1951
Reciprocal State Visits of Myanmar and Indian Leaders
room India
people U Nu Pandit Nehru President Rajendra Prasad
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Myanmar in 2012 was one of the dozens of visits between Indian and Myanmar heads of government and state to each other's countries since both countries became independent.
These photographs were taken during Burmese Prime Minister U Nu's visit to India in 1951. The first image shows Pandit Nehru (right of centre, all in white) at Palam Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport), Delhi to greet U Nu (left of centre wearing a gaung baung, or traditional headdress, and surrounded by journalists). The second photograph shows U Nu and Pandit Nehru together with President Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India. U Nu was then 45 years old and had been Prime Minister for three years. He and Pandit Nehru were good friends.