India-US relationships
India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting the US in 1949. But it took another ten years for Washington to return the call with president Dwight D Eisenhower going to India in December 1959
Pandit Nehru and Eisenhower Dec-11-1959
Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and Vice-
President S. Radhakrishnan and American President Eisenhower Dec-11-1959
Indian President Rajendra Prasad and American President Eisenhower driving in state for the opening ceremony of the World Agriculture Fair on December 11, 1959.
1969: Richard Nixon
1978: Jimmy Carter
2000: Bill Clinton
2006: George W Bush
Barack Obama 2015
Barack Obama, visited India in November 2010. He became the second US president after Nixon in 1969 to visit India in his first term in office and the second after Eisenhower to address a joint session of the Indian Parliament. Calling the India-US relationship "a defining partnership of the 21st century," he also backed India's quest for permanent membership of UN Security Council.
Obama given his clarification to China there would be no problems either effects to China with visiting or relations with India.
