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List of governors of # Name From To Term length

1 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi 1 October 1953 1 August 1957 1,401 days

2 1 August 1957 8 September 1962 1,865 days

3 Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh 8 September 1962 4 May 1964 605 days

4 Pattom A. Thanu Pillai 4 May 1964 11 April 1968 1,439 days

5 Khandubhai Kasanji Desai 11 April. 1968 25 January 1975 2,481 days

6 S. Obul 25 January 1975 10 January 1976 351 days

7 Mohanlal Sukhadia 10 January 1976 16 June 1976 159 days

8 Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare 16 June 1976 17 February 1977 247 days

9 B. J. Divan 17 February 1977 5 May 1977 78 days

10 Sharda Mukherjee 5 May 1977 15 August 1978 468 days

11 K. C. Abraham 15 August 1978 15 August 1983 1,827 days

12 Thakur 15 August 1983 29 August 1984 381 days

13 29 August 1984 26 November 1985 455 days

14 Kumud Ben Joshi 26 November 1985 7 February 1990 1,535 days

15 7 February 1990 22 August 1997 2,754 days

16 Gopala Ramanujam 22 August 1997 24 November 1997 95 days

17 C. Rangarajan 24 November 1997 3 January 2003 1,867 days

18 3 January 2003 4 November 2004 672 days

19 4 November 2004 29 January 2006 452 days

20 29 January 2006 22 August 2007 571 days

21 N. D. Tiwari 22 August 2007 27 December 2009 859 days

[2] 22 E. S. L. Narasimhan 28 December 2009 23 July 2019 3,495 days

23 24 July 2019 Incumbent 26 days

List of governors of List of Chief Commissioners of Arunachal Pradesh # Name Took Office Left Office

1 K. A. A. Raja 20 January 1972 1973

2 Manohar L. Kampani 1974 1975 List of Lieutenant Governors of Arunachal Pradesh # Name Took Office Left Office

1 K. A. A. Raja 15 August 1975 18 January 1979

2 R. N. Haldipur 18 January 1979 23 July 1981

3 H. S. Dubey 23 July 1981 10 August 1983

4 Thanjavelu Rajeshwar 10 August 1983 21 November 1985

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5 Shiva Swaroop 21 November 1985 20 February 1987 List of Governors of Arunachal Pradesh Data from Arunachal Pradesh 's Secretariat[2] and Directorate of Information & Public Relations, Government of Arunachal Pradesh[3] # Name Took Office Left Office

1 20 February 1987 18 March 1987

2 R. D. Pradhan 18 March 1987 16 March 1990

3 Gopal Singh 16 March 1990 8 May 1990

4 Devi Das Thakur 8 May 1990 16 March 1991

5 Loknath Mishra 16 March 1991 25 March 1991

6 Surendranath Dwivedy 25 March 1991 4 July 1993

7 Madhukar Dighe 4 July 1993 20 October 1993

8 Mata Prasad 20 October 1993 16 May 1999

9 S. K. Sinha 16 May 1999 1 August 1999

10 Arvind Dave 1 August 1999 12 June 2003

11 V. C. Pande 12 June 2003 15 December 2004

12 16 December 2004 23 January 2007 — M. M. Jacob (Acting) 24 January 2007 6 April 2007 — K. Sankaranarayanan (Acting) 7 April 2007 14 April 2007

(12) Shilendra Kumar Singh 15 April 2007 3 September 2007 — K. Sankaranarayanan (Acting) 3 September 2007 26 January 2008

13 Joginder 26 January 2008 28 May 2013

14 28 May 2013 31 May 2015

15 1 June 2015 9 July 2016

16 10 July 2016 12 August 2016

(15) Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa 13 August 2016 13 September 2016

17 V. Shanmuganathan 14 September 2016 27 January 2017 (resigned) 18 [4] 28 January 2017 2 October 2017 19 B. D. Mishra [5] 3 October 2017 Incumbent

List of governors of British military commanders in occupied Assam (1824–26) In 1824, British forces occupied Assam, which was politically never part of either India or Burma George McMorine, 1824 Arthur Richards, 1824–26 British political agents in Assam (1826–28) On 24 February 1826, the Treaty of Yandaboo ceded portions of Assam from Burma to Britain. David Scott, 1826–28 Commissioners of Assam (1828–74) In 1828, Western Assam was incorporated into the province of Bengal, followed by the rest of Assam in 1833. A Commissioner of Assam was appointed, subordinate to the Governor of Bengal. David Scott, 1828–20 August 1831, continued

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Thomas Campbell Robertson, 1831–34 Francis Jenkins, 1834–61 Henry Hopkinson, 1861–74 Chief commissioners of Assam (1874–1905) In 1874, Assam was separated from the , and its status was upgraded to a chief commissioner's province. Richard Harte Keatinge, 1874–78 Steuart Colvin Bayley, 1878–81 Sir Charles Alfred Elliott, 1881–85 William Erskine Ward, 1885–87, first time Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, 1887–89 James Westland, 1889 James Wallace Quinton, 1889–91 William Erskine Ward, 1891–96, second time Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, 1896–1902 Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller, 1902–05 Lieutenant governors of East Bengal and Assam (1905–12) In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor. Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller, 1905–06 Lancelot Hare, 1906–11 Charles Stuart Bayley, 1911–12 Chief commissioners of Assam (1912–21) In 1912, East Bengal was re-incorporated into the Bengal presidency, and was again governed by a chief commissioner. Sir Archdale Earle, 1912–18 Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell, 1918–3 January 1921 Governors of Assam (1921–47) In 1921, the chief commissionership was upgraded to governor. Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell, 3 January 1921 – 2 April 1921 Sir William Sinclair Marris, 3 April 1921 – 10 October 1922 Sir John Henry Kerr, 10 October 1922 – 28 June 1927 Sir Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond, 28 June 1927 – 11 May 1932 Sir Michael Keane, 11 May 1932 – 4 March 1937 Robert Neil Reid, 4 March 1937 – 4 May 1942 Henry Joseph Twynam, 24 February 1938 – 4 October 1939, (acting for Reid) Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow, 4 May 1942 – 4 May 1947 Rederik Chalmers Bourne, 4 April 1946–?, (acting for Clow) Henry Foley Knight, 4 September 1946 – 23 December 1946, (acting for Clow) Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, 4 May 1947 – 15 August 1947 Governors of Assam since 1947 # Name Tenure 8 Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari 15 August 1947 – 28 December 1948 (contd.) - Ronald Francis Lodge (Acting) 30 December 1948 – 16 February 1949

9 16 February 1949 – 27 May 1950

10 27 May 1950 – 15 May 1956

11 Saiyid Fazal Ali 15 May 1956 – 22 August 1959

12 Chandreswar Prasad Sinha 23 August 1959 – 14 October 1959 13 General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh 14 October 1959 – 12 November 1960

14 Vishnu Sahay 12 November 1960 – 13 January 1961 (13) General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh 13 January 1961 – 7 September 1962

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(14) Vishnu Sahay 7 September 1962 – 17 April 1968

15 17 April 1968 – 19 September 1973 Justice P. K. Goswami - 8 December 1970 – 4 January 1971 (acting for Nehru)

16 19 September 1973 – 10 August 1981

17 Prakash Mehrotra 10 August 1981 – 28 March 1984 18 Justice Tribeni Sahai Misra 28 March 1984 – 15 April 1984

19 Bhishma Narain Singh 15 April 1984 – 10 May 1989

20 Harideo Joshi 10 May 1989 – 21 July 1989 21 Justice Anisetti Raghuvir 21 July 1989 – 2 May 1990 22 Justice Devi Das Thakur 2 May 1990 – 17 March 1991

23 Loknath Mishra 17 March 1991 – 1 September 1997

24 Lt. General (Retired) 1 September 1997 – 21 April 2003

25 Arvind Dave 21 April 2003 – 5 June 2003

26 Lt. General (Retired) Ajai Singh 5 June 2003 – 4 July 2008

27 Shiv Charan Mathur 4 July 2008 – 25 June 2009

28 K Sankaranarayanan 26 June 2009 – 27 July 2009

29 Syed Sibtey Razi 27 July 2009 – 10 November 2009

30 11 November 2009 – 11 December 2014 [2] 31 Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya December 2014 – 17 August 2016 [3] 32 22 August 2016 – 10 October 2017

33 10 October 2017 – Incumbent

List of governors of Governors of Bihar # Name Entered office Left office Before Independence

1 Sir James David Sifton 1 April 1936 10 March 1937

2 Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett 11 March 1937 15 May 1938 - Sir Thomas Alexander Stewart (acting) 15 May 1938 16 September 1938

(2) Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett 17 September 1938 5 August 1939

3 Sir Thomas Alexander Stewart 6 August 1939 2 February 1943

4 Sir Thomas George Rutherford 3 February 1943 6 September 1943 - Sir (acting) 7 September 1943 23 April 1944

(4) Sir Thomas George Rutherford 24 April 1944 12 May 1946

5 Sir Hugh Dow 13 May 1946 14 August 1947 After Independence

1 Jairamdas Daulatram 15 August 1947 11 January 1948

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2 Madhav Shrihari Aney 12 January 1948 14 June 1952

3 R. R. Diwakar 15 June 1952 5 July 1957

4 Zakir Hussain 6 July 1957 11 May 1962

5 M. A. S. Ayyangar 12 May 1962 6 December 1967

6 7 December 1967 20 January 1971 - Justice U.N. Sinha (acting) 21 January 1971 31 January 1971

7 Dev Kant Baruah 1 February 1971 4 February 1973

8 Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare 4 February 1973 15 June 1976

9 Jagannath Kaushal 16 June 1976 31 January 1979 - Justice K.B.N. Singh (acting) 31 January 1979 19 September 1979

10 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai 20 September 1979 15 March 1985

11 P. Venkatasubbaiah 15 March 1985 25 February 1988

12 Singh 26 February 1988 24 January 1989 - Justice Dipak Kumar Sen (acting) 24 January 1989 28 January 1989

13 R.D. Pradhan 29 January 1989 2 February 1989

14 3 March 1989 2 February 1990 - Justice G.G. Sohoni (acting) 2 February 1990 16 February 1990

15 Mohammad Saleem 16 February 1990 13 February 1991 - B. Satya Narayan Reddy (acting) 14 February 1991 18 March 1991

16 19 March 1991 13 August 1993

(10) Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai 14 August 1993 26 April 1998

17 27 April 1998 15 March 1999 - Justice B.M. Lall (acting) 15 March 1999 5 October 1999 — (additional charge) 6 October 1999 22 November 1999

18 V. C. Pande 23 November 1999 12 June 2003

19 M R Jois 12 June 2003 31 October 2004 - Ved Prakash Marwah (acting) 1 November 2004 4 November 2004

20 5 November 2004 29 January 2006

21 31 January 2006 21 June 2006

22 R. S. Gavai 22 June 2006 9 July 2008

23 R. L. Bhatia 10 July 2008 28 June 2009

24 29 June 2009 21 March 2013

25 D. Y. 22 March 2013 26 November 2014 — (Addl. charge) 27 November 2014 15 August 2015 [3] 26 16 August 2015 20 June 2017 — Keshari Nath Tripathi (Addl. charge) 20 June 2017[4] 29 September 2017 [5] 27 30 September 2017 23 August 2018 [6] 28 23 August 2018 28 July 2019

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29 Fagu Chauhan 29 July 2019 Incumbent

List of governors of Governors of Chhattisgarh # Name Took Office Left Office

1 D. N. Sahay 1 November 2000 1 June 2003

2 Krishna Mohan Seth 2 June 2003 25 January 2007

3 E. S. L. Narasimhan 25 January 2007 23 January 2010

4 23 January 2010 19 June 2014 — (Acting) 19 June 2014 14 July 2014 [1] 5 18 July 2014 14 August 2018 — (Additional charge) 15 August 2018 28 July 2019

6 29 July 2019 till date

List of governors of Lieutenant Governors of Goa, Daman and Diu Goa, along with Daman and Diu was a in the Indian Union till 30 May 1987. As such it had a Lieutenant Governor till that time.[2] # Name Took Office Left Office 1 Maj Gen K. P. Candeth (Military Governor) 19 December 1961 6 June 1962

2 T. Sivasankar 7 June 1962 1 September 1963

3 M. R. Sachdev 2 September 1963 8 December 1964

4 Hari Sharma 12 December 1964 23 February 1965

5 K. R. Damle 24 February 1965 17 April 1967

6 Nakul Sen 18 April 1967 15 November 1972

7 S. K. Banerji 16 November 1972 15 November 1977

8 P. S. Gill 16 November 1977 30 March 1981

9 31 March 1981 29 August 1982

10 I H Latif 30 August 1982 23 February 1983

11 K. T. Satarawala 24 February 1983 3 July 1984

12 I H Latif 4 July 1984 23 September 1984

13 Gopal Singh 24 September 1984 29 May 1987 Governors after 1987 Goa became a full-fledged state of the Indian Union in 1987 and since then has had the following governors:[2] # Name Took Office Left Office

1 Gopal Singh 30 May 1987 17 July 1989

2 18 July 1989 17 March 1991

3 Bhanu Prakash Singh 18 March 1991 3 April 1994

4 B. Rachaiah 4 April 1994 3 August 1994

5 Gopala Ramanujam 4 August 1994 15 June 1995

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6 16 June 1995 18 July 1996

7 P.C. Alexander 19 July 1996 15 January 1998

8 T. R. Satish Chandran 16 January 1998 18 April 1998

9 J. F. R. Jacob 19 April 1998 26 November 1999

10 Mohammed Fazal 26 November 1999 25 October 2002

11 26 October 2002 2 July 2004 - Mohammed Fazal (acting) 3 July 2004 16 July 2004

12 S. C. Jamir 17 July 2004 21 July 2008

13 Shivinder Singh Sidhu 22 July 2008 26 August 2011

14 Kateekal Sankaranarayanan 27 August 2011 3 May 2012

15 Bharat Vir Wanchoo 4 May 2012 4 July 2014

16 12 July 2014 5 August 2014 - (additional charge) 6 August 2014 25 August 2014

17 26 August 2014 Present

List of governors of # Name Took Office Left Office

1 1 May 1960 1 Aug 1965

2 Nityanand Kanungo 1 Aug 1965 7 Dec 1967 - P.N. Bhagwati (Acting) 7 Dec 1967 26 Dec 1967

3 Shriman Narayan 26 Dec 1967 17 Mar 1973 - P.N. Bhagwati (Acting) 17 Mar 1973 4 Apr 1973

4 Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham 4 Apr 1973 14 Aug 1978

5 Sharda Mukherjee 14 Aug 1978 6 Aug 1983

6 Kizhekethil Mathew Chandy 6 Aug 1983 26 Apr 1984

7 Braj Kumar Nehru 26 Apr 1984 26 Feb 1986

8 Ram Krishna Trivedi 26 Feb 1986 2 May 1990

9 Mahipal Shastri 2 May 1990 21 Dec 1990

10 21 Dec 1990 1 Jul 1995

11 1 Jul 1995 1 Mar 1996

12 Krishna Pal Singh 1 Mar 1996 25 Apr 1998

13 Anshuman Singh 25 Apr 1998 16 Jan 1999 - K.G. Balakrishnan[1] (Acting) 16 Jan 1999 18 Mar 1999

14 Sunder Singh Bhandari 18 Mar 1999 7 May 2003

15 7 May 2003 2 Jul 2004

16 2 Jul 2004 24 Jul 2004

17 Nawal Kishore Sharma 24 Jul 2004 24 Jul 2009 - S. C. Jamir(Additional Charge) [2] 30 Jul 2009 26 Nov 2009

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18 Kamala Beniwal 27 Nov 2009 6 July 2014 - Margaret Alva (Additional Charge) 7 July 2014 15 July 2014 [3] 19 Om Prakash Kohli 16 July 2014 21 July 2019

20 Acharya Dev Vrat 22 July 2019 Incumbent

Governors of # Name Took office Left office

1 1 November 1966 14 September 1967

2 Birendra Narayan Chakraborty 15 September 1967 26 March 1976

3 27 March 1976 13 August 1976

4 Jaisukh Lal Hathi 14 August 1976 23 September 1977

5 24 September 1977 9 December 1979

6 Surjit Singh Sandhawalia 10 December 1979 27

7 Ganpatrao Devji Tapase 28 February 1980 13 June 1984

8 Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney 14 June 1984 21 February 1988

9 22 February 1988 6 February 1990

10 7 February 1990 13 June 1995

11 Mahabir Prasad 14 June 1995 18 June 2000

12 19 June 2000 1 July 2004 - Om Prakash Verma (Addl. charge) 2 July 2004 7 July 2004

13 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai 7 July 2004 27 July 2009

14 Jagannath Pahadia 27 July 2009 26 July 2014

15 27 July 2014 25 August 2018 25 August 2018[1]

16

List of governors of Lieutenant Governors of Himachal Pradesh # Name Took Office Left Office 1 Maj. Gen. K. S. Himmatsinhji (retd.) 1 March 1952 31 December 1954 2 Raja Bajrang Bahadur Singh of Bhadri 1 January 1955 13 August 1963 3 Sh. Bhagawan Sahay 14 August 1963 25 February 1966 4 Sh. V. Viswanathan, ICS (retd.) 26 February 1966 6 May 1967 5 Sh. Om Parkash 7 May 1967 15 May 1967 6 Lt. Gen. K. Bhadur Singh (retd.) 16 May 1967 24 January 1971 Governors of Himachal Pradesh # Name Took Office Left Office 1 Sh. S. Chakravarti 25 January 1971 16 February 1977

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2 Sh. Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan 17 February 1977 25 August 1981 3 Sh. A. K. Banerjee 26 August 1981 15 April 1983 4 Sh. Hokishe Sema 16 April 1983 7 March 1986 - Justice Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai (Addl. charge) 8 March 1986 16 April 1986 5 Vice Admiral R. K. S. Ghandhi 17 April 1986 15 February 1990 - Sh. S. M. H. Burney (Addl. Charge)[1] 2 December 1987 10 January 1988 - Sh. H. A. Brari (Addl. Charge)[1] 20 December 1989 12 January 1990 6 Sh. B. Rachaiah 16 February 1990 19 December 1990 7 Sh. 20 December 1990 29 January 1993 - Sh. Surendra Nath (Addl. Charge) 30 January 1993 10 December 1993 8 Sh. 11 February 1993 29 June 1993 9 Sh. Gulsher Ahmad 30 June 1993 26 November 1993 - Sh. Surendra Nath (Addl. Charge) 27 November 1993 9 July 1994 - Justice Viswanathan Ratnam (Addl. Charge) 10 July 1994 30 July 1994 10 Sh. Sudhakarrao Naik 30 July 1994 17 September 1995 - Sh. Mahabir Prasad (Addl. Charge) 18 September 1995 16 November 1995 11 Smt. Sheila Kaul 17 November 1995 22 April 1996 - Sh. Mahabir Prasad (Addl. Charge) 23 April 1996 25 July 1997 12 Smt. V. S. Ramadevi 26 July 1997 1 December 1999 13 Sh. 2 December 1999 23 November 2000 14 Sh. Suraj Bhan 23 November 2000 7 May 2003 15 Justice (Retd) Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje 8 May 2003 19 July 2008

16 19 July 2008 24 January 2010

17 25 January 2010 24 January 2015 - (Addl. Charge) 28 January 2015 12 August 2015

18 Acharya Dev Vrat 12 August 2015 21 July 2019

19 22 July 2019 Incumbent

List of governors of Jammu and # Name Took Office Left Office

1 Singh 30 Mar 1965 15 May 1967

2 Bhagwan Sahay 15 May 1967 3 Jul 1973

3 3 Jul 1973 22 Feb 1981

4 Braj Kumar Nehru 22 Feb 1981 26 Apr 1984

5 Jagmohan 26 Apr 1984 Jul 1989

6 K. V. Krishna Rao Jul 1989 19 Jan 1990

7 Jagmohan 19 Jan 1990 26 May 1990

8 26 May 1990 12 Mar 1993

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9 K. V. Krishna Rao 12 Mar 1993 2 May 1998

10 Girish Chandra Saxena 2 May 1998 4 Jun 2003

11 S.K. Sinha 4 Jun 2003 25 Jun 2008

12 25 Jun 2008 23 August 2018 [2] 13 Satya Pal Malik 23 August 2018 Incumbent

Governors of # Name Took Office Left Office

1 Prabhat Kumar 15 November 2000 3 February 2002(it isn't boi) — V.C Pande (Additional Charge) 4 February 2002 14 July 2002

2 M. 15 July 2002 11 June 2003

3 12 June 2003 9 December 2004

4 Syed Sibtey Razi 10 December 2004 25 July 2009

5 Kateekal Sankaranarayanan 26 July 2009 21 January 2010

6 M.O. Hasan Farook Maricar 22 January 2010 3 September 2011 [1] 7 4 September 2011 17 May 2015 [2] 8 18 May 2015 incumbent

List of governors of Governors of Mysore and Karnataka

N Name Term of office Selected former office(s) o

1 Jayachamarajendra 4 May 1 November of Mysore, of Mysore

Wadiyar 1963 1957

4 May 2 April

2 S. M. Shrinagesh Chief of the Army Staff 1963 1965

2 April 13 May

3 V. V. Giri 1965 1967

Gopal Swarup 13 May 30 August 4 Fourth Vice-

Pathak 1967 1969

Padma 23 October 1 February 5 Vibhushan Sir Governor of Punjab, Haryana, and Bengal 1970 1972 Dharma Vira

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10 Chief Minister 1 February Chief Minister of , Governor of Andhra 6 January Mohanlal Sukhadia 1972 Pradesh and 1975

Uma Shankar 10 January 2 August Governor of Bengal and the Minister of Home 7

Dikshit 1975 1977 Affairs

First and the only member of the Imperial Civil Govind Narain 2 August 15 April 8 Service to have been appointed and served as ICS 1977 1982 Governor of Karnataka

25 Ashoknath Banerji 16 April First member of the Indian Administrative 9 February IAS 1982 Service to have served in this office 1987

26 Pendekanti 5 February Governor of Bihar, Minister of 10 February

Venkatasubbaiah 1990 Home and Parliamentary Affairs 1987

Bhanu Pratap 8 May 6 January

11 Member of Parliament

Singh 1990 1992

2 Khurshed Alam 6 January 12 December Member of Parliament, Governor of Goa

Khan 1992 1999 Chief Election Commissioner of India, Secretary 2 Commissioner 20 August General of , Governor of Himachal 13 December V. S. Ramadevi 2002 Pradesh, the first and only female governor of 1999 Karnataka Auditor General 21 August 20 August

14 Comptroller and Auditor General of India T. N. Chaturvedi 2002 2007 IAS

21 August 24 June Governor of , Andhra Pradesh,

15 Rameshwar Thakur 2007 2009 and

24 June 29 June Union Minister of Law and Justice, Governor

16 Hans Raj Bhardwaj 2009 2014 of

30 June 31 August Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Governor

17 2014 2014 of Tamil Nadu

1 Vajubhai Rudabhai 18 September Incumbent Speaker of Gujarat Vidhan Sabha

Vala 2014

List of governors of Kerala

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Governors of Kerala # Name Took Office Left Office

1 22 November 1956 1 July 1960

2 V. V. Giri 1 July 1960 2 April 1965

3 Ajith Prasad Jain 2 April 1965 6 February 1966

4 Bhagwan Sahay 6 February 1966 15 May 1967

5 V. Viswanathan 15 May 1967 1 April 1973

6 N. N. Wanchoo 1 April 1973 10 October 1977

7 Jothi Venkatachalam 14 October 1977 27 October 1982

8 P. Ramachandran 27 October 1982 23 February 1988

9 Ram Dulari Sinha 23 February 1988 12 February 1990

10 Swaroop Singh 12 February 1990 20 December 1990

11 B. Rachaiah 20 December 1990 9 November 1995

12 P. Shiv Shankar 12 November 1995 1 May 1996

13 Khurshid Alam Khan 5 May 1996 25 January 1997

14 Sukhdev Singh Kang 25 January 1997 18 April 2002

15 18 April 2002 23 February 2004 — T. N. Chaturvedi (Additional charge after the death of Sikander Bakht) 25 February 2004 23 June 2004

16 R. L. Bhatia 23 June 2004 10 July 2008

17 R. S. Gavai 11 July 2008 7 September 2011

18 M. O. H. Farook 8 September 2011 26 January 2012 — Hansraj Bhardwaj (additional charge after the death of M.O.H Farook) 26 January 2012 22 March 2013

19 Nikhil Kumar 23 March 2013 5 March 2014

20 5 March 2014 26 August 2014

21 P Sathasivam 5 September 2014 30 August 2019

List of governors of Madhya Pradesh Governors of Madhya Pradesh # Name Took Office Left Office 1 Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya 1 November 1956 13 June 1957

2 Hari Vinayak Pataskar 14 June 1957 10 February 1965

3 K. Chengalaraya Reddy 11 February 1965 2 February 1966 - P. V. Dixit (Acting) 2 February 1966 9 February 1966

4 K. Chengalaraya Reddy 10 February 1966 7 March 1971

5 8 March 1971 13 October 1977

6 N. N. Wanchu 14 October 1977 16 August 1978

7 C. M. Poonacha 17 August 1978 29 April 1980

8 B. D. Sharma 30 April 1980 25 May 1981

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- G. P. Singh (Acting) 26 May 1981 9 July 1981

9 B. D. Sharma 10 July 1981 20 September 1983 - G. P. Singh (Acting) 21 September 1983 7 October 1983

10 B. D. Sharma 8 October 1983 14 May 1984

11 Kizhekethil Chandy 15 May 1984 30 November 1987 - Narayan Dutta Ojha (Acting) 1 December 1987 29 December 1987

12 Kizhekethil Chandy 30 December 1987 30 March 1989

13 31 March 1989 5 February 1990

14 M. A. Khan 6 February 1990 23 June 1993

15 Mohammad Shafi Qureshi 24 June 1993 21 April 1998

16 22 April 1998 6 May 2003

17 7 May 2003 1 May 2004 - Lt. Gen. K. M. Seth (Acting) 2 May 2004 29 June 2004

18 Balram Jakhar 30 June 2004 29 June 2009 [1] 19 Rameshwar Thakur 30 June 2009 7 September 2011 [1] 20 Ram Naresh Yadav 8 September 2011 7 September 2016 — Om Prakash Kohli (Additional charge) 8 September 2016 [2] January 23, 2018 [3] 21 Anandiben Patel January 23, 2018 July 29, 2019

22 Lalji Tandon July 29, 2019 Incumbent

LIST OF GOVERNORS IN Governors of Maharashtra This is a list of governors of the erstwhile and Maharashtra:

S.No. Name Took office Left office Bombay State (Before Independence) ** John Colville, PC, GCIE 24 March 1943 5 January 1948 Bombay State (After Independence)

1 Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, CIE 6 January 1948 30 May 1952

2 Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, KCSI, KBE, CIE 30 May 1952 5 December 1954 3 Dr 2 March 1955 14 October 1956 Maharashtra

4 Sri Prakasa 10 December 1956 16 April 1962 5 Dr P. Subbarayan 17 April 1962 6 October 1962

6 28 November 1962 18 October 1964 7 Dr P V Cherian 14 November 1964 8 November 1969

8 26 February 1970 11 December 1976

9 Sri Sadiq Ali 30 April 1977 3 November 1980

10 O P Mehra 3 November 1980 5 March 1982

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11 I H Latif 6 March 1982 16 April 1985

12 Kona Prabhakara Rao 31 May 1985 2 April 1986 13 Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma 3 April 1986 2 September 1987

14 20 February 1988 18 January 1990 15 Dr. C Subramaniam 15 February 1990 9 January 1993 16 Dr. P.C. Alexander 12 January 1993 13 July 2002

17 Mohammed Fazal 10 October 2002 5 December 2004

18 S.M. Krishna 12 December 2004 5 March 2008

19 S.C. Jamir 9 March 2008 22 January 2010

20 Kateekal Sankaranarayanan 22 January 2010 24 August 2014

21 Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao 30 August 2014 Incumbent

List of governors of

# Name Took Office Left Office 20 September

1 B. K. Nehru 21 January 1972 1973

2 L.P. Singh 21 September 1973 11 August 1981

3 S. M. H. Burney 18 August 1981 11 June 1984

4 K. V. Krishna Rao 2 June 1984 7 July 1989

5 Chintamani Panigrahi 10 July 1989 19 March 1993

6 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 20 March 1993 30 August 1993 22 December 7 V.K. Nayar 31 August 1993 1994

8 O.N. Shrivastava 23 December 1994 11 February 1999

9 Ved Marwah 2 December 1999 12 June 2003

10 Arvind Dave 13 June 2003 5 August 2004

11 Shivinder Singh Sidhu 6 August 2004 22 July 2008 [1] 12 Gurbachan Jagat 23 July 2008 22 July 2013

[2] 31 December 13 Ashwani Kumar 23 July 2013 2013 [3] 14 Vinod Duggal 31 December 2013 28 August 2014

— K. K. Paul (Addl Charge) 16 September 2014 15 May 2015 27 September

15 Syed Ahmed 16 May 2015 2015 V. Shanmuganathan (Addl. — 30 September 2015 17 August 2016 charge) [4] 16 Najma A. Heptulla [5] 21 August 2016 26 June 2019 Padmanabha Acharya (Addl. 27 June 2019 (Assumed charge in Heptulla's — 23 July 2019 charge) absence)[6]

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(16) Najma A. Heptulla 24 July 2019 Incumbent

List of governors of

This is a list of the Governors of Meghalaya state in northeastern India. Meghalaya became an autonomous state within Assam on 1 April 1970 and a separate state on 21 January 1972.[1] # Name Took Office Left Office

1 Braj Kumar Nehru 1 April 1970 18 September 1973

2 Lallan Prasad Singh 19 September 1973 10 August 1981

3 Prakash Mehrotra 11 August 1981 28 March 1984

4 Tribeni Sahai Misra 29 March 1984 15 April 1984

5 Bhishma Narain Singh 16 April 1984 10 May 1989

6 Harideo Joshi 11 May 1989 26 July 1989

7 Abubakar Abdul Rahim 27 July 1989 8 May 1990

8 Madhukar Dighe 9 May 1990 18 June 1995

9 M. M. Jacob 19 June 1995 11 April 2007

10 Banwari Lal Joshi 12 April 2007 28 October 2007

11 Shivinder Singh Sidhu 29 October 2007 30 June 2008

12 Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary 1 July 2008 30 June 2013

13 1 July 2013 6 January 2015

14 Keshari Nath Tripathi 6 January 2015 19 May 2015

15 V. Shanmuganathan 20 May 2015 27 January 2017 (Resigned)

[5] 27 January 2017 16 Banwarilal Purohit 5 October 2017 (Assumed full charge from 30 September 2017)

17 5 October 2017 25 August 2018 25 August 2018

18 Tathagata Roy

List of governors of Before statehood

S.J.Das was the chief commissioner of Mizoram from 21 January 1972 to 23 April 1972. He was followed by these Lieutenant Governors:

# Namme Took Office Left Office 1 S.P. Mukherjee 24 April 1972 12 June 1974 2 S.K. Chibber 13 June 1974 26 September 1977 3 N.P. Mathur 27 September 1977 15 April 1981

4 S.N. Kohli 16 April 1981 9 August 1983 5 H.S. Dubey 10 August 1983 10 December 1986

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6 Hiteswar 11 December 1986 19 February 1987

Governors of Mizoram

# Name Took Office Left Office

1 20 February 1987 30 April 1989 - General K. V. Krishna Rao (additional charge) 1 May 1989 20 July 1989

2 Capt W.A. Sangma 21 July 1989 7 February 1990

3 8 February 1990 9 February 1993

4 P.R.Kyndiah 10 February 1993 28 January 1998 5 Dr A.P.Mukherjee 29 January 1998 1 May 1998

6 A. Padmanabhan 2 May 1998 30 November 2000 - Ved Marwah (additional charge) 1 December 2000 17 May 2001

7 Amolak Rattan Kohli 18 May 2001 24 July 2006 8 Lt. Gen (Retd) M.M.Lakhera 25 July 2006 2 September 2011

9 2 September 2011 6 July 2014

10 6 July 2014 6 August 2014 - (additional charge) 8 August 2014 16 September 2014 11 K. K. Paul (Addl with Meghalaya) [1] 16 September 2014 8 January 2015 12 [2] 9 January 2015 28 March 2015 - Keshari Nath Tripathi (additional charge) 4 April 2015 25 May 2015 13 Lt General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma 26 May 2015 28 May 2018

14 29 May 2018 8 March 2019 - Jagdish Mukhi (additional charge) 9 March 2019 Incumbent

List of governors of

# Name Took Office Left Office 1 Vishnu Sahay, ICS (Retd.) 1 December 1963 16 April 1968 2 B.K. Nehru, ICS (Retd.) 17 April 1968 18 September 1973 3 L.P. Singh, ICS (Retd.) 19 September 1973 9 August 1981 4 S. M. H. Burney, IAS (Retd.) 10 August 1981 12 June 1984 5 Gen.(Retd.) K. V. Krishna Rao, PVSM. 13 June 1984 19 July 1989 6 Dr. Gopal Singh 20 July 1989 3 May 1990 7 Dr. M. M. Thomas 9 May 1990 12 April 1992

8 Loknath Mishra 13 April 1992 1 October 1993 9 Lt. Gen.(Retd.)V. K. Nayyar PVSM, SM 2 October 1993 4 August 1994 10 O. N. Shrivastava, IPS (Retd) 5 August 1994 11 November 1996 11 Om Prakash Sharma, IPS (Retd.) 12 November 1996 27 January 2002

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12 Shyamal Datta, IPS (Retd.) 28 January 2002 2 February 2007 13 K. Wilson 3 February 2007 4 February 2007

14 K. Sankaranarayanan 4 February 2007 28 July 2009 15 Gurbachan Jagat, IPS (Retd.) 28 July 2009 14 Oct 2009 16 Nikhil Kumar, IPS (Retd.) 15 Oct 2009 20 March 2013

17 Ashwani Kumar 21 March 2013 27 June 2014 - Krishan Kant Paul (Additional Charge)[1] 2 July 2014 19 July 2014 [2] 18 Padmanabha Acharya 19 July 2014 31 July 2019 19 R. N. Ravi 1 August 2019 Incumbent

List of governors of Nagaland

# Name Took Office Left Office 1 Vishnu Sahay, ICS (Retd.) 1 December 1963 16 April 1968 2 B.K. Nehru, ICS (Retd.) 17 April 1968 18 September 1973 3 L.P. Singh, ICS (Retd.) 19 September 1973 9 August 1981 4 S. M. H. Burney, IAS (Retd.) 10 August 1981 12 June 1984 5 Gen.(Retd.) K. V. Krishna Rao, PVSM. 13 June 1984 19 July 1989 6 Dr. Gopal Singh 20 July 1989 3 May 1990 7 Dr. M. M. Thomas 9 May 1990 12 April 1992

8 Loknath Mishra 13 April 1992 1 October 1993 9 Lt. Gen.(Retd.)V. K. Nayyar PVSM, SM 2 October 1993 4 August 1994 10 O. N. Shrivastava, IPS (Retd) 5 August 1994 11 November 1996 11 Om Prakash Sharma, IPS (Retd.) 12 November 1996 27 January 2002 12 Shyamal Datta, IPS (Retd.) 28 January 2002 2 February 2007 13 K. Wilson 3 February 2007 4 February 2007

14 K. Sankaranarayanan 4 February 2007 28 July 2009 15 Gurbachan Jagat, IPS (Retd.) 28 July 2009 14 Oct 2009 16 Nikhil Kumar, IPS (Retd.) 15 Oct 2009 20 March 2013

17 Ashwani Kumar 21 March 2013 27 June 2014 - Krishan Kant Paul (Additional Charge)[1] 2 July 2014 19 July 2014 [2] 18 Padmanabha Acharya 19 July 2014 31 July 2019 19 R. N. Ravi 1 August 2019 Incumbent

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# Name Took Office Left Office British India (Before 1947)

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1 Sir John Austen Hubback 1 April 1936 11 August 1938 - George Townsend Boag (Acting) 11 August 1938 7 December 1938

2 Sir John Austen Hubback 8 December 1938 31 March 1941

3 Howthorne Lewis 1 April 1941 31 March 1946

4 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi 1 April 1946 14 August 1947 Independent India (After 1947)

5 15 August 1947 20 June 1948

6 21 June 1948 5 May 1951 - V. P. Menon (Acting) 6 May 1951 17 July 1951 (6) Asaf Ali 18 July 1951 6 June 1952

7 Fazal Ali 7 June 1952 9 February 1954

8 P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja 10 February 1954 11 September 1956

9 Bhim Sen Sachar 12 September 1956 31 July 1957

10 Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar 31 July 1957 15 September 1962

11 Ajudhia Nath Khosla 16 September 1962 5 August 1966 - Khaleell Ahommed (Acting) 5 August 1966 11 September 1966 (11) Ajudhia Nath Khosla 12 September 1966 30 January 1968

12 Shaukatullah Shah Ansari 31 January 1968 20 September 1971 - Sardar Jojendra Singh (Acting) 20 September 1971 30 June 1972

13 Gati Krushna Misra 1 July 1972 8 November 1972

14 Basappa Danappa Jatti 8 November 1972 20 August 1974 (13) Gati Krushna Misra 21 August 1974 25 October 1974

15 Akbar Ali Khan 25 October 1974 17 April 1976 - Shiva Narayin Sankar (Acting) 17 April 1976 7 February 1977

16 Harcharan Singh Brar 7 February 1977 22 September 1977

17 Bhagwat Dayal Sharma 23 September 1977 30 April 1980

18 Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 30 April 1980 30 September 1980 - S. K. Ray (Acting) 1 October 1980 3 November 1980 (18) Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 4 November 1980 24 June 1982 - (Acting) 25 June 1982 31 August 1982

(18) Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha 1 September 1982 17 August 1983

19 17 August 1983 20 November 1988

20 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 20 November 1988 6 February 1990

21 Yagya Dutt Sharma 7 February 1990 1 February 1993 (20) Saiyid Nurul Hasan 1 February 1993 31 May 1993

22 B. Satya Narayan Reddy 1 June 1993 17 June 1995

23 Gopala Ramanujam 18 June 1995 30 January 1997

24 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 31 January 1997 12 February 1997

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(23) Gopala Ramanujam 13 February 1997 13 December 1997 (24) K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 13 December 1997 27 April 1998

25 C. Rangarajan 27 April 1998 14 November 1999

26 M. M. Rajendran 15 November 1999 17 November 2004

27 Rameshwar Thakur 18 November 2004 21 August 2007

28 Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare 21 August 2007 9 March 2013

29 S.C. Jamir 21 March 2013 20 March 2018 - Satya Pal Malik (Additional Charge) 21 March 2018 28 May 2018

30 Prof. 29 May 2018 Incumbent

List of governors of Punjab Rajpramukh (Governor) of PEPSU (1948-1956)

Uparajpramukh Rajpramukh Tenure [1] (Lieutenant Portrait Appointed by (Governor) Governor)

15 1 Yadavindra 8 years, C.

July November Jagatjit Singh

Singh 109 days Rajagopalachari 1948 1956

Governors of Punjab

S. Nominated by Name Tenure [2] No (President) 15 August L. 5 May 1952 Chandulal Madhavlal 1947 5 years, Mountbatten (GGI) 1 Trivedi 11 March 208 days 5 May 1952 1953 Chandeshwar 15 11 March 5 years, 2 Prasad Narayan September

1953 188 days

Singh 1958 15 Narahar Vishnu 1 October 4 years, 3 September

Gadgil 1962 16 days 1958 Pattom A. Thanu 1 October 1 year, 4 4 May 1964

Pillai 1962 216 days 1 Hafiz Mohammad 1 year, 5 4 May 1964 September

Ibrahim 120 days 1965

S. Radhakrishnan 1 26 June

6 Sardar September 298 days 1966 1965 27 June continued (1

7 Dharma Vira 309 days 1966 November

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continued (1

7 Dharma Vira November 1 June 1967

1966) 16 October - Mehar Singh (Acting) 1 June 1967 137 days 1967

Zakir Husain 16 October 21 May 5 years,

8 D. C. Pavate 1967 1973 217 days 1 Mahendra Mohan 21 May 4 years,

9 September V. V. Giri

Choudhry 1973 103 days 1977 1 24 Ranjit Singh Narula - September September 23 days (Acting) 1977 1977 24 26 August 3 years,

10 Jaisukh Lal Hathi September 1981 336 days Neelam Sanjiva 1977 Reddy Aminuddin Ahmad 26 August 21 April 11 238 days

Khan 1981 1982 21 April 7 February

12 292 days 1982 1983 S. S. 7 February 21 February - 14 days Sandhawalia (Acting) 1983 1983 Anant Prasad 21 February 10 October 13 231 days

Sharma 1983 1983 10 October

14 Bhairab Dutt Pande 3 July 1984 267 days 1983 Kershasp 14 March 15 Tehmurasp 3 July 1984 254 days 1985

Satarawala 14 14 March

16 Arjun Singh November 245 days 1985 1985 14 26 Hokishe Sema (Addl. - November November 12 days charge) 1985 1985 26 Shankar Dayal 17 November 2 April 1986 127 days

Sharma 1985 Siddhartha Shankar 8 December 3 years, 18 2 April 1986

Ray 1989 250 days 8 December 14 June

19 Nirmal Mukarji 188 days 1989 1990

18 R. Venkataraman 14 June

20 Virendra Verma December 187 days 1990 1990

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18 Om Prakash 7 August 21 December 232 days

Malhotra 1991 1990 7 August 2 years,

22 Surendra Nath 9 July 1994 1991 336 days 18 Sudhakar Panditrao 10 July - September 70 days Kurdukar (Acting) 1994 1994 Shankar Dayal

18 27 Sharma 5 years,

23 B. K. N. Chhibber September November 70 days 1994 1999 27 3 years,

24 J. F. R. Jacob November 8 May 2003 K. R. Narayanan 162 days 1999 3 November 1 year,

25 Om Prakash Verma 8 May 2003 2004 179 days Akhlaqur Rahman 16 3 November - Kidwai (Addl. November 13 days A. P. J. Abdul 2004

charge) 2004 Kalam 16 Sunith Francis 22 January 5 years, 26 November

Rodrigues 2010 67 days 2004 22 January 22 January 5 years,

27 2010 2015 0 days Kaptan Singh 22 January 22 August 1 year, - Solanki (Addl. 2015 2016 213 days charge) 22 August 2 years,

28 V. P. Singh Badnore Incumbent 2016 362 days

List of governors of Rajasthan

# Name Took office Left office 1 Maharaj Man Singh II (Rajpramukh)[1][4] 30 March 1949 31 October 1956

2 Gurumukh Nihal Singh 1 November 1956 16 April 1962

3 16 April 1962 16 April 1967

4 Sardar Hukam Singh 16 April 1967 1 July 1972

5 Sardar Jogendra Singh 1 July 1972 15 February 1977 - Vedpal Tyagi (acting) 15 February 1977 11 May 1977

6 Raghukul Tilak 17 May 1977 8 August 1981 - K. D. Sharma (acting) 8 August 1981 6 March 1982

7 6 March 1982 4 January 1985

8 20 November 1985 15 October 1987

9 Sukhdev Prasad 20 February 1988 3 February 1990

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- Milap Chand Jain (acting) 3 February 1990 14 February 1990

10 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya 14 February 1990 26 August 1991 - Sarup Singh (acting) 26 August 1991 5 February 1992

11 Marri Chenna Reddy 5 February 1992 31 May 1993 - Dhanik Lal Mandal (additional charge) 31 May 1993 30 June 1993

12 Bali Ram Bhagat 30 June 1993 1 May 1998

13 1 May 1998 24 May 1998 - Navrang Lal Tibrewal (acting) 25 May 1998 16 January 1999

14 Anshuman Singh 16 January 1999 14 May 2003

15 Nirmal Chandra Jain 14 May 2003 22 September 2003 - Kailashpati Mishra (additional charge) 22 September 2003 14 January 2004

16 14 January 2004 1 November 2004 - T. V. Rajeswar (additional charge) 1 November 2004 8 November 2004

17 Pratibha Patil 8 November 2004 21 June 2007 - Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge) 21 June 2007 6 September 2007

18 S. K. Singh 6 September 2007 1 December 2009 - Prabha Rau (additional charge)[5] 2 December 2009 24 January 2010 [6] 19 Prabha Rau 25 January 2010 26 April 2010 - Shivraj Patil (additional charge) 26 April 2010 12 May 2012

20 Margaret Alva 12 May 2012 7 August 2014 - (additional charge) 8 August 2014 3 September 2014

21 Kalyan Singh 4 September 2014 Incumbent

List of governors of

# Name Took Office Left Office 1 B.B. Lal 18 May 1975 9 January 1981

2 Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan 10 January 1981 17 June 1984

3 Kona Prabhakar Rao 18 June 1984 30 May 1985 - Bhishma Narain Singh (additional charge) 31 May 1985 20 November 1985

4 T.V. Rajeswar 21 November 1985 1 March 1989

5 S.K. Bhatnagar 2 March 1989 7 February 1990

6 Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani 8 February 1990 20 September 1994

7 P. Shiv Shankar 21 September 1994 11 November 1995 - K.V. Raghunatha Reddy (additional charge) 12 November 1995 9 February 1996

8 Chaudhary Randhir Singh 10 February 1996 17 May 2001

9 Kidar Nath Sahani 18 May 2001 25 October 2002

10 V. Rama Rao 26 October 2002 12 July 2006 - R.S. Gavai (acting) 13 July 2006 12 August 2006

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11 V. Rama Rao 13 August 2006 25 October 2007

12 25 October 2007 8 July 2008

13 9 July 2008 30 June 2013 [1] 14 Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil 1 July 2013 26 August 2018 [2] 15 Ganga Prasad 26 August 2018 Incumbent

List of governors of Tamil Nadu

Madras Presidency and Headquartered in Fort St. George, was a province of British India. It comprised present day Tamil Nadu, the Malabar region of North Kerala, the coastal and regions of Andhra Pradesh, and the Bellary, Dakshina Kannada, and Udupi districts of Karnataka. It was established in 1653 to be the headquarters of the English settlements on the Coromandel Coast. After India's independence in 1947, Madras State, the precursor to the present day state of Tamil Nadu, was carved out of Madras Presidency. It comprised present-day Tamil Nadu and parts of present-day Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.[2] Tabular # Name Took Office Left Office Term[nb 1] [3] 1 Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye 6 May 1946 7 September 1948 1

2 Maharaja Sir Krishna Kumarasinhji Bhavsinhji 7 September 1948 12 March 1952 1

3 Sri Prakasa 12 March 1952 10 December 1956 1

4 A. J. John, Anaparambil 10 December 1956 30 September 1957 1 - Pakala Venkata Rajamannar (acting) 1 October 1957 24 January 1958 1

5 Bhishnuram Medhi 24 January 1958 4 May 1964 1

6 Maharaja Sir Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur 4 May 1964 24 November 1964 1 - P. Chandra Reddy (acting)[4] 24 November 1964 7 December 1965 1 [nb 2] 7 Maharaja Sir Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur 7 December 1965 28 June 1966 1 8 Sardar Ujjal Singh (acting till 16 June 1967) 28 June 1966 14 January 1969 1

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acts as the nominal head of the state while the Chief Ministers of the states and the Chief Minister's Council of Ministers are invested with most executive powers.

Tabular President Term[nb # Name Took Office Left Office who appointed the 1] Governor 14 January

8 Sardar Ujjal Singh 27 May 1971 1 Zakir Hussain 1969

9 Kodardas Kalidas Shah 27 May 1971 16 June 1976 1 Varaha Venkata Giri

10 16 June 1976 8 April 1977 1 - P. Govindan Nair (acting)[5] 9 April 1977 27 April 1977 1

27 October

11 27 April 1977 1 Basappa Danappa Jatti 1980 27 October 4 November - M. M. Ismail (acting) 1 1980 1980 4 November 3 September

12 Sadiq Ali 1 1980 1982 3 September 17 February

13 Sundar Lal Khurana, IAS (Retired) 1 Giani Zail Singh 1982 1988 17 February

14 P. C. Alexander, IAS (Retired) 24 May 1990 1 R. Venkataraman 1988 15 February

15 Surjit Singh Barnala 24 May 1990 1 R. Venkataraman 1991 15 February

16 Bhishma Narain Singh 31 May 1993 1 R. Venkataraman 1991 2 December

17 Marri Chenna Reddy 31 May 1993 1 Shankar Dayal Sharma 1996 2 December 25 January - Krishan Kant (additional charge)[5] 1 1996 1997 25 January

18 M. 3 July 2001 1 Shankar Dayal Sharma 1997 18 January - C. Rangarajan (additional charge) 3 July 2001 1 2002 P. S. Ramamohan Rao, IPS 18 January 3 November

19 1 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Retired) 2002 2004 3 November

(15) Surjit Singh Barnala 31 August 2011 2 2004

20 Konijeti Rosaiah 31 August 2011 30 August 2016 1 Pratibha Patil C. Vidyasagar Rao (additional 2 September

- 6 October 2017 1 Pranab Mukherjee charge) 2016

21 Banwarilal Purohit 6 October 2017 Incumbent 1 Ram Nath Kovind

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1 E.S.L Narshiman 02 June 2014 Incumbent

List of governors of No Name Took office Left office

1 B. K. Nehru 21 January 1972 22 September 1973

2 L. P. Singh 23 September 1973 13 August 1981

3 S. M. H. Burney 14 August 1981 13 June 1984

4 K. V. Krishna Rao 14 June 1984 11 July 1989

5 Sultan Singh 12 July 1989 11 February 1990

6 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 12 February 1990 14 August 1993

7 Romesh Bhandari 15 August 1993 15 June 1995

8 Siddheswar Prasad 16 June 1995 22 June 2000

9 Krishna Mohan Seth 23 June 2000 31 May 2003

10 2 June 2003 14 October 2009

11 Kamla Beniwal 15 October 2009 26 November 2009

12 Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil 27 November 2009 21 March 2013

13 Devanand Konwar 25 March 2013 29 June 2014

14 Vakkom Purushothaman 30 June 2014 14 July 2014

15 Padmanabha Acharya 21 July 2014 19 May 2015 [2] 16 Tathagata Roy 20 May 2015 25 August 2018 [3] 17 Kaptan Singh Solanki 25 August 2018 28 July 2019

18 29 July 2019 Incumbent

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List of governors of

Name # Took Office Left Office English

Governors of United Provinces (1921-14 August 1947) 1 Sir Harcourt (Spencer) Butler 3 January 1921 21 December 1922

21 December 1922 13 August 1926 2 Sir William S. Marris 1 December 1926 14 January 1928 3 Sir Alexander Phillips Muddiman 15 January 1928 17 June 1928

10 August 1928 21 December 1928 22 April 1929 16 October 1930 4 Sir William Malcolm Hailey 19 April 1931 6 April 1933 27 November 1933 5 December 1934 6 December 1934 16 May 1938 5 Sir Harry Graham Haig 17 September 1938 6 December 1939 6 Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett 7 December 1939 6 December 1945

7 Sir Francis Verner Wylie 7 December 1945 14 August 1947

Governors of United Provinces (15 August 1947-25 January 1950)

8 15 August 1947 2 March 1949

- Justice B.B. Malik (Acting) 3 March 1949 1 May 1949

9 Hormasji Peroshaw Modi 2 May 1949 25 January 1950

Governors of Uttar Pradesh (26 January 1950-Present) 9

Hormasji Peroshaw Mody 26 January 1950 1 June 1952 (contd.)

10 Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi 2 June 1952 9 June 1957

11 Varahgiri Venkatgiri 10 June 1957 30 June 1960

12 Burgula Ramakrishna Rao 1 July 1960 15 April 1962

13 Biswanath Das 16 April 1962 30 April 1967

14 Bezwada Gopala Reddy 1 May 1967 30 June 1972

- Shashi Kant Varma (Acting) [1] 1 July 1972 13 November 1972

15 Akbar Ali Khan 14 November 1972 24 October 1974

16 Marri Chenna Reddy 25 October 1974 1 October 1977

17 Ganpatrao Devji Tapase 2 October 1977 27 February 1980

18 Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh 28 February 1980 31 March 1985

19 Mohammed Usman Arif 31 March 1985 11 February 1990

20 B. Satya Narayan Reddy 12 February 1990 25 May 1993

21 26 May 1993 3 May 1996

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- Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (Acting) 3 May 1996 19 July 1996

22 Romesh Bhandari 19 July 1996 17 March 1998

- Mohammad Shafi Qureshi (Acting) 17 March 1998 19 April 1998

23 Suraj Bhan 20 April 1998 23 November 2000

24 Vishnu Kant Shastri 24 November 2000 2 July 2004

- Sudarshan Agrawal (Acting) 3 July 2004 7 July 2004

25 T. V. Rajeswar 8 July 2004 27 July 2009

26 Banwari Lal Joshi 28 July 2009 17 June 2014

- Aziz Qureshi (acting) 17 June 2014 21 July 2014

27 Ram Naik 22 July 2014 28 July 2019

28 Anandiben Patel 29 July 2019 Incumbent

List of governors of

Appointed by Name № Term Tenure (President of (birth–death) India) Surjit Singh 9 November 2 years, 1 month and

1 Barnala 7 January 2003 K. R. Narayanan 2000 29 days (1925–2017) Sudarshan 28 October 4 years, 9 months and

2 Agarwal 8 January 2003 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 2007 20 days (1931–2019) Banwari Lal Joshi 3 29 October 2007 5 August 2009 1 year, 9 months and 7 days (1936–2017) Margaret Alva

4 6 August 2009 14 May 2012 2 years, 9 months and 8 days Pratibha Patil (born 1942) Aziz Qureshi 2 years, 7 months and 5 15 May 2012 7 January 2015 (born 1940) 23 days Krishan Kant Paul 3 years, 7 months and

6 8 January 2015 25 August 2018 Pranab Mukherjee (born 1948) 17 days

7 26 August 2018 Incumbent 11 months and 25 days Ram Nath Kovind (born 1956)

List of governors of

Sl. No. Name Took office Left office 1 Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (acting) 15 August 1947 21 June 1948

2 Kailash Nath Katju 21 June 1948 1 November 1951

3 Harendra Coomar Mookerjee 1 November 1951 8 August 1956

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4 Phani Bhusan Chakravartti 8 August 1956 3 November 1956

5 3 November 1956 1 June 1967

6 Dharma Vira 1 June 1967 1 April 1969 7 Deep Narayan Sinha (acting) 1 April 1969 19 September 1969

8 Shanti Swaroop Dhavan 19 September 1969 21 August 1971

9 Anthony Lancelot Dias 21 August 1971 6 November 1979

10 Tribhuvana Narayana Singh 6 November 1979 12 September 1981

11 Bhairab Dutt Pande 12 September 1981 10 October 1983

12 Anant Prasad Sharma 10 October 1983 16 August 1984 13 Satish Chandra (acting) 16 August 1984 1 October 1984

14 1 October 1984 12 August 1986

15 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 12 August 1986 20 March 1989

16 T. V. Rajeswar 20 March 1989 7 February 1990

17 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 7 February 1990 12 July 1993 18 B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge) 13 July 1993 14 August 1993

19 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 14 August 1993 27 April 1998 20 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge) 27 April 1998 18 May 1999 21 (acting) 18 May 1999 4 December 1999

22 Viren J. Shah 4 December 1999 14 December 2004

23 Gopalkrishna Gandhi 14 December 2004 14 December 2009 24 Devanand Konwar (additional charge) 14 December 2009 23 January 2010

25 M.K. Narayanan 24 January 2010 30 June 2014 26 D. Y. Patil (acting charge)[2] 3 July 2014 17 July 2014

27 Keshari Nath Tripathi 24 July 2014 29 July 2019 [3] 28 Jagdeep Dhankar 30 July 2019 Incumbent

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