List of Indian Ambassadors to the United States

• Asaf Ali
  Asaf Ali
  Asaf Ali was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Orissa....
  
   (1947-1948)
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the great-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, all of whom served as Prime Minister of India.In 1921 she married Ranjit Sitaram Pandit, who died on 14 January 1944...
  
   (1949-1952)
• Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
  Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
  Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta was the ambassador of India to the United States from 1952 to 1958. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1954 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1959....
  
   (1952-1958)
• M.C. Chagla (1958-1961)
• Braj Kumar Nehru
  Braj Kumar Nehru
  Braj Kumar Nehru was the son of Brijlal and Rameshwari Nehru and a relative of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru....
  
   (1961-1968)
• Ali Yavar Jung
  Ali Yavar Jung
  Nawab Ali Yavar Jung was an eminent Indian diplomat. He was governor of the Indian state of Maharashtra from 1971 to 1976....
  
   (1968-1970)
• Lakshmi Kant Jha
  Lakshmi Kant Jha
  'Lakshmi Kant Jha' , born in Darbhanga, Bihar, or L. K. Jha as he was called, was the eighth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1967 to 3 May 1970...
  
   (1970-1973)
• T.N. Kaul (1973-1976)
• Kewal Singh (1976-1977)
• Nanabhoy Palkhivala
  Nanabhoy Palkhivala
  Nanabhoy "Nani" Ardeshir Palkhivala was an Indian jurist and economist.- Early years :Nani Palkhivala was born in 1920 in Bombay to blue collar, middle-class Parsi parents...
  
   (1977-1979)
• K.R. Narayanan (1980-1984)
• K. Shankar Bajpai (1984-1986)
• P.K. Kaul (1986-1989)
• Karan Singh
  Karan Singh
  Karan Singh is an MP in the Rajya Sabha, a senior member of the ruling Indian National Congress Party serving as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Department, President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations , India's Ambassador to UNESCO, Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and of the Temple...
  
   (1989-1990)
• Abid Hussain
  Abid Hussain
  Dr. Abid Hussain is an Indian Economist and Diplomat. He is married to Trilok Karki, author of "Sino-Indian Conflict and International Politics in the Indian Sub-Continent", and has three children. His brother is the actor and mime artist Irshad Panjatan. Dr...
  
   (1990-1992)
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray
  Siddhartha Shankar Ray
  Siddhartha Shankar Ray was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was a prominent barrister, Punjab Governor and Education minister of India...
  
   (1992-1996)
• Naresh Chandra (1996-2001)
• Lalit Mansingh
  Lalit Mansingh
  Dr. Lalit Mansingh is the former Indian diplomat, the Foreign Secretary of India, 1999–2000, and Indian Ambassador to the United States on March 15, 2001...
  
   (2001-2004)
• Ronen Sen
  Ronen Sen
  Ranendra "Ronen" Sen was India's ambassador to the United States of America from August 2004 to March 2009. His contribution landmark US India Nuclear deal is considered of immense importance -Career:...
  
   (2004-2009)
• Meera Shankar
  Meera Shankar
  Meera Shankar served as India's Ambassador to the United States of America from 2009 to 2011. She was India's second female ambassador to the United States of America, Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit being the first. She was succeeded by Nirupama Rao on August 1,2011.Shankar, an Indian Foreign...
  
   (2009-2011)
• Nirupama Rao
  Nirupama Rao
  Nirupama Menon Rao is a 1973 batch Indian Foreign Service officer who is the current Ambassador of India to the United States of America since August 2011...
  
   (2011-Present)

External links

• India Ambassador, Official page at Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.
• Ministry of External Affairs, Official website