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Mr Trump is expected to be his first official Visit to India

US President Donald Trump is an exciting welcome on his first official state Visit to India on Monday and Tuesday.

He follows a long line of leaders who have made The Trip . Some of its predecessors were greeted with enthusiasm; others stumbled on diplomatic gaffes; one of them had even named a village After him.

Can guide the history of how this diplomatic tryst could go? Here's a quick look visited in The Past , in the order they were received.

The Good : President Eisenhower

Let us at the beginning to start.

Dwight D Eisenhower The First US President to Visit to India, was greeted with a 21-gun salute when he landed in The National capital, Delhi, in December 1959. Huge crowds lined The Streets to have a look into The World war attributed to Two heroes in his open-top-car - Mr Trump with a similar reception in Ahmedabad, where he will be doing a road Show .

Dwight D Eisenhower, pictured with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was The First US President to make The Trip

The heat between President Eisenhower and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru helped in what was a rocky phase in US-India relations. This was already the case in the Cold War , when the US and Pakistan were close allies, and India insisted, to remain neutral or "non-aligned". As of today, the relations with China were put in The Core of the India-US equation, with Washington under pressure to make Delhi a more aggressive stance with Beijing on the Tibet issue.

But, on the whole, Eisenhower's four-day trip in the invoice has been submitted, a success. And almost every US-President on a state Visit in India, emulated his Route: he laid flowers at the Mahatma Gandhi 's memorial, took in the splendor of the Taj Mahal , addressed Parliament and spoke in Delhi the iconic Ramlila grounds, according to a news report that drew a million people.

As he said on the left, to Nehru, he had with him "a piece of our Heart ".

President Eisenhower is welcomed by large crowds The game-changer: Bill Clinton

If it was a groundbreaking Visit , it was Bill Clinton would be in March 2000, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Mr Clinton's arrival came After a two-decade Pause - neither Ronald Reagan , nor George Bush Snr made The Trip to the East. It is leagues time came to tweak as Washington's sanctions on Delhi After its 1999 test of an atomic bomb had.

But, according to Navtej Sarna , a former Indian Ambassador to the US, the five-day trip was "a joyful Visit ". It included stops in Hyderabad, a city in The South that arise as a tech hub, and Mumbai, India's Financial Capital . "He came and saw the economic and cyber-potential of India, and the democracy in action," says Mr. Sarna.

The Visit of Bill Clinton has been described as "happy"

Mr. Clinton danced also with the villagers, took a tiger safari, and scanned Delhi's famous creamy black dal (lentils) in a luxury hotel, the associated since then with The President .

The country, the reaction is perhaps expressed best in this New York Times headline: "Clinton-fever - delighted India has all the symptoms. "

nuclear deal: George W Bush

George W Bush, as Forbes magazine once wrote, was the "best American President India ever". His three-day Visit in March 2006, a highlight in the Two Countries ' strategic partnership, especially in matters of trade and Nuclear Technology , topics that you have long wrestled over was. His strong personal dynamics with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was hard to Miss - After he left office, Mr Bush, a passionate artist, also painted a portrait of Mr Singh.

The two leaders are credited for a historic but controversial nuclear deal was signed during Mr Bush's Visit . It brought India, and for decades the signature of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) refused, out of isolation. Energy-hungry India access to US civil Nuclear Technology in exchange for opening up its nuclear facilities for inspections.

George W Bush and Manmohan Singh had a very good relationship

But during The Visit it was not material, it was as spectacular as the others - it was not a trip to the Taj, nor an address to the Parliament. But the timing was important. Anti-American sentiment over The Invasion of Iraq was high, the left MPs staged was a protest against Mr Bush's Visit , and there were demonstrations in other parts of India.

double-Visit : Barack Obama

Barack Obama was the only President to make two official visits. First, in the year 2010 with the Prime Minister , Manmohan Singh , And Then in the year 2015 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi .

on his first Visit - in a break with The Past - he landed in Mumbai instead of Delhi, with a large business delegation. This was not only about economic relations, but a sign of solidarity After the Mumbai attacks of 2008 which killed 166 people. Mr and Mrs Obama stayed in the Taj Mahal hotel, one of the most important goals.

It was significant that the US President said the support for India in a reformed and expanded UN security Council, says Alyssa Ayres , a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia . "All these years later, nothing has changed in the system of the United Nations, is a different matter, but it was a major Policy shift for the United States . "

Barack Obama visited India twice

Mr. Obama returned in 2015 as a chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations, at PM modi's invitation. Trade, defense and Climate Change in the centre of The Talks . The Trip also highlighted an Indo-Pacific strategy, with both leaders a sense of unease over Beijing's provocations in The South China sea expressed.

The not-so-good: Jimmy Carter

Although Jimmy Carter 's two-day Visit in the year 1978 was not a thaw in India-US relations, it was free of problems.

With about 500 reporters in tow, Carter, a densely Packed programme followed: he met the Prime Minister Morarji Desai , was speaking to a joint session of the Parliament, went to the Mahal of the Taj, and something fell from a village outside of Delhi.

The Village , Chuma Kheragaon, had a personal connection: Carter's mother, Lillian, had visited here, as in India as a member of the Peace Corps in the late 1960s. So, when Carter and his wife Rosalynn, The Journey , they gave The Village money and his first TV. It was also renamed to "Carterpuri", a moniker that it still holds.

Jimmy Carter pushes away from the villagers 'Carterpuri'

But were the photo-ops, India and the United States sparring. India was the expansion of its atomic programme and conducted its first test in 1974. The United States wanted to draw India to the NPF, which is trying to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. But India refused, said the agreement to the disadvantage of the developing countries.

In a leaked conversation, the headlines and threatened to derail The Visit , Mr. Carter promised to his Secretary of state, Cyrus Vance , a "very cold and very blunt" letter to Desai. The two leaders signed a Declaration, promising a stronger global cooperation, but Carter India leave, without the assurances that he had hoped for.

ugly: Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon was no stranger to India, as he came in August 1969 for a one-day state Visit . He was here as Vice-President in 1953, and before that on private trips. But, by all accounts, he was not a fan.

"Nixon liked to Indians in General, and despised [the Prime Minister ] Indira Gandhi ," according to Gary Bass, author of the Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten genocide. And, he adds, The Feeling has been said, mutual.

This was at The Height of the Cold War , and India's non-alignment Policy "appalled" by the American President . Mr Bass says that under Gandhi, India's neutrality was in a "markedly pro-Soviet foreign Policy ".

Richard Nixon waves to the masses in addition to Mohammad Hidyatullah, India's President -in-office

The Relationship , the frostier After The Trip to India assured Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in its struggle for independence from Pakistan, a close American ally. The differences were Laid Bare , when Gandhi visited the White house in 1971. State department cable released later that Nixon referred to as the "old witch".

And The Future : Donald Trump

The United States and India have certainly had their UPS and downs, but during The Last official Visit in the year 2015, Mr Obama and Mr modes, a signed Declaration of friendship "Chalein saath saath (Let's move forward Together )." he began.

Obama and modi signed a Declaration of friendship in the year signed 2015

President Trump's Visit , The Relationship will move forward, but it is unclear how.

on His arrival in Ahmedabad, the largest city in PM modi's home state of Gujarat, followed by a large arena event is expected to draw a huge crowd. It will echo President Eisenhower rally in Delhi years, perhaps the strengthening of personal relations between the two leaders.

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Source of news: bbc.com