List of high commissioners of India to Australia

Head of mission of India to Australia

High Commissioner of India to Australia

Incumbent Gopal Bagalay since 1 January 2024 (2024-01-01)
Ministry of External Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister for External Affairs
Seat	Canberra
Appointer	President of India
Inaugural holder	Raghunath P. Paranjpe
Formation	1945
Website	India High Commission, Canberra

The high commissioner of India to Australia is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Australia.

History

The first high commissioners of India to Australia was R. P. Paranjpye.

K. M. Cariappa was appointed the High Commissioner in 1953. He became known for his opposition to the White Australia policy.

List

S. No.	Name	Entered office	Left office
1	Raghunath P. Paranjpe	1945	1947
2	Daya Singh Bedi	1948	1951
3	M. S. Duleepsinghji	1951	1954
4	K. M. Cariappa	1954	1956
5	K.R. P. Singh	1956	1958
6	P. Achutha Menon	1958	1961
7	Samar Sen	1961	1963
8	B.K. Massand	1963	1965
9	D. N. Chatterjee	1965	1969
10	A. M. Thomas	1969	1972
11	S. Krishnamurti	1972	1975
12	S. Sinha	1975	1977
13	Jagdish Chand Ajmani	1977	1980
14	Krishan Dayal Sharma	1980	1982
15	D.S. Kamtekar	1982	1985
16	Mohammad Hamid Ansari	1985	1989
17	S. K. Bhutani	1989	1992
18	A. M. Khaleeli	1992	1995
19	G. Parthasarathy	1995	1999
20	C. P. Ravindranathan	1999	2000
21	R. S. Rathore	2000	2004
22	R. P. Shukla	2004	2007
23	Sujatha Singh	2007	2012
24	Biren Nanda	2012	2015
25	Navdeep Singh Suri	2015	2016
26	A.M. Gondane	2016	2019
27	A. Gitesh Sarma	2019	2021
28	Manpreet Vohra	2021	2023
29	Gopal Baglay	2024	present

References

Davis, Alexander E. (2015). "A Shared History?: Postcolonial Identity and India-Australia Relations, 1947–1954". Pacific Affairs. 88 (4): 849–869. doi:10.5509/2015884849. hdl:2440/97158. ISSN 0030-851X. JSTOR 24779119.
"Previous High Commissioners". High Commission of India, Canberra. Archived from the original on 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-10-08.

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