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Name change to Minister for External Affairs of India

The position is officially called "Minister for External Affairs" and not "Foreign Minister". This is a designation similar to the US position called Secretary of State. I see no reason to call it foreign minister - that can remain as a redirect, but can't be the title of this official position! mukerjee (talk) 18:22, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, External Affairs Minister or External Affairs Minister, India Official website --Ekabhishek (talk) 10:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Minister of State, External Affairs

No	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1.	Laxmi N Menon	16 April 1962	9 September 1964
2.	Laxmi N Menon	15 June 1964	24 January 1966
3.	Dinesh Singh	24 January 1966	13 March 1967
4.	Bali Ram Bhagat	14 November 1967	14 February 1969
5.	Surendrapal Singh	5 February 1973	10 October 1972
6.	Samarendra Kundu	16 August 1977	28 July 1979
7.	Bedabrata Barua	5 August 1979	13 January 1980
8.	Abubakar Abdul Rahim	3 September 1982	31 October 1984
9.	Ram Niwas Mirdha	2 August 1984	31 October 1984
10.	Abubakar Abdul Rahim	4 November 1984	31 December 1984
11.	Ram Niwas Mirdha	4 November 1984	31 December 1984
12.	Khurseed Alam Khan	31 December 1984	25 September 1985
13.	K. R. Narayanan	25 September 1985	22 October 1986
14.	Eduardo Falerio	12 May 1986	14 February 1988
15.	K Deepak kumar	22 October 1986	2 December 1989
16.	Prof. K K Tiwari	27 June 1988	4 December 1989
17.	Hari Kishore Singh	21 April 1990	10 November 1990
18.	Eduardo Falerio	21 June 1991	17 January 1993
19.	Raghunandan Lal Bhatia	2 July 1992	16 May 1996
20.	Salman Khursheed	19 January 1993	16 May 1996
21.	Saleem Iqbal Shervani	9 May 1997	19 March 1998
22.	Kamala Sinha	3 June 1997	19 March 1998
23.	Vasundhara Raje	19 March 1998	13 October 1999
24.	Ajit Kumar Panja	13 October 1999	15 March 2001
25.	U V Krishnam Raju	30 September 2000	22 July 2001
26.	Omar Abdullah	23 December 2002
27.	Digvijay Singh	1 July 2002	22 May 2004
28.	Vinod Khanna	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
29.	Anand Sharma	22 May 2004	22 May 2009
30.	Rao Inderjit Singh	29 January 2006	28 May 2009
31.	Shashi Tharoor	28 May 2009	18 April 2010
32.	Preneet Kaur	28 May 2009	January 2011
32.	E. Ahamed	January 2011	current

References

^ Ministry of External Affairs Library Website accessed 24 Oct, 2006.

Deputy Foreign Ministers of India

No	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Other Positions
1.	Dr. B V Keshkar	7 December 1948	26 January 1950	Commonwealth Relations
2.	Dr. B V Keskar	31 January 1950	13 May 1952
3.	Anil K Chanda	12 August 1952	6 December 1954
4.	Dr.Syed Mahmud	7 December 1954	17 April 1957
5.	Laxmi N Menon	18 April 1957	10 April 1962
6.	Dinesh Singh	8 May 1962	24 January 1966
7.	Bipinpal Das	17 October 1974	24 March 1977
8.	Digvijay Singh	29 November 1990

Requested move 13 March 2017

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The result of the move request was: Procedural close – Move requests for several articles with the same rationale should be grouped into a single RM, per instructions at WP:RM#Requesting multiple page moves. — JFG ^talk 06:37, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Minister of External Affairs (India) → List of Foreign Ministers of India – This is merely a list -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 08:52, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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