Editing Natwar Singh

{{Short description|Indian politician (1931–2024)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = K. Natwar Singh
| image               = K. Natwar Singh 2005.jpg
| caption             = Singh in 2005
| imagesize           = 200px
| office1             = [[Indian External Affairs Minister|Minister of External Affairs]]
| term_start1         = 22 May 2004
| term_end1           = 6 December 2005
| primeminister1      = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| predecessor1        = [[Yashwant Sinha]]
| successor1          = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| office2             = [[Minister without portfolio]]
| term_start2         = 8 December 2005
| term_end2           = 22 May 2009
| primeminister2      = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| predecessor2        = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| successor2          = [[Arun Jaitley]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|05|16}}
| birth_place         = [[Bharatpur district|Jaghina]], [[Bharatpur State]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Rajasthan]], India)
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2024|08|10|1931|05|16}}
| death_place         = [[Gurgaon|Gurugram]], [[Haryana]], India
| nationality         = Indian
| party               = [[Indian National Congress]] (1984–2006)<br>[[Bahujan Samaj Party]] (2008)<ref name="p315"/>
| relations           = 
| children            = 2, including [[Jagat Singh (politician)|Jagat Singh]]
| residence           = New Delhi
| occupation          = Politician
| spouse              = Heminder Kaur
| signature           = 
| alma_mater          = [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]<br> [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]]
| awards              = [[Padma Bhushan]]
| education           = [[Mayo College]]
}}

'''Natwar Singh''' (16 May 1931 – 10 August 2024) was an Indian politician and a [[diplomat]] of the [[Indian Foreign Service]] who  served as the [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Minister of External Affairs of India]] from May 2004 to December 2005. Having been suspended by the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) in 2006,<ref name="d796">{{cite web | title=Natwar Singh quits Congress party | website=Hindustan Times | date=13 February 2008 | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/natwar-singh-quits-congress-party/story-UdhHsFOi3rOp2thnbwEe0H.html | access-date=11 August 2024 | archive-date=2 March 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302214142/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/natwar-singh-quits-congress-party/story-UdhHsFOi3rOp2thnbwEe0H.html | url-status=live }}</ref> he joined the [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] (BSP) in 2008 but was removed from the party within four months.<ref name="n993">{{cite web | title=BSP expels former external affairs minister Natwar Singh | website=The Times of India | date=18 November 2008 | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bsp-expels-former-external-affairs-minister-natwar-singh/articleshow/3728259.cms | access-date=11 August 2024 | archive-date=11 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811035053/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bsp-expels-former-external-affairs-minister-natwar-singh/articleshow/3728259.cms | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p315">{{cite web | last=India | first=Press Trust of | title=Natwar Singh joins BSP | website=India Today | date=10 August 2008 | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/natwar-singh-joins-bsp-28187-2008-08-09 | access-date=11 August 2024 | archive-date=11 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811032815/https://www.indiatoday.in/latest-headlines/story/natwar-singh-joins-bsp-28187-2008-08-09 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Singh was selected into the [[Indian Foreign Service]] in 1953. In 1984, he resigned from the service to contest elections as a member of the INC party. He won the election and served as a [[Union Council of Ministers|union minister of state]] until 1989. Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in 2004. However, 18 months later, he had to resign after the [[United Nations]]' (UN) [[Paul Volcker Committee|Volcker committee]] named both he and the INC to which he belonged as beneficiaries of illegal pay-offs in the scandal related to the UN's [[Oil-for-Food Programme]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/29/stories/2005102923960100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051031034552/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/29/stories/2005102923960100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 October 2005 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=29 October 2005 |title=Volcker Report names Natwar Singh and Congress Party as "beneficiaries" }}</ref>

In 2014, he wrote his autobiography ''One Life is Not Enough''. This book was criticised for its attempt to create sensation, while the Congress criticised Natwar Singh for distortion of facts due to his removal from the political position.<ref name="d772"/><ref name="f224"/>

== Early life and education==
The fourth son of Govind Singh and his wife Prayag Kaur of village 'Jagheena', Singh was born in the [[Bharatpur State|princely state of Bharatpur]] in an aristocrat [[Jat]] [[Hindu]] family related to the ruling dynasty of Bharatpur.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ashok-gehlot-jat-community-rajasthan/1/278633.html |title=India Today |access-date=27 May 2014 |archive-date=27 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527215128/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ashok-gehlot-jat-community-rajasthan/1/278633.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He attended [[Mayo College]], [[Ajmer]], a traditional educational institutions for Indian princely clans and nobles. Thereafter he took an undergraduate degree at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni|St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]. He subsequently studied at [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]] and was a visiting scholar for a period at [[Peking University]] in [[China]].<ref>{{cite web |title=K Natwar Singh: External Affairs Minister |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/k-natwar-singh-external-affairs-minister/story-GWnOoIuJsc0q3RYQpaRT0J.html |website=Hindustan Times |access-date=4 May 2020 |language=en |date=18 June 2004 |archive-date=4 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504194258/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/k-natwar-singh-external-affairs-minister/story-GWnOoIuJsc0q3RYQpaRT0J.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Diplomatic career==
Singh joined the [[Indian Foreign Service]] in 1953 and served for 31 years. One of his earliest assignments was in Beijing, China (1956–58). He was then posted to New York City at the Permanent Mission of India (1961–66) and as India's representative to executive board of [[UNICEF]] (1962–66). He served on several UN committees between 1963 and 1966. In 1966, he was posted to the Prime Minister's Secretariat under [[Indira Gandhi]]. He served as India's Ambassador to Poland from 1971 to 1973, India's Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1973 to 1977 and India's Ambassador to Pakistan from 1980 to 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3178.htm|access-date=26 December 2021|archive-date=26 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226135602/http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3178.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He was part of the Indian delegation to the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Heads of Commonwealth Meeting]] in [[Kingston, Jamaica]] in 1975. He was an Indian Delegate to the 30th Session of the [[United Nations General Assembly]], New York, Heads of Commonwealth Meeting, [[Lusaka]], Zambia in 1979 and the 35th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York. He also accompanied Indira Gandhi on her State visit to the US in 1982. He served as an Executive Trustee, [[United Nations Institute for Training and Research]] (UNITAR) appointed by the Secretary-General, United Nations for six years (1981–86). He also served on the Expert Group appointed by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, London in 1982. He was appointed Secretary-General of the Seventh Non-aligned Summit in New Delhi held in 1983 and Chief Coordinator of the [[Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting]] (CHOGM) in New Delhi in the same year. He served as [[Secretary to the Government of India|Secretary]] in the Ministry of External Affairs from March 1982 to November 1984. He received the [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest civilian award in India from the [[Government of India]], in 1984.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Political career==
[[File:Shri Natwar Singh assumes the charge of Union Minister for External Affairs in New Delhi on May 24, 2004.jpg|thumb|Natwar Singh assumes the charge of Union Minister for External Affairs in New Delhi on 24 May 2004]]

In 1984, after resigning from the [[Indian Foreign Service]], Singh joined the Indian National Congress (INC) party and was elected to the [[8th Lok Sabha]] from [[Bharatpur Lok Sabha constituency|Bharatpur constituency]] in [[Rajasthan]]. In 1985, he was sworn in as a [[Union Council of Ministers|minister of state]] (who is a minister, but one level below a cabinet minister) and allotted the portfolios of [[Ministry of Steel|steel]], [[Ministry of Coal|coal]] and [[Ministry of Mines (India)|mines]], and [[Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare|agriculture]]. In 1986, he became minister of state for [[Ministry of External Affairs (India)|external affairs]]. In that capacity, he was elected President of the United Nations (UN) Conference on Disarmament and Development held in New York in 1987, and also led the [[Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations|Indian delegation]] to the 42nd Session of the [[UN General Assembly]].

Singh remained a minister of state for external affairs until the Congress party lost power after being defeated in the general elections of 1989. In those elections, he contested and lost the [[Mathura (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mathura]] seat in [[Uttar Pradesh]]. The Congress party returned to power after the elections of 1991, with [[P.V. Narasimha Rao]] as Prime Minister since Rajiv Gandhi had been assassinated. At this time, Singh was not an [[Member of Parliament|MP]] and could not be a minister. He developed differences with the Prime Minister and left the party along with [[N.D. Tiwari]] and [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]], to form a new political party, [[All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)|All India Indira Congress]]. 

In 1998, after [[Sonia Gandhi]] had regained complete control of the party, the three family loyalists merged their new party into the Congress party and returned into the service of the Gandhis. Singh was rewarded with a ticket to contest the general elections of 1998, and returned to parliament after a gap of nine years, when he was elected to the [[12th Lok Sabha]] (1998–99) from Bharatpur. Singh had defeated the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]’s (BJP) [[Digamber Singh|Dr. Digamber Singh]], who would go on to become Rajasthan’s Minister of Health, Family Welfare, and later Industries, and emerge as the tallest leader in eastern Rajasthan in the early 2000s, virtually upending Singh’s hold in the region.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DR. DIGAMBER SINGH - Bharatpur - Lok Sabha Election Results 1998 |url=https://www.electiontak.in/lok-sabha-1998/rajasthan/dr-digamber-singh-bharatpur-results-367548 |access-date=30 July 2024 |website=www.electiontak.in}}</ref> He had to sit in the opposition benches, however, and then he lost the elections of 1999. After a further hiatus of three years, he was elected (indirectly) to the [[Rajya Sabha]] from Rajasthan in 2002. The Congress party came back to power in 2004, and Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] appointed Natwar Singh as the [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Minister of External affairs]].

===Oil-for-Food scandal===
Singh assumed office on 23 May 2004 as India's minister of external affairs. On 27 October 2005, while Singh was abroad on an official visit, the [[Paul Volcker Committee|Independent Inquiry Committee]] headed by [[Paul Volcker]] released the report on its investigation of corruption in the [[Oil-for-Food Programme]]. It included statements that India's Congress Party and Singh's family were non-contractual and corrupt beneficiaries of the Oil-for-Food Programme.<ref>{{cite news|title=Volcker Report names Natwar Singh and his family as "beneficiaries"|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/29/stories/2005102923960100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051031034552/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/29/stories/2005102923960100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 October 2005|access-date=30 May 2011|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=29 October 2005}}</ref> Anil Mathrani, then Indian Ambassador to Croatia and formerly a close aide to Singh, alleged that Singh had used an official visit to Iraq to procure oil coupons for his son, [[Jagat Singh (politician)|Jagat Singh]], from [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam's]] regime.<ref>{{cite news|last=Singh|first=Onkar|title=Natwar Singh resigns from Union Cabinet|url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/06volcker10.htm|access-date=30 May 2011|newspaper=rediff News|date=6 December 2005|archive-date=12 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312005115/http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/06volcker10.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 26 March 2006, the [[Enforcement Directorate]] (ED) announced that it had traced a sum of eighty million rupees that had been transferred from the bank account of [[London]]-based [[Indian diaspora|Non-Resident Indian]] (NRI) businessman and family relative of Singh, Aditya Khanna, the son of businessman [[Vipin Khanna]], to his own NRI account in a [[Delhi]] bank.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=Richard |last2=McKenzie |first2=Nick |date=16 August 2010 |title=Money in the bag - Indian trade links under scrutiny |url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/money-in-the-bag--indian-trade-links-under-scrutiny-20100815-125au.html |access-date=22 April 2025 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref> The amount was later withdrawn and allegedly distributed among Indian beneficiaries of the reported scam.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Thakur|first=Pradeep|title=Oil-for-food: ED traces Rs 8-cr to Delhi bank|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Oil-for-food-ED-traces-Rs-8-cr-to-Delhi-bank/articleshow/1464457.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614052809/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-03-26/india/27799357_1_oil-for-food-bank-accounts-aditya-khanna|url-status=live|archive-date=14 June 2012|access-date=30 May 2011|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=26 March 2006}}</ref>

Singh was suspended by the Congress in 2006.<ref name="d796"/>

===Later career===
In February 2008, Singh announced that he had quit the Congress at a BJP-sponsored rally of the [[Jat people|Jat community]] held at [[Jaipur]] in the presence of [[Vasundhara Raje]], then [[Chief Minister]] of [[Rajasthan]]. On this occasion, Singh not only asserted his innocence but also launched an attack on Sonia Gandhi for having failed to defend or support him.<ref>{{cite web|title=Home " Nation Natwar Singh quits Congress|url=http://www.zeenews.com/news424175.html|publisher=Zee News|access-date=30 May 2011|date=13 February 2008}}</ref>

In mid-2008, both Singh and his son Jagat joined [[Mayawati]]'s [[Bahujan Samaj Party]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=9 August 2008|title=Natwar Singh to join BSP|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/natwar-singh-to-join-bsp/story-cXyaAR0z03ayo46MScxIDI.html|access-date=26 December 2021|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=26 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226135559/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/natwar-singh-to-join-bsp/story-cXyaAR0z03ayo46MScxIDI.html|url-status=live}}</ref> only to be expelled by that party within four months (in November 2008) for alleged indiscipline, anti-party activities and "lack of faith" in the ideology of the Bahujan Samaj Movement. In fact, Singh had been demanding a Rajya Sabha seat (which had apparently been promised before he joined the party) and Mayawati had changed her mind on that matter.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mayawati has no courtesy: Natwar Singh|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/mayawati-has-no-courtesy-natwar-singh/635247|access-date=26 December 2021|website=www.outlookindia.com/|archive-date=26 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226135559/https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/mayawati-has-no-courtesy-natwar-singh/635247|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Singh |first1=K. Natwar |title=A diplomat's diary |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/a-diplomats-diary/article4952391.ece |website=The Hindu |access-date=4 May 2020 |language=en-IN |date=27 July 2013 |archive-date=4 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504194406/https://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/a-diplomats-diary/article4952391.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> Jagat Singh later joined the BJP.<ref name="u721">{{cite web | last=Mishra | first=Sachin Kumar | title=Jagat Singh Join BJP: नटवर सिंह के पुत्र जगत सिंह फिर भाजपा में हुए शामिल | website=Jagran | date=14 August 2021 | url=https://www.jagran.com/rajasthan/jaipur-natwar-singh-son-jagat-singh-again-join-bjp-21929037.html | language=hi | access-date=11 August 2024}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
In August 1967, Singh married Heminder Kaur (born June 1939), the eldest daughter of the last [[Maharaja of Patiala|Maharaja]] of [[Patiala State]], [[Yadavindra Singh of Patiala|Yadavindra Singh]], and the sister of [[Captain Amarinder Singh|Amarinder Singh]], who had served as the [[List of chief ministers of Punjab, India|Chief Minister of Punjab]]. Heminder's mother [[Rajmata Mohinder Kaur of Patiala|Mohinder Kaur]] was also a politician.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=The Dispatch|date=16 May 2020|title=K Natwar Singh and his life of revelations - about him, by him|url=https://www.thedispatch.in/k-natwar-singh-and-his-life-of-revelations-about-him-by-him/|access-date=26 December 2021|website=The Dispatch|language=en-US|archive-date=15 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215100455/https://www.thedispatch.in/k-natwar-singh-and-his-life-of-revelations-about-him-by-him/|url-status=live}}</ref> Singh’s son, Jagat Singh, is also a politician.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 January 2019 |title=BSP fields two-time former MLA Jagat Singh from Ramgarh |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/bsp-fields-two-time-mla-jagat-singh-from-ramgarh/articleshow/67389661.cms |access-date=13 April 2025 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

Natwar Singh died in Gurugram on 10 August 2024, at the age of 95.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.news9live.com/india/former-foreign-minister-natwar-singh-passes-away-at-95-2652101 |title=Former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh passes away at 95 |access-date=10 August 2024 |archive-date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810190805/https://www.news9live.com/india/former-foreign-minister-natwar-singh-passes-away-at-95-2652101 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Autobiography==
In August 2014, Singh's autobiography, ''One Life is Not Enough'', was released.<ref name="thehindu1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/one-life-is-not-enough-natwar-singhs-autobiography-to-rock-the-capital/article6116868.ece |title="One Life is Not Enough": Natwar Singh's autobiography to rock the capital – The Hindu<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=21 July 2014 |archive-date=20 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620040725/http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/one-life-is-not-enough-natwar-singhs-autobiography-to-rock-the-capital/article6116868.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> The book claims to reveal developments during [[Indira Gandhi]]'s, [[Rajiv Gandhi]]'s, [[P. V. Narasimha Rao|Narasimha Rao]]'s and [[Manmohan Singh]]'s regimes. It also describes the changing contours of Singh's close but complex political relationship with [[Indian National Congress]] president [[Sonia Gandhi]] over the years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/inside-track-kissa-kursi-ka/99/ |title=Inside Track: Kissa kursi ka {{!}} The Indian Express {{!}} Page 99<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=21 July 2014 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714130107/http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/inside-track-kissa-kursi-ka/99/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The book presents Singh's account of the Volcker report and the various political motions that took place in the background leading up to his resignation.

Congress rejected the allegations made by Singh and targeted him to have distorted facts "after being removed and publishes baseless things". They added that "spreading such sensationalism for shoring up the sale of a book" won't be accepted.<ref name="f224">{{cite web | title=Natwar Singh 'distorting' facts: Congress | website=The Hindu | date=31 July 2014 | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/natwar-singh-distorting-facts-congress/article6268386.ece | access-date=11 August 2024 | archive-date=11 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811030520/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/natwar-singh-distorting-facts-congress/article6268386.ece | url-status=live }}</ref>

Sonia Gandhi also responded to the book and rejected its contents. She even expressed the intention to write her own autobiography to reveal the truth.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/sonia-gandhi-reacts-to-natwar-singhs-claims-says-will-write-a-book-to-reveal-the-truth/articleshow/39351397.cms |title=Sonia Gandhi reacts to Natwar Singh's claims; says will write a book to 'reveal the truth' – Economic Times<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=31 July 2014 |archive-date=13 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413192515/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/sonia-gandhi-reacts-to-natwar-singhs-claims-says-will-write-a-book-to-reveal-the-truth/articleshow/39351397.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> Kallol Chakraborty writing for the ''[[Amar Ujala]]'' noted that the book fraught with the one-sided narrative may create sensation for sometime but it cannot achieve heights in the long run.<ref name="d772">{{cite web | title=वन लाइफ इज नॉट इनफ | website=Amar Ujala | date=13 September 2014 | url=https://www.amarujala.com/columns/opinion/one-life-is-not-enough-an-autobiography-hindi-news-rk | language=hi | access-date=11 August 2024}}</ref>

==Books published==
# ''E.M.Forster : A Tribute'' (on Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday), editor, with Contributions by Ahmed Ali, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao & Santha Rama Rau, New York, 1964
# ''The Legacy of Nehru: A Memorial Tribute'', New York, 1965<ref name="Smith">{{cite journal |last1=E. Smith |first1=Donald |title=Book reviews: The Legacy of Nehru: A Memorial Tribute. by K. Natwar-Singh, S. Radhakrishnan |journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]] |date=May 1966 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=574–575 |doi=10.2307/2052086 |jstor=2052086 |s2cid=163577874 }}</ref>
# ''Tales from Modern India'', New York, 1966
# ''Stories from India'', London, 1971
# ''Maharaja Suraj Mal, 1707-63: His Life and Times'', London, 1981<ref name="Embree">{{cite journal |last=Embree |first=Ainslie |author-link=Ainslie Embree |editor-last=Schaufele |editor-first=William E. |editor-link=William E. Schaufele Jr. |title=Eighteenth Century India |journal=Darshan |date=February 1983 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XG8mJN-CgwoC&pg=RA2-PA55 |access-date=12 January 2020 |publisher=Consulate General of India |location=New York |issn=1044-8977}}</ref>
# ''Curtain Raisers'', Delhi, 1984
# ''Profiles & Letters'', Delhi, 1997
# ''The Magnificent Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (1891–1938)'', Delhi, 1997
# ''Heart to Heart'', Delhi, 2003.
#Yours Sincerely, December 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|date=9 December 2009|title='Yours sincerely', Natwar Singh|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/lsquoYours-sincerelyrsquo-Natwar-Singh/article16852393.ece|access-date=26 December 2021|issn=0971-751X|archive-date=26 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226130553/https://www.thehindu.com/books/lsquoYours-sincerelyrsquo-Natwar-Singh/article16852393.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>
# ''Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past'', Released by Hamid Ansari, March 2013.
# ''One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography'',<ref name="thehindu1"/> August 2014.
#Treasured Epistles, August 2018.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Treasured Epistles|publisher=Rupa Publications|year=2019|isbn=978-9353041564}}</ref>

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[[Category:India MPs 1984–1989]]
[[Category:India MPs 1998–1999]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Poland]]
[[Category:High commissioners of India to Pakistan]]
[[Category:Indian Foreign Service officers]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Ministers for external affairs of India]]
[[Category:Peking University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Bharatpur district]]
[[Category:Rajasthani people]]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in civil service]]
[[Category:Scindia School alumni]]
[[Category:Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Rajasthan]]