List of Indian ambassadors in Bhutan

In January 1968 the Indian government sent Brijbir Saran Das to Bhutan as chargé d'affaires . He resided in the Jungshina paper mill called India House. In 1978 the Indian diplomatic mission in Thimphu was upgraded to an embassy .

list

Appointed / Accredited	Head of Mission	Remarks	appointed by	during the government of	Leave post
1968	Brajbir Saran Das		Indira Gandhi	Lhendup Dorji	1972
1972	Ashok B. Gokhale		Indira Gandhi	Lhendup Dorji	1974
1974	Jagan Nath Khosla	Envoy in Prague	Indira Gandhi	Lhendup Dorji	1977
1977	Jagdish Rudraya Hiremath		Morarji Desai	Lhendup Dorji	1980
1980	Salman Haider		Indira Gandhi	Lhendup Dorji	1983
1983	TO Ram		Indira Gandhi	Lhendup Dorji	1986
1986	Nareshwar Dayal		Rajiv Gandhi	Lhendup Dorji	1989
1989	Vinod C. Khanna	studied in Bombay and Oxford, was employed in the IFS and headed the East Asia department, from 1985 to 1988 Ambassador to Jakarta.	Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Lhendup Dorji	1991
March 1992	Pushkar Johari		PV Narasimha Rao	Lhendup Dorji	March 1995
Apr 1995	Dalip Mehta		PV Narasimha Rao	Lhendup Dorji	Dec 1998
Dec 1998	Pradeep Kumar Singh		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Jigme Thinley	Aug 2000
Nov 4, 2000	Kanwar Singh Jasrotia		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Yeshey Zimba	May 2005
July 2005	Sudhir Vyas		Manmohan Singh	Sangay Ngedup	Apr. 2009
May 2009	Pavan K. Varma		Manmohan Singh	Jigme Thinley	Jan. 2013
Jan. 12, 2013	VP Haran		Manmohan Singh	Jigme Thinley	July 2014
Aug. 2014	Gautam Bambawale		Manmohan Singh	Tshering Tobgay	Dec 2015
Jan. 2016	Jaideep Sarkar		Narendra Modi	Tshering Tobgay

Web link

• List of Former Ambassadors to Bhutan. Embassy of India Thimphu, Bhutan, accessed February 14, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 'Memoirs Of An Indian Diplomat' By Mr. BS Das. Book summary. posted on flickr.com, accessed February 14, 2017 .