List of Indian High Commissioners in the United Kingdom
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The list of Indian High Commissioner in London listed all since 1920 appointed High Commissioners of the Commonwealth , the India mission abroad against the United Kingdom represented.
The Indian High Commissioner heads the High Commission of India in London , formerly also the High Commission for India , another form for the High Commissioner is Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom .
Legal basis
The Government of India Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5 c. 101) allowed a High Commissioner living in London to represent the Governor General and Viceroy of India to the British government.
The legal basis for the Indian diplomatic mission in London was renewed by the Government of India Act 1935 (26 GEo. 5. CH. 2) in Paragraph 302.
Official seat
The official seat is the India House in Aldwych , a street in the east of the City of Westminster in London . Initially, four houses were rented. The Embassy of India House was new in a historic style on the initiative from 1925 by the High Commissioner Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee by architect Sir Herbert Baker built by King and on 8 July 1930 George V opened.
Embassy departments
The India House also houses the Indian Consulate for the public, which reports to the High Commissioner. The culture department of the Indian embassy is located in the Nehru Center, which opened in 1992 .
Directory of names
| Appointed | Head of the diplomatic mission | appointed by | during the government of | Leave post | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 1920 | William Stevenson Meyer | Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford | David Lloyd George | 1922 | (* July 30, 1860 in Bombay; † October 19, 1922 in London) |
| 1922 | JW Bhore | Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading | 1923 | Bhore only remained in office for six months | |
| 1923 | Dadiba Dalal | Stanley Baldwin | 1924 | (* December 12, 1870) | |
| 1925 | Atul Chandra Chatterjee | Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton | 1931 | ||
| 1931 | Bhupendra Nath Mitra | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon | 1936 | (* October 1875 in Calcutta ; † February 25, 1937) | |
| 1936 | Feroz Khan Noon | Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow | 1941 | ||
| June 10, 1943 | Samuel Ebenezer Runganadhan | Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell | Winston Churchill | 1947 | (* December 30, 1877 in Madras ), also: Diwan Bahadur Samuel Ebenezer Ranganathan |
| 1947 | VK Krishna Menon | Jawaharlal Nehru | 1952 | first high commissioner after independence; involved in the Jeep scandal case , the great corruption scandal of 1948 | |
| 1952 | BG Kher | 1954 | Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher (* 1888; † 1957) | ||
| 1954 | Manilal Jagdish Desai | 1954 | officiating; (* 1904) | ||
| 1954 | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | 1962 | |||
| Apr. 1962 | Mahommedali Currim Chagla | Harold Macmillan | Sep 1963 | 1958–1961: Ambassador to Washington, DC; from 1963 Indian Minister of Education | |
| 1968 | Shanti Swaroop Dhavan | Indira Gandhi | Harold Wilson | 1969 | |
| 1969 | Apasaheb Balasaheb Pant | 1972 | (* 1918) | ||
| 1972 | Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra | Edward Heath | 1973 | ||
| 1973 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 1977 | |||
| 1977 | Narayan Ganesh Gore | Morarji Desai | James Callaghan | 1979 | (1907--1 May 1993) |
| 8 Sep 1980 | VA Seyid Muhammad | Indira Gandhi | Margaret Thatcher | (* 1923 Kerala) | |
| 1985 | PC Alexander | Rajiv Gandhi | 1988 | Padinjarethalakal Cherian Alexander (* March 20, 1921 - August 10, 2011 in Chennai) | |
| 1990 | Kuldip Nayar | Chandra Shekhar | John Major | 1991 | |
| 1991 | Laxmi Mall Singhvi | PV Narasimha Rao | 1997 | ||
| 1996 | Lalit Mansingh | HD Deve Gowda | 1999 | ||
| Dec 10, 1997 | Salman Haidar | Indian Kumar Gujral | Tony Blair | ||
| 1997 | Lalit Mansingh | 1999 | |||
| 2001 | Hardeep Singh Puri | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 2002 | Deputy High Commissioner to the UK | |
| May 2002 | Ronen Sen | Apr. 2004 | Ranendra "Ronen" Sen (* 1944) was previously the Indian ambassador to Germany, then ambassador to the United States | ||
| 2004 | Kamalesh Sharma | Manmohan Singh | 2008 | ||
| 2008 | Shivshankar Mukherji | Gordon Brown | |||
| 2010 | Nalin Surie | David Cameron | |||
| Feb. 27, 2012 | Jaimini Bhagwati | current |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Government of India Act, 1919 , Sec. 35, p. 27; Text archive - Internet Archive .
- ^ The Government of India Act, 1935 . Semester paper of the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (English) accessed on May 4, 2013.
- ^ Government of India Act 1935, p. 192 (PDF; 8 MB).
- ^ The Government of India Act, 1935 . Semester paper of the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy (English) accessed on May 4, 2013.
- ↑ Consular Information ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on May 4, 2013.
- ^ Sir William Meyer, Death occurs in London street . The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.), October 21, 1922
- ↑ Atul Chandra Chatterjee (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ↑ Did British intelligence try to 'get rid' of Krishna Menon?
- ↑ Manilal Jagdish Desai was chairman of the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICS)
- ↑ Apa B. Pant ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.rememberingthemasters.org
- ↑ PC Alexander passes away
- ↑ Salman Haidar on hindu.com
- ↑ Nalin Surie ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pictures on the HCI website
- ↑ Brief profile of Jaimini Bhagwati ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the HCI website, with a portrait photo, accessed on May 4, 2013.
