Minister of External Affairs
(1)  |  |  | B. V. Keskar
(1903–1984)
MCA for Madras | 31 January
1950  | 13 May
1952  | 2 years, 103 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I |  | Jawaharlal Nehru
2  |  |  | Anil Kumar Chanda
(1906–1976)
MP for Birbhum | 12 August
1952  | 17 April
1957  | 4 years, 262 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II
17 April
1957  | 1 May
1957  | Nehru III
3  |  |  | Lakshmi N. Menon
(1899–1994)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar | 17 April
1957  | 10 April
1962  | 4 years, 358 days
4  |  |  | Dinesh Singh
(1925–1995)
MP for Pratapgarh | 8 May
1962  | 27 May
1964  | 3 years, 261 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru IV
27 May
1964  | 9 June
1964  | Nanda I |  | Gulzarilal Nanda
15 June
1964  | 11 January
1966  | Shastri |  | Lal Bahadur Shastri
11 January
1966  | 24 January
1966  | Nanda II |  | Gulzarilal Nanda
5  |  |  | Surendra Pal Singh
(1917–2009)
MP for Bulandshahr | 18 March
1967  | 18 March
1971  | 5 years, 352 days | Indian National Congress | Indira II |  | Indira Gandhi
| Indian National Congress (R) |
18 March
1971  | 5 February
1973  | Indira III
6  |  |  | Bipinpal Das
(1923–2005)
Rajya Sabha MP for Assam | 17 October
1974  | 24 March
1977  | 2 years, 158 days
7  |  |  | Digvijay Singh
(1955–2010)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar | 28 November
1990  | 21 June
1991  | 205 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar |  | Chandra Shekhar

## See also

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* Indian Foreign Secretary
* S Jaishankar

## References

[edit]

## External links

[edit]

* Official Website of Ministry of External Affairs
* MEA Library

* v
* t
* e

External affairs ministers of India

* Jawaharlal Nehru
* Gulzarilal Nanda
* Lal Bahadur Shastri
* Swaran Singh
* M. C. Chagla
* Indira Gandhi
* Dinesh Singh
* Yashwantrao Chavan
* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra
* P. V. Narasimha Rao
* Rajiv Gandhi
* Bali Ram Bhagat
* P. Shiv Shankar
* N. D. Tiwari
* V. P. Singh
* Inder Kumar Gujral
* Vidya Charan Shukla
* Madhavsinh Solanki
* Pranab Mukherjee
* Sikander Bakht
* Jaswant Singh
* Yashwant Sinha
* Natwar Singh
* Manmohan Singh
* S. M. Krishna
* Salman Khurshid
* International trips
* Sushma Swaraj
* Tenure
* S. Jaishankar (incumbent)
* International trips

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* Civil Aviation
* Commerce and Industry
* Communications
* Co-operation
* Corporate Affairs
* Electronics and Information Technology
* Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
* Information and Broadcasting
* Labour and Employment
* Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
* Mines
* Steel
* Textiles
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Infrastructure|

* Development of North Eastern Region
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* Ports, Shipping and Waterways
* Railways
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Food|

* Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare
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| Africa|

* Algeria
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* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Asia|

* Afghanistan
* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* Brunei
* Cambodia
* China
* Hong Kong
* Tibet
* East Timor
* Georgia
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* North Korea
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Taiwan
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen

Europe|

* Albania
* Austria
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Holy See
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Italy
* Kosovo
* Latvia
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* North Macedonia
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* Cayman Islands

Oceania|

* Australia
* Fiji
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Micronesia
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Cook Islands
* Niue
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Vanuatu

Former|

* Soviet Union
* Yugoslavia

Multilateral relations

* 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue
* ASEAN
* Africa (Summit)
* BASIC
* BIMSTEC
* BBIN
* BRICS (4th, 8th, 13th summit)
* Central Asia
* Commonwealth of Nations
* East Asia Summit
* European Union
* G4
* G20
* G77
* I2U2 Group
* IBSA
* Indian Ocean Naval Symposium
* Indian Ocean Rim Association
* Pacific Islands
* Forum for India–Pacific Islands Cooperation
* Latin America
* International Solar Alliance
* Mekong–Ganga Cooperation
* Non-Aligned Movement (7th Summit)
* Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
* Sanctions
* SAARC
* Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
* United Nations

Diplomacy

* History
* Ministry of External Affairs
* Minister
* Foreign Secretary
* Diplomatic missions of India / in India (in Chennai)
* Ambassadors and High Commissioners of India / to India
* Foreign aid by India / to India
* Indian diaspora
* Overseas citizens
* Foreign policy
* ITEC programme
* Look East policy
* Pan-African e-Network project
* Indira Gandhi government
* Narendra Modi government
* Asian
* Middle Eastern
* Act East)
* Kashmir conflict
* Siachen conflict
* Conflicts with Pakistan
* Disputes with China
* Disputes with Nepal
* State visits to India
* State visits by prime ministers of India
* Jawaharlal Nehru
* Indira Gandhi
* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Manmohan Singh
* Narendra Modi
* Visits by external affairs ministers of India
* Salman Khurshid
* S. Jaishankar

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