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Relations between India and Spain are warm since the establishment of democracy in Spain in 1978. Diplomatic relations between India and Spain were established in 1956 with the opening of the Spanish Embassy in New Delhi. [6] Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II, the Maharaja of Jaipur, was appointed in 1965 as the first Ambassador of India to Spain. [7]
According to the statistics of India's Ministry of External Affairs, they number only 35,000, or 0.07% of the population of Spain. [2] 2009 statistics of Spain's Instituto Nacional de Estadística showed 35,686 Indian citizens in Spain; this figure does not include persons of Indian origin holding other citizenships. [3]
Spain, like other parts of the world, used local mean time until 31 December 1900. [2] In San Sebastián on 22 July 1900, the president of the Consejo de Ministros, Francisco Silvela, proposed to the regent of Spain, María Cristina, a royal decree to standardise the time in Spain; thus setting Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00) as the standard time in peninsular Spain, the Balearic Islands and ...
Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, Boxer Codex (c. 1590). With the Portuguese guarding access to the Indian Ocean around the Cape, a monopoly supported by papal bulls and the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spanish contact with the Far East waited until the success of the 1519–1522 Magellan–Elcano expedition that found a Southwest Passage around South America ...
In 2016, BLS International was awarded a contract by Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MAEC) for global visa outsourcing, valued at €175 million. [9] Additionally, the company was contracted by the Government of Punjab, India to manage 2,147 Seva Kendras as part of an e-governance project. [10]
New Spain's first viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, prudently refrained from enforcing the parts of the New Laws most objectionable to the encomenderos. [6] Over time, the encomenderos complied with most aspects of the laws. Most already maintained a horse and arms in case of Indian rebellion, and had established a residence in a Spanish settlement.
Indian emigrants to Spain (2 P) S. Spanish people of Sindhi descent (1 P) Pages in category "Spanish people of Indian descent" The following 6 pages are in this ...
Patnaik served as India's Ambassador to Cambodia from September 2012 to August 2015, then to Morocco between September 2015 and August 2016. He then worked as Deputy High Commissioner of India in the United Kingdom between November 2018 and July 2019.