U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian

• established diplomatic relations with interim government of India on Nov. 1, 1946 after announcing intention on Oct. 22 (Interim gov’t formed on Sept. 2)
• recognized Indian independence on August 15, 1947
• 1992- created position of Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs

• CHIEFS OF MISSION FOR INDIA

  • Henry Francis Grady (1947-1948)
  • Loy Wesley Henderson (1948-)
  • Chester Bliss Bowles (1951-1953)
  • George Venable Allen (1953-1954)
  • John Sherman Cooper (1955-1956)
  • Ellsworth Bunker (1956-1961)
  • John Kenneth Galbraith (1961-1963)
  • Chester Bliss Bowles (1963-1969)
  • Kenneth Barnard Keating (1969-1972)
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1973-1975)
  • William Bart Saxbe (1975-1976)
  • Robert Francis Goheen (1977-1980)
  • Harry George Barnes (1981-1985)
  • John Gunther Dean (1985-1988)
  • John Randolph Hubbard (1988-1989)
  • William Clark (1989-1992)
  • Thomas Reeve Pickering (1992-1993)
  • Kenneth C. Brill (1993-1994)
  • Frank G. Wisner (1994-1997)
  • Richard Frank Celeste (1997-2001)
  • Robert D. Blackwill (2001-2003)
  • David Campbell Mulford (2003-)

Foreign Relations of the United States with India:

FRUS, 1941; FRUS, 1942; FRUS, 1943; FRUS, 1944; FRUS, 1945; FRUS, 1946; FRUS, 1947

Department of State, 1941, courtesy of University of Minnesota