List of Foreign Ministers
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party |
Prime Minister | ||
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| Jawaharlal Nehru | 2 September 1946 | 27 May 1964 | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| Gulzarilal Nanda | 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | Gulzarilal Nanda (interim) |
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| Lal Bahadur Shastri | 9 June 1964 | 17 July 1964 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||
| Sardar Swaran Singh | 18 July 1964 | 14 November 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi |
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| M. C. Chagla | 14 November 1966 | 5 September 1967 | Indira Gandhi | |||
| Indira Gandhi | 6 September 1967 | 13 February 1969 | ||||
| Dinesh Singh | 14 February 1969 | 27 June 1970 | ||||
| Sardar Swaran Singh | 27 June 1970 | 10 October 1974 | ||||
| Yashwantrao Chavan | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | ||||
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | ||
| Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra | 28 July 1979 | 13 January 1980 | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | ||
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 14 January 1980 | 19 July 1984 | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | ||
| Indira Gandhi | 19 July 1984 | 31 October 1984 | ||||
| Rajiv Gandhi | 31 October 1984 | 24 September 1985 | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| Bali Ram Bhagat | 25 September 1985 | 12 May 1986 | ||||
| P. Shiv Shankar | 12 May 1986 | 22 October 1986 | ||||
| N. D. Tiwari | 22 October 1986 | 25 July 1987 | ||||
| Rajiv Gandhi | 25 July 1987 | 25 June 1988 | ||||
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | ||||
| V. P. Singh | 2 December 1989 | 5 December 1989 | Janata Dal |
V. P. Singh | ||
| I. K. Gujral | 5 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | ||||
| Vidya Charan Shukla | 21 November 1990 | 20 February 1991 | Samajwadi Janata Party |
Chandra Shekhar | ||
| Madhavsinh Solanki | 21 June 1991 | 31 March 1992 | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | ||
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | 31 March 1992 | 18 January 1993 | ||||
| Dinesh Singh | 18 January 1993 | 10 February 1995 | ||||
| Pranab Mukherjee | 10 February 1995 | 16 May 1996 | ||||
| Sikander Bakht | 21 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| I. K. Gujral | 1 June 1996 | 18 March 1998 | Janata Dal |
H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral |
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| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 19 March 1998 | 5 December 1998 | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| Jaswant Singh | 5 December 1998 | 23 June 2002 | ||||
| Yashwant Sinha | 1 July 2002 | 22 May 2004 | ||||
| K. Natwar Singh | 22 May 2004 | 6 November 2005 | Indian National Congress |
Manmohan Singh | ||
| Manmohan Singh | 6 November 2005 | 24 October 2006 | ||||
| Pranab Mukherjee | 24 October 2006 | 22 May 2009 | ||||
| S. M. Krishna | 22 May 2009 | 26 October 2012 | ||||
| Salman Khurshid | 28 October 2012 | Incumbent | ||||
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