Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan

She spent time with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru before visiting Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, Varanasi, Udaipur and Jaipur.

On 21 March, Kennedy left India to begin a five day tour in Pakistan, where she was greeted by President Ayub Khan.

According to United States Secret Service agent Clint Hill, a plan for a 17-day goodwill tour to India by Jacqueline Kennedy was eventually trimmed to nine.

[1] The private visit was initially scheduled for January 1962, but rescheduled for March due to at first the then recent annexation of Goa and resulting deterioration in US-Indian relations, and then Kennedy's cold.

[2] The interior of the aircraft front, for the sisters, was transformed to provide as much comfort as Air Force One, and to the rear accommodated a large press team.

[2] The United States Information Agency prioritised the tour as important enough to allocate its filming to a Hollywood producer and cameraman, rather than the usual documentary team.

[2][11] Having circled the airfield several times due to Kennedy not being ready, B. K. Nehru described her eventual appearance from the aircraft as "a vision of beauty, perfectly coiffed and clothed".

[2] At Kennedy's request, they continued their journey to Varanasi by rail, and then by air to Udaipur, where they stayed at the Fortress Palace of the Maharana for two nights.

[14] On her last day in India, the Prime Minister helped her make a selection from the one hundred books she ordered on Mughal art.

[4] One of her trips, accompanied by Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan, included greeting Pathan tribal leaders at Jamrud Fort near the Khyber Pass.

[7][19] Kennedy's fashion style, which she preferred not to talk about, was a regular topic of discussion in the media by the time of her India and Pakistan tour.

[3] Worried about the response to her expensive wardrobe, she jokingly told her press secretary that "if you say anything, tell them it's secondhand and that I bought everything at the Ritz Thrift Shop".

[3] Working for the Chicago Daily News, Keyes Beech was one of the foreign correspondents who covered what they called Kennedy's "glorified fashion show".

[7] According to Braden, Kennedy was generally quiet and kept reporters guessing her thoughts, the result of which was that they had "little more to scribble down than her "how sweet" when she saw camels dance or her "oh, how magnificent"" when she first saw the Taj Mahal".

[7] Life dedicated several pages to the trip, the national press detailed every outfit both the sisters wore, and Newsweek gave the tour a mention as a "smash hit".

[2] Biographer Barbara Leaming, noted that Kennedy's success in India added pressure to do likewise in Pakistan, and her five days there received a favourable response in the media.