Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gifted Queen Elizabeth some tea, honey, ornate stoles and memories from her first visit to India 54 years ago.
PM Modi handed over photographs taken during the Queen's 1961 visit, when she was the chief guest at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi.
At the time, the Queen had also visited other cities including Varanasi, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Udaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai.
In the photographs, she is seen at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, at a reception by the then State of Madras where she was presented a cake to mark the first birthday of Prince Andrew and riding an elephant in Varanasi, now the parliamentary constituency of PM Modi.
The prime minister also gifted the Queen award-winning Darjeeling tea from the Makaibari tea estate in West Bengal, organic honey from Jammu and Kashmir, and Tanchoi stoles, a speciality of Varanasi.
PM Modi lunched with the Queen on day 2 of his visit to the UK.
Earlier, PM Modi gifted British Prime Minister David Cameron a handcrafted pair of bookends made of wood, marble and silver and inscribed with a Sanskrit verse from the Bhagavad Gita.
PM Modi, who stayed overnight at Chequers, Mr Cameron's country retreat in Buckinghamshire, also gifted him David Omissi's book 'Indian Voices of the Great War'. The book is a compilation of letters sent by Indian soldiers during the World War I when they served in France.
He gifted the First Lady an Aranmula metal mirror, a unique handicraft from Kerala, and some pashmina stoles.
PM Modi handed over photographs taken during the Queen's 1961 visit, when she was the chief guest at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi.
At the time, the Queen had also visited other cities including Varanasi, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Udaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai.
The prime minister also gifted the Queen award-winning Darjeeling tea from the Makaibari tea estate in West Bengal, organic honey from Jammu and Kashmir, and Tanchoi stoles, a speciality of Varanasi.
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Earlier, PM Modi gifted British Prime Minister David Cameron a handcrafted pair of bookends made of wood, marble and silver and inscribed with a Sanskrit verse from the Bhagavad Gita.
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He gifted the First Lady an Aranmula metal mirror, a unique handicraft from Kerala, and some pashmina stoles.
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