Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took office just last month, has accepted an invitation from President Barack Obama to visit Washington D.C. in September.
If the visit happens as scheduled, he will be the latest leader of the world’s largest democracy to visit the world’s second largest democracy.
The relationship goes both ways. U.S. Presidents going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower have made visits to India. Click here to see the list of U.S. presidents who have made the trek to South Asia.
While most Indian Prime Ministers had official visits to the United States, six Indian premiers–including Lal Bahadur Shastri and H.D. Deve Gowda–did not visit the states while they were in office.
Here is a list of some of the trips made by prime ministers according to the U.S. Department of State.
Jawaharlal Nehru: The first prime minister of independent India went to the U.S. in 1949 and then in 1956 at which time he visited Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
Indira Gandhi: Ms. Gandhi visited the U.S. three times during her years in office. Her first visit was in 1966 when Lyndon B. Johnson was the president. Her second visit came in 1971 and her final visit was in 1982.
Indira Gandhi, left, stood next to Richard Nixon during an official ceremony during her visit to the U.S. in November 1971. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Morarji Desai: Mr. Desai went to the U.S. in 1978 visiting New York, San Francisco and Omaha.
Morarji Desai. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Rajiv Gandhi: Mr. Gandhi visited the U.S. two times in 1985 and once in 1987. He was assassinated two months after his 1987 visit.
Rajiv Gandhi addressed a crowd during election campaign rally at Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
P.V. Narasimha Rao: Mr. Rao–who is credited for starting to open India’s economy– visited the U.S. twice during his four years in office. He met President George H.W. Bush during a U.N. Security Council Summit in New York in 1992. He visited again two years later to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
P.V. Narasimha Rao, left, with Hillary Clinton. Douglas E. Curra/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Inder Kumar Gujral: Though Mr. Gujral served as India’s prime minister for less than a year, he found time to visit New York where he met President Bill Clinton at the U.N. General Assembly in 1997.
Inder Kumar Gujral. Sena Vidanagama/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Mr. Vajpayee—the last prime minister from Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party–visited the U.S. four times during his five years in office, twice in 2001 and once each in 2002 and 2003.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, right, posed for photographs with George W. Bush in New York, Sept. 24, 2003. Luke Frazza/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Manmohan Singh: Mr. Singh was the prime minister for close to ten years until last month. He visited the U.S. on no less than seven occasions.
via Timeline: Indian Prime Minister Visits to the U.S. – India Real Time – WSJ.
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