{"record":{"aliases":["Triloki Nath Kaul","Tikki Kaul"],"appointmentIds":["india-b8b485671c6127"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":["kaul-ford"],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/t-n-kaul-dc4d322883/","countrySlug":"india","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/t-n-kaul-dc4d322883/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Triloki Nath Kaul trained in law at Allahabad and London and moved from the Indian Civil Service into diplomacy at independence. His early foreign assignments included Moscow, Washington, and Beijing. He subsequently chaired the international commission supervising the settlement in Vietnam, represented India in Iran and the Soviet Union, and served as deputy high commissioner in London.","Kaul was foreign secretary from 1968 to 1972, then ambassador to the United States from 1973 to 1976. As first secretary in Washington in August 1949, he accompanied Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in talks with Dean Acheson about Kashmir. During Indira Gandhi's November 1971 visit, he led the Indian advisers' discussion with American officials, questioning whether negotiations could succeed while Sheikh Mujibur Rahman remained imprisoned and insisting that the refugees from East Pakistan must be able to return. He presented credentials to Nixon on June 14, 1973.","When Gerald Ford became president in August 1974, Kaul brought a message from Gandhi seeking better relations and renewed her invitation for an American presidential visit. Their Oval Office conversation addressed a proposed bilateral commission, trade legislation, and India's objections to restrictions in American development legislation. Henry Kissinger also acknowledged Kaul's assistance in contacts involving North Vietnam; Kaul mentioned meeting relatives of missing American servicemen.","Kaul later represented India at UNESCO from 1980 to 1985 and returned as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1986 to 1989."],"id":"india:t. n. kaul","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-dc4d32288370f98a3bd9.html","name":"T. N. Kaul","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["kaul-memoir-review","kaul-nehru","kaul-oval"],["kaul-nehru","kaul-washington-1949","kaul-gandhi-1971","kaul-ford"],["kaul-oval"],["kaul-nehru"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-dc4d32288370f98a3bd9.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"33661a0b1cc18749","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1973-05","id":"kaul-ford","locator":"PDF page 82, biographic sketch","publisher":"Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library","title":"Ambassadors and their Wives, Biographies (1): Triloki Nath Kaul","type":"archive","url":"https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0018/81556589.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":null,"id":"kaul-nehru","locator":"Biographical heading, career chronology","publisher":"The Nehru Archive","title":"Triloki Nath Kaul","type":"reference","url":"https://nehruarchive.in/people/t-n-kaul"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1974-08-21","id":"kaul-oval","locator":"Oval Office memorandum of conversation","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","title":"FRUS 1969–1976, volume E–8, document 173","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve08/d173"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1982-08","id":"kaul-memoir-review","locator":"Georges Fischer's review of Kaul's memoirs, issue 424, pages 178–179; full review, paragraphs on education and early career","publisher":"Revue Défense Nationale","title":"Reminiscences, Discreet and indiscreet","type":"scholarship","url":"https://www.defnat.com/e-RDN/vue-article.php?carticle=17493&cidrevue=424"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1949-08-30","id":"kaul-washington-1949","locator":"FRUS, 1949, volume VI, document 1207, participant list and Kashmir discussion","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian","title":"Memorandum of Conversation by the Secretary of State, 30 August 1949","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v06/d1207"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1971-11-04","id":"kaul-gandhi-1971","locator":"FRUS, 1969–1976, volume E–7, document 149; Saunders–Hoskinson memorandum to Kissinger","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian","title":"Gandhi Visit—Advisors' Meeting in Cabinet Room","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve07/d149"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-a0e0b3afef06a979754b","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Historical representation: British India","type":"Mission record","url":"https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/94044.htm"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Reviewed 21 October 2026","id":"mission-605c94568f7cef8b38d8","locator":"Official ambassador roster with year level tenures. Some chargés, acting heads, and representatives from 1946 remain undocumented.","publisher":"","title":"Previous Ambassadors","type":"Mission record","url":"https://indianembassyusa.gov.in/previousambassadors"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Reviewed 21 October 2026","id":"mission-6430d748a3debb3eb636","locator":"Official schedule records an October 6, 1975 dinner by Foreign Minister Y. B. Chavan honoring Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Indian Ambassador residence, 2700 Macomb Street. Schedule is evidence of planned event, not by itself proof of completion.","publisher":"","title":"India (3), Presidential Country Files","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0327/1113278.pdf"}],"topics":["Cold War","Vietnam","Indo-Soviet relations","trade","UNESCO"]},"schemaVersion":1}