Foreign relations of India
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India, officially the Republic of India, has full diplomatic relations with 201 states, including Palestine, the Holy See, Niue and the Cook Islands. The Ministry of External Affairs is the government
Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st Prime Minister of India, addressing the United Nations (1948)
Pranab Mukherjee, the former Finance Minister of India and former President of India with former US President George W. Bush in 2008.
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar meeting US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon, 29 September 2023.
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the opening ceremony of the third Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), at Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on 4 March 2014
India–Pakistan relations
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India and Pakistan have a complex and largely hostile relationship that is rooted in a multitude of historical and political events, most notably the partition of British India in August 1947.
Foreign relations of India
…colonies, like the Indonesian National Revolution. The partition and various territorial disputes, particularly that over Kashmir, would strain its relations with Pakistan for years to come. During the Cold War, India adopted a foreign policy of not aligning itself with any major power bloc. However, India developed close…
Jinnah and Gandhi engaged in a heated conversation. A well-known photograph recently attributed to Kulwant Roy.
A refugee special train at Ambala Station during the partition of India
India claims the entire erstwhile British Indian princely state of Jammu and Kashmir based on an instrument of accession signed in 1947.
Pakistan's Lt Gen Niazi (sitting second from right) signing the Instrument of Surrender, following the defeat of Pakistan in the India–Pakistan war of 1971.