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The United States Ambassador to India is the chief diplomatic representative of
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. The U.S. Ambassador's office is situated at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.


Chiefs of Mission to India


U.S. Ambassadors to the Dominion of India (1947-1950)

President George Washington, on November 19, 1792, nominated Benjamin Joy of Newbury Port as the first American Consul to Calcutta (now Kolkata) and later commissioned Joy to that office on November 21, 1792.


U.S. Ambassadors to the Republic of India (1950-present)


See also

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Embassy of India, Washington, D.C. The Embassy of India in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of India to the United States. It is headed by the Indian Ambassador to the United States. The current Ambassador is Taranjit Singh Sandhu. India also has consula ...
* India – United States relations *
List of ambassadors of India to the United States The Indian Ambassador to the United States of America is the chief diplomatic representative of India to the United States, housed in the Embassy of India, Washington, D.C. The current ambassador is Taranjit Singh Sandhu who succeeded Harsh Va ...
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Foreign relations of India India has diplomatic relations with 201 states/dependencies around the globe, having 199 missions and posts operating globally while plans to open new missions in 2020–21 hosted by 11 UN Member States. The Ministry of External Affairs ( ...
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References


United States Department of State: Background notes on India
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Sources

*Brands, H. W. ''Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire 1918-1961 (1991)'' pp 196–230; Loy Henderson was US Ambassador, 1948–51


Primary sources

*, US ambassador 1951-53 and 1963–69 * Galbraith, John K. ''Ambassador's journal: a personal account of the Kennedy years'' (1969
online
he was US ambassador to India 1961-63 *U.S. Department of State. '' Foreign Relations of the United States'' (''FRUS''), many volumes of primary sources; the complete texts of these large books are all online. Se
Guide to FRUS
For example, ''Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971'' was published in 2005 an
is online here
The most recent volumes are ''Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972'' (2005
online here
and ''Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–8, Documents on South Asia, 1973–1976'' (2007
online here
Included are the most important cables sent by the ambassador to Washington.


External links

* {{Ambassadors of the United States
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...