Kenya and India: a Nairobi commissioner's office from 1948, a High Commission from independence, and a community of 80,000

Background

India set up a Commissioner's office for British East Africa in Nairobi in 1948, and Apa Saheb Pant was the first Commissioner.
Following Kenyan independence in December 1963, a High Commission was established in Nairobi in the same year.
Bilateral trade in the financial year 2025-26 stood at 4.31 billion US dollars, with Indian exports to Kenya of 4.01 billion US dollars.
India is Kenya's third largest trading partner.
A community of persons of Indian origin in Kenya numbers around 80,000, including an estimated 20,000 Indian citizens.
The Indian member of Parliament Diwan Chaman Lall joined Jomo Kenyatta's defence team at his 1953 trial, an early link between the two countries' political histories.