New Delhi, April 21 -- US vice president JD Vance is set to arrive in New Delhi with his family on Monday for a three-day visit that will include a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with ongoing trade negotiations expected to figure in the talks.

Much of the focus of the trip to India, however, will be on cultural engagements and visits to tourist sites in Jaipur and Agra that are aimed at introducing Vance's three children - sons Ewan and Vivek and daughter Mirabel - to the country where their mother Usha traces her roots.

India is the second leg of a week-long two-nation tour by Vance that began on April 18 and has already taken him to Italy. This is his first visit to India, and Modi and Vance last met on the margins of the AI...