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WorldStatesmen.org Home to India > to British India Provinces >> States of India since 1947 States and Territories Andaman and Nicobar Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Dadra and NagarHaveli Daman and Diu Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Lakshadweep Madhya Pradesh Madhya Bharat Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal Note: Between 26 Jan 1950 and 1 Nov 1956 there were four types of divisions: states under a governor, states under a rajpramukh, states under a chief commissioner, and one territory; from 1956 there were only states (former governor and rajpramukh states) and union territories (former chief commissioner states and the territory). Party abbreviations: AAP = Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man's Party, center‐left, anti‐corruption, est.2012); AC = Arunachal Congress (Arunachal Pradesh regionalist, split from INC, est.1996); AGP = Asom Gana Parishad (Assam Peoples Association, Assam regionalist, est.1985); AIADMK = All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Dravida Progressive Foundation, centrist, social democratic, Tamil Nadu regionalist, split from DMK, est.1972); AINRC = All India N.R. Congress (social‐democratic, centrist, split from INC by N. Rangasamy, Puducherry regionalist, est.2011); AITMC = All India Trinamool Congress (All India Grassroots Congress, social‐democratic, West Bengal regionalist, split from INC, est.1997); BJD = Biju Janata Dal (Biju People's Party, center‐left, Odisha regionalist, est.1997); BJP = Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party, conservative, Hindu populist, est.1980); BSP = Bahujan Samaj Party (People in Majority Society Party, Dalit socialism, secularist, scheduled castes minority, est.1984); CPI = Communist Party of India (Bharatiya Kamyunist Parti, communist, est.1925); CPI‐M = Communist Party of India‐Marxist (marxist communist, split from CPI, est.1964); CPI‐ML = Communist Party of India‐Marxist Leninist Liberation (marxist‐leninist communist, split from CPI‐M, est.1974); DMK = Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Dravidian Progress Federation, social democratic, populist, Tamil Nadu regionalist, est.1949); GJM = Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (pro‐ creation of Gorkhaland state from parts of West Bengal, est.2007); GSRP = Goa Su‐Raj Party (Goa Good Governance Party, anti‐corruption, Goa regionalist, est.2002); IUML = Indian Union Muslim League (Kerala and Tamil Nadu regionalist, pro‐muslim community, 1948‐1980, re‐est.1985); INC = Indian National Congress Party (populist, social‐democratic, est.1885; split 1967/77 into separate parties INC‐I, INC‐O, INC‐S, the INC‐I was later recognized by the election commission as the successor to the INC, use of INC‐I continues); INLD = Indian National Lok Dal (Indian National People's Party, Haryana regionalist, est.1987); JD‐S = Janata Dal‐Secular (People's Party‐Secular, center‐left, est.1999); JD‐U = Janata Dal‐United (People's Party‐ United, social‐democratic, merger of JD and SP, est.Oct 2003); JMM = Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Jharkhand Liberation Front, Jharkhand regionalist, center‐right, est.2000); MGP = Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (Goa regionalist, populist, centrist, est.1961); MNF = Mizo National Front (Mizoram regionalist, Mizo nationalist, social democratic, est.1961); MPC = Mizoram People's Conference (Mizoram regionalist, est.1975); MPP = Manipur People's Party (Manipur regionalist, split from INC, est.1967); NCP = Nationalist Congress Party (center‐left, populist, secular, split from INC‐I, est.1999); NDA = National Democratic Alliance (BJP coalition incl. ADMK, AITC, BJD, MNF, NPF, SAD, SHS, and TDP, est.1998); NF = National Front (formerly National Front‐Left/United Front, leftist coalition: AGP, CPI, CPI‐M, DMK, JD, JKNC, SP, TDP, DMK, RSP, and TMC); NNDP = Naga National Democratic Party (Nagaland regionalist, est.1964); NPF = Nagaland People's Front (Nagaland regionalist, former NPC, est.2002); PPAP = People's Party of Arunachal Pradesh

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    StatesofIndiasince1947StatesandTerritoriesAndamanandNicobarAndhraPradeshArunachalPradeshAssamBiharChandigarhChhattisgarhDadraandNagarHaveliDamanandDiuDelhiGoaGujaratHaryanaHimachalPradeshJharkhandKarnatakaKeralaLakshadweepMadhyaPradeshMadhyaBharatMaharashtraManipurMeghalayaMizoramNagalandOdishaPuducherryPunjabRajasthanSikkimTamilNaduTelanganaTripuraUttarPradeshUttarakhandWestBengal

    Note:Between26Jan1950and1Nov1956therewerefourtypesofdivisions:statesunderagovernor,statesunderarajpramukh,statesunderachiefcommissioner,andoneterritory;from1956therewereonlystates(formergovernorandrajpramukhstates)andunionterritories(formerchiefcommissionerstatesandtheterritory).

    Partyabbreviations:AAP=AamAadmiParty(CommonMan'sParty,centerleft,anticorruption,est.2012);AC=ArunachalCongress(ArunachalPradeshregionalist,splitfromINC,est.1996);AGP=AsomGanaParishad(AssamPeoplesAssociation,Assamregionalist,est.1985);AIADMK=AllIndiaAnnaDravidaMunnetraKazhagam(DravidaProgressiveFoundation,centrist,socialdemocratic,TamilNaduregionalist,splitfromDMK,est.1972);AINRC=AllIndiaN.R.Congress(socialdemocratic,centrist,splitfromINCbyN.Rangasamy,Puducherryregionalist,est.2011);AITMC=AllIndiaTrinamoolCongress(AllIndiaGrassrootsCongress,socialdemocratic,WestBengalregionalist,splitfromINC,est.1997);BJD=BijuJanataDal(BijuPeople'sParty,centerleft,Odisharegionalist,est.1997);BJP=BharatiyaJanataParty(IndianPeople'sParty,conservative,Hindupopulist,est.1980);BSP=BahujanSamajParty(PeopleinMajoritySocietyParty,Dalitsocialism,secularist,scheduledcastesminority,est.1984);CPI=CommunistPartyofIndia(BharatiyaKamyunistParti,communist,est.1925);CPIM=CommunistPartyofIndiaMarxist(marxistcommunist,splitfromCPI,est.1964);CPIML=CommunistPartyofIndiaMarxistLeninistLiberation(marxistleninistcommunist,splitfromCPIM,est.1974);DMK=DravidaMunnetraKazhagam(DravidianProgressFederation,socialdemocratic,populist,TamilNaduregionalist,est.1949);GJM=GorkhaJanmuktiMorcha(procreationofGorkhalandstatefrompartsofWestBengal,est.2007);GSRP=GoaSuRajParty(GoaGoodGovernanceParty,anticorruption,Goaregionalist,est.2002);IUML=IndianUnionMuslimLeague(KeralaandTamilNaduregionalist,promuslimcommunity,19481980,reest.1985);INC=IndianNationalCongressParty(populist,socialdemocratic,est.1885;split1967/77intoseparatepartiesINCI,INCO,INCS,theINCIwaslaterrecognizedbytheelectioncommissionasthesuccessortotheINC,useofINCIcontinues);INLD=IndianNationalLokDal(IndianNationalPeople'sParty,Haryanaregionalist,est.1987);JDS=JanataDalSecular(People'sPartySecular,centerleft,est.1999);JDU=JanataDalUnited(People'sPartyUnited,socialdemocratic,mergerofJDandSP,est.Oct2003);JMM=JharkhandMuktiMorcha(JharkhandLiberationFront,Jharkhandregionalist,centerright,est.2000);MGP=MaharashtrawadiGomantakParty(Goaregionalist,populist,centrist,est.1961);MNF=MizoNationalFront(Mizoramregionalist,Mizonationalist,socialdemocratic,est.1961);MPC=MizoramPeople'sConference(Mizoramregionalist,est.1975);MPP=ManipurPeople'sParty(Manipurregionalist,splitfromINC,est.1967);NCP=NationalistCongressParty(centerleft,populist,secular,splitfromINCI,est.1999);NDA=NationalDemocraticAlliance(BJPcoalitionincl.ADMK,AITC,BJD,MNF,NPF,SAD,SHS,andTDP,est.1998);NF=NationalFront(formerlyNationalFrontLeft/UnitedFront,leftistcoalition:AGP,CPI,CPIM,DMK,JD,JKNC,SP,TDP,DMK,RSP,andTMC);NNDP=NagaNationalDemocraticParty(Nagalandregionalist,est.1964);NPF=NagalandPeople'sFront(Nagalandregionalist,formerNPC,est.2002);PPAP=People'sPartyofArunachalPradesh

  • (ArunachalPradeshregionalist,est.1977);RJD=RashtriyaJanataDal(NationalPeople'sParty,Biharregionalist,socialist,socialconservative,est.1997);SAD=ShiromaniAkaliDal(SupremeAkailParty,Sikhreligiousparty,est.1920);SAP=SamataParty(EqualityParty,socialist,splitfromJD,est.1994);SHS=ShivSena(Shivaji'sArmy,Hinduist,Marathinationalist,farright,est.1966);SJP=SamajwadiJanataParty(SocialistPeople'sParty,splitfromJD,est.1990);SJPR=SamajwadiJanataPartyRashtriya(SocialistPeople'sPartyNational,splitfromJD,est.1990);SkDF=SikkimDemocraticFront(Sikkimregionalist,democraticsocialist,est.1993);SP=SamajwadiParty(SocialistParty,democraticsocialist,antiEnglishlanguage,est.1992);TDP=TeluguDesam(PartyforTeluguLandandPeople,AndraPradeshregionalist,populist,socialliberal,est.1982);TRS=TelanganaRashtraSamithi(Telanganaregionalist,centerright,est.2001);UDF=UnitedDemocraticFront(Nagalandregionalist,foundedasUnitedFrontofNagaland,est.1967?);UDP=UnitedDemocraticParty(Meghalayaregionalist,populist,est.1997);Mil=Military;Formerparties:ACM=ArunachalCongressMithi(ArunachalPradeshregionalist,splitfromACbyMukutMithi,19981999,mergedintoINC);APHLC=AllPartyHillLeadersConference(Meghalayaregionalist,Hillpeoplerights,1960af.1983);BAC=BanglaCongressParty(WestBengalregionalist,splitfromINC,19651971,mergedintoINC);BKD=BharatiyaKrantiDal(RevolutionaryParty,rightist,anticommunist,partofBLD,splitfromINC,19671977,mergedintoJP);BLD=BharatiyaLokDal(IndianPeoples'Party,INCIopposition,19741977,mergedintoJP);BJS=BharatiyaJanSangh(IndianPeople'sAlliance,Hinduist,mergedintoJP19771980,from1980BJP);CD=CongressforDemocracy(splitfromINCI,1977,megedintoJP);GPC=GoaPeople'sCongress(Goaregionalist,splitfromINC,20002001,mergedintoINC);GRCP=GoaRajivCongressParty(Goaregionalist,splitfromINC,19981999,mergedintoNCP);HPU=HillPeople'sUnion(Meghalayaregionalist,1988?1997,mergedintoUDP);HVP=HaryanaVikasParty(HaryanaDevelopmentParty,Haryanaregionalist,19962004,mergedintoINC);INCI=IndianNationalCongressPartyIndira(INCIndiraGhandifaction,alsocalled"NewCongress",populist,socialist,splitfromINC,19771996);INCO=IndianNationalCongressOrganisation("OldCongress",rumpINCthatrefusedIndiraGandhi,19681977,mergedintoJP);IPADF=IndependentProgressiveDemocraticAllianceFront(WestBengalregionalist,leftistcoalition,splitfromUF,19671968);JD=JanataDal(People'sParty,socialdemocratic,19882004mergedwithSPasJDU);JKD=JanaKrantiDal(PartyofthePeople'sRevolution,Biharregionalist,splitfromINC,19661967,mergedintoBKD);JM=JanataMorcha(People'sFront,antiIndriaGandhiopposition,19741977,mergedintoJP);JP=JanataParishad(People'sParty,opposedINCI,19771989,mergedintoJD);JPS=JanataPartySecular(antiINCI,splitfromJP,19791980,renamedLD);LD=LokDal(People'sParty,formerJPS,est.1980);MHU=ManipurHillsUnion(Manipurregionalist,19741976,mergedintoINC);MPA=MeghalayaProgressiveAlliance(Meghalayacoalition,NCPandUPD,20082009);MSCP=ManipurStateCongressParty(Manipurregionalist,splitfromINC,19972014,mergedintoINC);MU=MizoUnion(Mizoramregionalist,19461974);MUF=ManipurUnitedFront(Manipurregionalist,antiINCalliance,1967);NPC=NagalandPeople'sCouncil(Nagaregionalist,1987?1998);NNO=NagaNationalistOrganization(Nagaregionalist,prostatehood,19641976,mergedintoINCI);PDF=ProgressiveDemocraticFront(splitfromINC,inGoaandMaharashtra,1978c.1990);PSP=PrajaSocialistParty(socialist,19521972);RJP=RashtriyaJanataParty(NationalPeople'sParty,Gujaratregionalist,splitfromBJP,19961998,mergedintoINC);SD=SoshitDal(Biharregionalist,splitfromSVD,19671972,renamedShoshitSamajDal);SkJP=SikkimJanataParishad(SikkimPopularAssociation,Sikkimregionalist,19771981,mergedintoINC);SkSP=SikkimSangramParishad(SikkimRevolutionaryAssociation,democraticsocialist,Sikkimregionalist,1984c.2004,mergedintoINC);SmP=SamataParty(socialist,19942003,mergedwithJDasJDU,minoritycontinuesasSmP);SSP=SamyuktaSocialistParty(UnitedSocialistParty,socialist,splitfromPSP,19641972);SwP=SwatantraParty(IndependentParty,conservative,mergedwithBKD,splitfromINC,19591974);TMC=TamilMaanilaCongress(TamilNaduregionalist,centrist,splitfromINCbyG.K.Moopanar,19962002,mergedintoINC);UDFP=UnitedDemocraticFrontProgressive(Nagalandregionalist,1980splitfromUDF,mergedintoINCI);UF=UnitedFront(leftistINCcoalition,laterNF);VHP=VishalHaryanaParty(GreaterHaryanaParty,Haryanaregionalist,19671978,mergedintoINCI)

    AndamanandNicobar

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950Territory1Nov1956Unionterritory

    Chiefcommissioners19471949InamulMajid(b.1895d.19..)19491953AjoyKumarGhosh(b.1908)19531956SankarNathMaitra(b.1912)1956C.Ramachandran

  • 19561958T.G.N.Ayyar19581961M.V.Rajawade19615Jun1965B.N.Maheshwari5Jun19651966B.L.Chak(b.1916)19661968MahabirSinghOct19681972HarcharanSinghButalia(b.1921)19721975HarmanderSingh19751979SurendraMohanKrishnatry(b.1921)19791982SunderLalSharmaLieutenantgovernors12Nov19823Dec1985ManoharLalKampani(b.1923)4Dec198524Feb1990TirathSinghOberoi(b.1926)Dec198924Feb1990RomeshBhandari(b.1928d.2013)(didnottakeoffice)25Feb19904Jul1992RanjitSinghDayal(1sttime)(b.1928d.2012)4Jul199213Aug1992BhishmaNarainSingh(b.1933)14Aug199215Mar1993RanjitSinghDayal(2ndtime)(s.a.)19Mar199318Mar1996VakkomPurushothaman(b.1928)19Mar19969Nov1996RajendraKumariBajpai(1sttime)(b.1925d.1999)10Nov19962Dec1996M.ChennaReddy(b.1919d.1996)2Dec199622Dec1996RajendraKumariBajpai(2ndtime)(s.a.)22Dec199625May2001IshwariPrasadGupta(b.1931)26May20014Jan2004NagendraNathJha(b.1935)5Jan200430May2006Ramchandra"Ram"Kapse(b.1933)12Feb200629Dec2006MadanMohanLakhera(b.1937)(acting[forKapseto30May2006])29Dec20068Jul2013BhopinderSingh(b.1946)8Jul2013AjayKumarSingh

    AndhraPradesh

    1Oct1953AndhraStatecreatedfrompartofMadras(seeTamilNadu).1Nov1956AndhraPradesh.

    Governors1Oct19531Aug1957SirChandulalMadhavlalTrivedi(b.1893d.1981)1Aug19578Sep1962BhimSenSachar(b.1893d.1978)8Sep19624May1964SatyavantMallannahSrinagesh(b.1903d.1977)4May196411Apr1968PattomThanuPillai(b.1885d.1970)11Apr196825Jan1975KhandubhaiKasanjiDesai(b.1898d.1975)25Jan197510Jan1976S.ObulReddy(b.1916)10Jan197616Jun1976MohanLalSukhadia(b.1916d.1982)16Jun197617Feb1977R.D.Bhandare(b.1916d.1988)17Feb19775May1977B.J.Divan(acting)(b.1919d.2012)5May197715Aug1978SharadaMukherjee(f)(b.1919)15Aug197815Aug1983KochakkanChackoAbraham(b.1899d.1986)

  • 15Aug198329Aug1984ThakurRamLal(b.1929d.2002)29Aug198426Nov1985ShankarDayalSharma(b.1918d.1999)26Nov19857Feb1990ManishankarKumudbenJoshi(f)(b.1934)7Feb199022Aug1997KrishanKant(b.1927d.2002)22Aug199724Nov1997GopalaRamanujam(b.1915d.2001)24Nov19973Jan2003ChakravartiRangarajan(b.1932?)3Jan20034Nov2004SurjitSinghBarnala(b.1925)4Nov200429Jan2006SushilKumarShinde(b.1941)29Jan200622Aug2007RameshwarThakur(b.1927d.2015)22Aug200727Dec2009NarainDuttTiwari(b.1925)27Dec2009E.S.L.Narasimhan(b.1946)

    Chiefministers1Oct195315Nov1954TanguturiPrakasam(b.1872d.1957)INC15Nov195428Mar1955President'srule28Mar19551Nov1956BezawadaGopalaReddy(b.1907d.1997)INC1Nov195611Jan1960NeelamSanjivaReddy(1sttime)(b.1913d.1996)INC11Jan196012Mar1962DamodaramSanjivayya(b.1921d.1972)INC12Mar196229Feb1964NeelamSanjivaReddy(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC29Feb196430Sep1971KasuBrahmanandaReddy(b.1909d.1994)INC30Sep197110Jan1973P.V.NarasimhaRao(b.1921d.2004)INC10Jan197310Dec1973President'srule10Dec19736Mar1978JalagamVengalaRao(b.1921d.1999)INC6Mar197811Oct1980MarriChannaReddy(1sttime)(b.1919d.1996)INCI11Oct198024Feb1982TanguturiAnjaiah(b.1919d.1986)INCI24Feb198220Sep1982BhabaramVenkataramReddy(b.1931d.2002)INCI20Sep19829Jan1983KotlaVijayaBhaskaraReddy(b.1920d.2001)INCI(1sttime)9Jan198316Aug1984NandamunT.RamaRao(1sttime)(b.1923d.1996)INC16Aug198416Sep1984NadendlaBhaskaraRao(b.1935)TDP16Sep19843Dec1989NandamunT.RamaRao(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC;1985TDP3Dec198917Dec1990MarriChannaReddy(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC17Dec19909Oct1992N.JanardhanReddy(b.1953d.2014)INC9Oct199212Dec1994KotlaVijayaBhaskaraReddy(s.a.)INC(2ndtime)12Dec19941Sep1995NandamunT.RamaRao(3rdtime)(s.a.)TDP1Sep199514May2004NaraChandrababuNaidu(1sttime)(b.1950)TDP14May20042Sep2009Y.S.RajasekharaReddy(b.1949d.2009)INC2Sep200925Nov2010KonijetiRosaiah(b.1933)INC25Nov20101Mar2014KiranKumarReddy(b.1960)INC1Mar20148Jun2014President'srule8Jun2014NaraChandrababuNaidu(2ndtime)(s.a.)TDP

    Hyderabad

    17Sep1948IndiamilitaryoccupiesHyderabad.24Nov1949AccessiontoIndiaagreedtoasofIndianRepublicDay.26Jan1950State1Nov1956PartofAndhraPradeshState.

    Militarygovernor17Sep1948Dec1949JoyantoNathChaudhuri(b.1908d.1983)MilRajpramukh26Jan195031Oct1956FathJangMirOsmanAliKhan(b.1886d.1967)

  • Chiefministers26Jan19506Mar1952M.K.Vellodi(b.1896d.....)INC6Mar195231Oct1956BurgulaRamakrishnaRao(b.1899d.1967)INC

    ArunachalPradesh

    21Jan1972UnionterritorycreatedfrompartofAssam.20Feb1987State

    Chiefcommissioners20Jan19721973K.A.A.Raja19741975ManoharL.Kampani(b.1923)Lieutenantgovernors15Aug197518Jan1979K.A.A.Raja18Jan197923Jul1981RamdasNarayanHaldipur(b.1921d.2003)23Jul198110Aug1983H.S.Dubey(b.1926)10Aug198321Nov1985ThanjaveluRajeshwar(b.1926)21Nov198520Feb1987ShivaSwaroopGovernors20Feb198719Mar1987BhishmaNarainSingh(acting)(b.1933)19Mar198717Mar1990R.D.Pradhan17Mar19909May1990GopalSingh(acting)(b.1919)9May199017Mar1991D.D.Thakur(acting)(b.1930d.2007)17Mar199126Mar1991LoknathMishra(acting)(b.1922d.2009)26Mar19915Jul1993SurendraNathDwivedi(b.1913d.2001)5Jul199321Oct1993MadhukarDighe(acting)(b.1920d.2014)21Oct19931Apr1996MataPrasad(1sttime)2Apr199312Apr1996M.M.Jacob(b.1928)13Apr199616May1999MataPrasad(2ndtime)17May19992Aug1999S.K.Sinha(b.1926)2Aug199913Jun2003ArvindDave(b.1940)13Jun200316Dec2004VinodChandraPande(b.1932d.2005)16Dec200423Jan2007ShilendraKumarSingh(b.1932d.2009)24Jan20076Apr2007M.M.Jacob(b.1928)7Apr200714Apr2007K.Sankaranarayanan(1sttime)(b.1932)15Apr20073Sep2007ShailendraKumarSingh(b.1932d.2009)4Sep200727Jan2008K.Sankaranarayanan(2ndtime)(s.a.)27Jan200829May2013JoginderJaswantSingh(b.1945)29May2013NirbhaySharma(b.1946)

    Chiefministers13Aug197518Sep1979PremKhanduThungon(b.1946)JP18Sep19793Nov1979TomoRiba(b.1937d.2000)PPAP3Nov197918Jan1980President'srule18Jan198019Jan1999GegongApang(1sttime)(b.1947)INC:1996AC19Jan19993Aug2003MukutMithi(b.1954)ACM3Aug20039Apr2007GegongApang(2ndtime)(s.a.)UDF;2003BJP;2004INC

  • 9Apr200730Apr2011DorjeeKhandu(b.1955d.2011)INC5May20111Nov2011JarbomGamlin(b.1961d.2014)INC1Nov2011NabamTuki(b.1964)INC

    Assam

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State

    Governors15Aug194728Dec1948SirMuhammadSalidAkbarHydari(b.1894d.1948)30Dec194816Feb1949RonaldFrancisLodge(acting)(b.1889d.1960)16Feb194927May1950SriPrakasa(b.1890d.1971)27May195015May1956JairamdasDaulatram(b.1891d.1979)15May195622Aug1959SaiyidFazlAli(b.1886d.1959)23Aug195914Oct1959ChandreswarPrasadSinha14Oct195912Nov1960SatyavantMallannahSrinagesh(b.1903d.1977)(1sttime)12Nov196013Jan1961VishnuSahay(1sttime)(b.1901d.1989)13Jan19617Sep1962SatyavantMallannahSrinagesh(s.a.)(2ndtime)7Sep196217Apr1968VishnuSahay(2ndtime)(s.a.)17Apr19688Dec1970BrajKumarNehru(1sttime)(b.1909d.2001)8Dec19704Jan1971ParbatiKumarGoswami(b.1913d.1992)4Jan197119Sep1973BrajKumarNehru(2ndtime)(s.a.)19Sep197310Aug1981LallanPrasadSingh(b.1912d.1998)10Aug198128Mar1984PrakashChandraMehrotra(b.1925)28Mar198415Apr1984TriveniSahaiMisra(b.1922)15Apr198510May1989BhishmaNarainSingh(b.1933)10May198921Jul1989HarideoJoshi(b.1921d.1995)21Jul19892May1990AnisettiRoghuvir(b.19..d.2007)2May199017Mar1991D.D.Thakur(b.1930d.2007)17Mar19911Sep1997LoknathMishra(b.1922d.2009)1Sep199721Apr2003S.K.Sinha(b.1926)21Apr20035Jun2003ArvindDave(b.1940)5Jun20034Jul2008AjaiSingh(b.1935)4Jul200825Jun2009ShivCharanMathur(b.1926d.2009)26Jun200927Jul2009K.Sankaranarayanan(b.1932)27Jul200911Dec2009SyedSibteyRazi(b.1939)11Dec200911Dec2014JanakiBallabhPatnaik(b.1927d.2015)12Dec2014PadmanabhaBalakrishnaAcharya(b.1931)

    Chiefministers15Aug19476Aug1950SrijutGopinathBardoloi(b.1891d.1950)INC9Aug195028Dec1957BishnuramMedhi(b.1888d.1981)INC28Dec19576Nov1970BimaliPrasadChaliha(b.1912d.1971)INC11Nov197031Jan1972MahendraMohanChoudhury(b.1908d.1983)INC31Jan197212Mar1978SaratChandraSinha(b.1914d.2005)INC

  • 12Mar19784Sep1979GolapBorbora(b.1926d.2006)JP9Sep197911Dec1979JogendraNathHazarika(b.1924d.1997)JP11Dec197912Dec1980President'srule12Dec198029Jun1981AnwaraTaimur(f)(b.1936)INC29Jun198113Jan1982President'srule13Jan198219Mar1982KeshavChandraGogoi(b.1922?d.1998)INC27Feb198324Dec1985HiteshwarSaikia(1sttime)(b.1934d.1996)INC24Dec198527Nov1990PrafullaKumarMahanta(1sttime)(b.1952)AGP27Nov199030Jun1991President'srule30Jun199122Apr1996HiteshwarSaikia(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC22Apr199615May1996BhumidharBarman(b.1931)INC15May199618May2001PrafullaKumarMahanta(2ndtime)(s.a.)AGP18May2001TarunGogoi(b.1936)INC

    Bihar

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State

    Governors15Aug194711Jan1948JairamdasDaulatram(b.1891d.1979)12Jan194816Jun1952MadhavraoSrihariAney(b.1880d.1968)16Jun19525Jul1957RanganathRamachandraDiwakar(b.1894d.1990)6Jul195711May1962ZakirHusain(b.1897d.1969)12May19626Dec1967M.AnanthasayanamAyyangar(b.1881d.1978)7Dec196720Jan1971NityanandKanungo(b.1900d.1988)20Jan197131Jan1971UjjalNarayanSinha1Feb19713Feb1973DevKanthBorooah(b.1914d.1996)3Feb197315Jun1976R.D.Bhandare(b.1916d.1988)16Jun197611Sep1979JagannathKaushal(1sttime)(b.1915d.2001)27May197826Jun1978KrishnaBallabhNarayanSingh(1sttime)27Jun197830Jan1979JagannathKaushal(2ndtime)(s.a.)30Jan197919Sep1979KrishnaBallabhNarayanSingh(2ndtime)20Sep197914Mar1985AkhlaqurRahmanKidwai(1sttime)(b.1920)15Mar198525Feb1988PendekantiVenkatasubbaiah(b.1921d.1993)26Feb198823Jan1989GovindNarayanSingh(b.1920d.2005)29Jan19892Mar1989RamchandraDattatrayaPradhan(b.1928)3Mar19892Feb1990JagannathPahadia(b.1932)2Feb199016Feb1990G.G.Sohani(acting)16Feb199014Feb1991MohammadYunusSaleem(b.1912d.2004)14Feb199118Mar1991B.SatyanarayanReddy(b.1927d.2012)19Mar199113Aug1993MohammadShafiQureshi(b.1929)14Aug199326Apr1998AkhlaqurRahmanKidwai(2ndtime)(s.a.)27Apr199815Mar1999SunderSinghBhandari(b.1921d.2005)15Mar19996Oct1999BrijMohanLal(acting)(b.1937)6Oct199923Nov1999SurajBhan(b.1928d.2006)23Nov199912Jun2003VinodChandraPande(b.1932d.2005)12Jun20031Nov2004M.RamaJois(b.1931)1Nov20045Nov2004VedMarwah(b.1932)5Nov200431Jan2006ButaSingh(b.1934)31Jan200622Jun2006GopalkrishnaGandhi(b.1945)22Jun200610Jul2008R.S.Gavai(b.1929)10Jul200829Jun2009RaghunandanLalBhatia(b.1921)

  • 29Jun200922Mar2013DevanandKonwar(b.1943?)22Mar201326Nov2014D.Y.Patil(b.1935)27Nov2014KeshariNathTripathi(b.1934)

    Chiefministers15Aug194731Jan1961SrikrishnaSinha(b.1888d.1961)INC31Jan196118Feb1961DeepNarayanSingh(b.1894d.1977)INC18Feb19611Oct1963PanditBinodanandaJha(b.1900d.1971)INC1Oct19635Mar1967KrishnaBallabhSahay(b.1898d.1974)INC5Mar196728Jan1968MahamayaPrasadSinha(b.1909d.1987)JKD28Jan19681Feb1968SatishPrasadSingh(b.1936)INC1Feb196823Feb1968BindeyyeshwariPrasadMandal(b.1918d.1982)INC23Feb196829Jun1968BholaPaswanShastri(1sttime)(b.1914d.1985)INCO29Jun196829Feb1968President'srule29Feb196922Jun1969HariharPrasadSingh(b.1899?d.19..)INC22Jun19694Jul1969BholaPaswanShastri(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCO4Jul196916Feb1970President'srule16Feb197022Dec1970DarogaPrasadRai(b.1922d.1981)INC22Dec19702Jun1971KarpooriThakur(1sttime)(b.1924d.1988)SocialistPty2Jun19719Jan1972BholaPaswanShastri(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC9Jan197219Mar1972President'srule19Mar19722Jul1973KedarPandey(b.1920d.19..)INC2Jul197311Apr1975AbdulGhafoor(b.1918d.2004)INC11Apr197530Apr1977JagannathMishra(1sttime)(b.1937)INC30Apr197724Jun1977President'srule24Jun197721Apr1979KarpooriThakur(2ndtime)(s.a.)JP21Apr197917Feb1980RamSundarDas(b.1923d.2015)JP17Feb19808Jun1980President'srule8Jun198014Aug1983JagannathMishra(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI14Aug198325Mar1985ChandraShekharSingh(b.1927d.2007)INCI25Mar198514Feb1988BindeshwariDubey(b.1921d.1993)INCI14Feb198811Mar1989BhagwatJhaAzad(b.1922d.2011)INCI11Mar19896Dec1989SatyendraNarainSinha(b.1917d.2006)INCI6Dec198910Mar1990JagannathMishra(3rdtime)(s.a.)INCI10Mar199028Mar1995LaluPrasadYadav(1sttime)(b.1948)JD28Mar19954Apr1995President'srule4Apr199525Jul1997LaluPrasadYadav(2ndtime)(s.a.)JD;Jul1997RJD25Jul199712Feb1999RabriDeviYadav(f)(1sttime)(b.1959)RJD12Feb19998Mar1999President'srule9Mar19993Mar2000RabriDeviYadav(f)(2ndtime)(s.a.)RJD3Mar200010Mar2000NitishKumar(1sttime)(b.1951)JDU10Mar20007Mar2005RabriDeviYadav(f)(3rdtime)(s.a.)RJD7Mar200524Nov2005President'srule24Nov200520May2014NitishKumar(2ndtime)(s.a.)JDU20May201422Feb2015JitanRamManjhi(b.1944)JDU22Feb2015NitishKumar(3rdtime)(s.a.)JDU

    Chandigarh

  • 1Nov1966UnionterritorycreatedfrompartofPunjab.

    ChiefCommissioners1Nov196631Oct1968MohinderSinghRandhawa(b.1909d.1988)31Oct19688Apr1969DamodarDass(b.1914)8Apr19691Sep1972B.P.Bagchi(b.1917)1Sep19723Dec1975MohanPrakashMathur(b.1908d.....)4Dec197515Jun1976G.P.Gupta15Jun197614Jun1978T.N.Chaturvedi(b.1928)15Jun197819Jul1980J.C.Agrawal19Jul19808Mar1982B.S.Sarao(b.1929)8Mar19822Jun1984KrishnaBanerji(1sttime)2Jun19842Aug1984thegovernorofPunjabasadministrator2Aug198430May1985KrishnaBanerji(2ndtime)30May1985thegovernorsofPunjabasadministrators

    Chhattisgarh

    15Aug1947Province1Jan1948PartofCentralProvincesandBerar(laterMadhyaPradesh).1Nov2000State

    Chiefcommissioner19471Jan1948S.N.Mehta(b.1904d.19..)Governors1Nov20002Jun2003DineshNandanSahay(b.1936)2Jun200325Jan2007KrishnaMohanSeth(b.1939)25Jan200723Jan2010E.S.L.Narasimhan(b.1945)23Jan201023Jun2014ShekharDutt(b.1945)2Jul201425Jul2014RamNareshYadav(b.1928)25Jul2014BalramjiDassTandon(b.1927)

    Chiefministers1Nov20007Dec2003AjitJogi(b.1946)INC7Dec2003RamanSingh(b.1952)BJP

    DadraandNagarHaveli

  • 22Jul1954DadraliberatedbyIndiannationalists.2Aug1954NagarHaveliliberatedbyIndiannationalists.15Aug1954EndofPortugueserule(FreeDadraandNagarHaveli)(recognizedbyPortugaon31Dec1974).11Aug1961UnionterritoryofDadraandNagarHaveli.

    Administrators22Jul19541Aug1954R.V.Mudras(inDadra)2Aug195415Aug1954VishwanathLawande(b.1924?d.1998)15Aug1954May1955AppasahebKarmalkar(AtmaramNarsinh)May195517Oct1960AntonioFurtado17Oct19608Jun1962K.G.Badlani(b.1921d.1997)8Jun19622Sep1963TumkurSivasankar(b.1902d.....)2Sep19638Dec1964MulkRajSachdev(b.1903d.1964)12Dec196424Feb1965HariSharma(b.1910)24Feb196518Apr1967KashinathRaghunathDamle(b.1906)18Apr196716Nov1972NakulSen(b.1910)16Nov197216Nov1977S.K.Banerjee(b.1913d.2010)16Nov197731Mar1981PratapSinghGill(b.1916d.2000)31Mar198130Aug1982Jagmohan(b.1927)30Aug198224Feb1983IdrisHasanLatif(1sttime)(b.1923)(acting)24Feb19834Jul1984KershaspTehmuraspSatarawala(b.1916d.2001)4Jul198424Sep1984IdrisHasanLatif(2ndtime)(s.a.)(acting)24Sep198418Jul1989GopalSingh(b.1917d.1990)18Jul198925Mar1991KhurshidAlamKhan(b.1919d.2013)25Mar199116Mar1992BhanuPrakashSingh(b.1929)16Mar199228Mar1994KesarlaiSinghBhaidwan(b.1943)28Mar199415Jul1995RameshChandra15Jul199526Jun1998S.P.Aggarwal(b.1945)26Jun199823Feb1999RameshNegi(1sttime)(acting)(b.1956)23Feb199923Apr1999SanatKaul(b.1947)23Apr199919Jul1999RameshNegi(2ndtime)(acting)(s.a.)19Jul199912Nov2002OmPrakashKelkar(b.1947)12Nov200216Nov2005ArunMathur(b.1952)16Nov200526May2006V.K.Singh26May20061Jun2006Dharmendra(b.1965)1Jun200629Jan2008RajaniKantVerma(b.1959)29Jan20087Mar2011SatyaGopal(b.1962)7Mar201127Sep2012NarendraKumar(b.1957)28Sep201218Aug2014BhupinderSinghBhalla(b.1964)18Aug2014AshishKundra

    DamanandDiu

  • 19Dec1961Goa,Daman,andDiuoccupiedbyIndia.16Mar1962AnnexedbyIndia(recognizedbyPortugalon31Dec1974)20Mar196230May1987PartofGoa,Daman,andDiuUnionTerritory(seeGoa).30May1987SeparateUnionTerritoryofDamanandDiu.

    Administrators30May1987theadministratorsofDadraandNagarHaveli

    Delhi

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State1Nov1956Unionterritory1Feb1992NationalCapitalTerritoryofDelhi

    Chiefcommissioners19481954ShankarPrasada(b.1905)19541959AnandDattahayaPandit(b.1909)19591963BhagwanSahay(b.1905d.1986)19631964DharmaVira(b.1906d.2000)19647Sep1966VenkataVishwanathan(b.1909d.1987)7Sep19661Nov1966AdityNathJha(b.1911d.1972)Lieutenantgovernors1Nov196619Jan1972AdityNathJha(s.a.)19Jan197223Mar1972M.G.Pimputkar(b.1919)24Mar19723Oct1974BaleshwarPrasad(b.1914d.1996)4Oct197430Mar1977KrishanChand(d.1978)31Mar197716Feb1980DalipRaiKohli(b.1919d.2007)17Feb198030Mar1981Jagmohan(1sttime)(b.1927)30Mar19811Sep1982SundarLalKhurana(b.1918)2Sep198225Apr1984Jagmohan(2ndtime)(s.a.)26Apr19843Nov1984P.G.Gavai(b.19..d.2009)4Nov198415Nov1985MohanM.K.Wali16Nov19853Aug1988HarkishanLalKapoor(b.1923)4Aug198813Dec1989RomeshBhandari(b.1928d.2013)14Dec198917Dec1990ArjunSingh(b.1930d.2011)17Dec19904May1992MarkandeySingh(b.1925?d.2007)4May19924Jan1997PrasannabhaiKarunashankarDave(b.1923d.2006)4Jan199720Apr1998TejendraKhanna(1sttime)(b.1938)20Apr19989Jun2004VijaiKapoor(b.1938)9Jun20049Apr2007B.L.Joshi(b.1934)9Apr20079Jul2013TejendraKhanna(2ndtime)(s.a.)

  • 9Jul2013NajeebJung(b.1951)

    Chiefministers17Mar195212Feb1955ChaudharyBrahmPrakash(b.1918d.1993)INC12Feb1955Nov1956GurumukhNihalSingh(b.1895d.1969)INCNov19562Dec1993President'srule2Dec199326Feb1996MadanLalKhurana(b.1936)BJP26Feb199612Oct1998SahibSinghVerma(b.1943d.2007)BJP12Oct19983Dec1998SushmaSwaraj(f)(b.1952)BJP3Dec199828Dec2013SheilaDikshit(f)(b.1938)INC28Dec201314Feb2014ArvindKejriwal(1sttime)(b.1968)AAP15Feb201414Feb2015President'srule14Feb2015ArvindKejriwal(2ndtime)(s.a.)AAP

    Goa

    19Dec1961Goa,Daman,andDiuoccupiedbyIndia.16Mar1962AnnexedbyIndia(recognizedbyPortugalon31Dec1974).20Mar1962Goa,Daman,andDiuUnionTerritory.30May1987SplitintoGoastateandDamanandDiuunionterritory.

    MilitaryGovernor19Dec19616Jun1962KennethP.Candeth(b.1916d.2003)Lieutenantgovernors7Jun19622Sep1963TumkurSivasankar(b.1902d.....)2Sep19638Dec1964MulkRajSachdev(b.1903d.1964)12Dec196424Feb1965HariSharma(b.1910)24Feb196518Apr1967KashinathRaghunathDamle(b.1906)18Apr196716Nov1972NakulSen(b.1910)16Nov197216Nov1977S.K.Banerjee(b.1913d.2010)16Nov197731Mar1981PratapSinghGill(b.1916d.2000)31Mar198130Aug1982Jagmohan(b.1927)30Aug198224Feb1983IdrisHasanLatif(1sttime)(b.1923)(acting)24Feb19833Jul1984KershaspTehmuraspSatarawala(b.1916d.2001)4Jul198424Sep1984IdrisHasanLatif(2ndtime)(s.a.)(acting)24Sep198429May1987GopalSingh(b.1917d.1990)Governors30May198718Jul1989GopalSingh(s.a.)18Jul198918Mar1991KhurshidAlamKhan(b.1919d.2013)18Mar19914Apr1994BhanuPrakashSingh(b.1929)4Apr19944Aug1994B.Rachaiah(b.1922d.2000)4Aug199416Jun1995GopalaRamanujam(b.1915d.2001)16Jun199519Jul1996RomeshBhandari(b.1928d.2013)19Jul199616Jan1998P.CherianAlexander(b.1921d.2011)16Jan199819Apr1998TumkurRamaiyaSatishChandran(b.1929d.2009)19Apr199826Nov1999JackFrederickRalphJacob(b.1923)26Nov199926Oct2002MohammedFazal(1sttime)(b.1922d.2014)

  • 26Oct20022Jul2004KidarNathSahani(b.1926d.2012)2Jul200417Jul2004MohammedFazal(2ndtime)(s.a.)17Jul200421Jul2008SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(b.1931)21Jul20088Sep2011ShivinderSinghSidhu(b.1929)8Sep20114May2012KateekalSankaranarayanan(b.1932)4May201212Jul2014BharatVirWanchoo(b.1951)12Jul20147Aug2014MargaretAlva(f)(b.1942)7Aug201431Aug2014OmPrakashKohli(b.1935)31Aug2014MridulaSinha(f)(b.1942)

    Chiefministers8Jun19622Dec1966DayanandB.Bandodkar(1sttime)(b.1911d.1973)MGP2Dec19665Apr1967President'srule5Apr196712Aug1973DayanandB.Bandodkar(2ndtime)(s.a.)MGP12Aug197327Apr1979ShashikalaG.Kakodkar(f)(b.1935)MGP27Apr197916Jan1980President'srule16Jan198027Mar1990PratapsingRane(1sttime)(b.1939)INC27Mar199014Apr1990ChurchillBrazAlemao(b.1949)PDF14Apr199014Dec1990LuisProtoBarbosa(b.1927d.2011)PDF14Dec199025Jan1991President'srule25Jan199118May1993RaviS.Naik(1sttime)(b.1946)INC18May19932Apr1994WilfredD'Souza(1sttime)(b.1927)INC2Apr19948Apr1994RaviS.Naik(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC8Apr199416Dec1994WilfredD'Souza(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC16Dec199430Jul1998PratapsingRane(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC30Jul199826Nov1998WilfredD'Souza(3rdtime)(s.a.)GRCP26Nov19989Feb1999LuizinhoFaleiro(1sttime)(b.1951)INC9Feb19999Jun1999President'srule9Jun199924Nov1999LuizinhoFaleiro(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC24Nov199924Oct2000FranciscoSardinha(b.1946)GPC24Oct20002Feb2005ManoharParrikar(1sttime)(b.1955)BJP2Feb20054Mar2005PratapsingRane(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC4Mar20057Jun2005President'srule7Jun20058Jun2007PratapsingRane(4thtime)(s.a.)INC8Jun20079Mar2012DigambarKamat(b.1954)INC9Mar20128Nov2014ManoharParrikar(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP8Nov2014LaxmikantParsekar(b.1956)BJP

    Gujarat

    1May1960GujaratcreatedfrompartofBombaystate(seeMaharashtra).

    Governors1May19601Aug1965MehdiNawazJung(b.1894d.1967)1Aug19657Dec1967NityanandKanungo(b.1900d.1988)7Dec196726Dec1967P.N.Bhagwati(1sttime)(acting)(b.1921)26Dec196717Mar1973ShrimanNarayan(b.1912d.1978)

  • 17Mar19734Apr1973P.N.Bhagwati(2ndtime)(acting)(s.a.)4Apr197314Aug1978KambanthodathKunhanVishwanatham(b.1914d.1992)14Aug19786Aug1983SharadaMukherjee(f)(b.1919)6Aug198326Apr1984KizhekethilMathewChandy(b.1920d.1998)26Apr198426Feb1986BrajKumarNehru(b.1909d.2001)26Feb19862May1990RamKrishnaTrivedi(b.1921)2May199021Dec1990MahipalShastri(b.1924)21Dec19901Jul1995SarupSingh(b.1917d.2003)1Jul19951Mar1996NareshChandra(b.1934)1Mar199625Apr1998KrishnaPalSingh(b.1922d.1999)25Apr199816Jan1999AnshumanSingh(b.1935)16Jan199918Mar1999K.G.Balakrishnan(acting)(b.1945)18Mar19997May2003SunderSinghBhandari(b.1921d.2005)7May20032Jul2004KailashpatiMishra(b.1926d.2012)2Jul200424Jul2004BalramJakhar(b.1923)24Jul200430Jul2009NawalKishoreSharma(b.1925d.2012)30Jul200927Nov2009SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(b.1931)27Nov20097Jul2014KamlaBeniwal(f)(b.1927)7Jul201416Jul2014MargaretAlva(f)(b.1942)16Jul2014OmPrakashKohli(b.1935)

    Chiefministers1May196018Sep1963JivrajN.Mehta(b.1887d.1978)INC18Sep196319Sep1965BalwantraiMehta(b.1899d.1965)INC19Sep19651Oct1965President'srule1Oct196513May1971HitendraKanaiyalalDesai(b.1915d.1993)INC13May197117Aug1972President'srule17Aug197220Jul1973GanshyamBhaiOza(b.1911d.2002)INC20Jul19739Feb1974ChimanbhaiPatel(1sttime)(b.1929d.1994)INC9Feb197418Jun1975President'srule18Jun197512Mar1976BabhubaiJashbaiPatel(1sttime)(b.1911d.2002)JM12Mar197624Dec1976President'srule24Dec197611Apr1977MadhavsinhSolanki(1sttime)(b.1927)INC11Apr197717Feb1980BabhubaiJashbaiPatel(2ndtime)(s.a.)JP17Feb19807Jun1980President'srule7Jun19806Aug1985MadhavsinhSolanki(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI6Aug198510Dec1989AmarsinhChaudhury(b.1941d.2004)INC10Dec19894Mar1990MadhavsinhSolanki(3rdtime)(s.a.)INCI4Mar199017Feb1994ChimanbhaiPatel(2ndtime)(s.a.)JD17Feb199414Mar1995ChhabildasMehta(b.1925d.2008)INC19Mar199521Oct1995KeshubhaiPatel(1sttime)(b.1929)BJP21Oct199519Sep1996SureshChandraMehta(b.1936)BJP19Sep199628Oct1996President'srule28Oct199628Oct1997ShankersinhVaghela(b.1940)RJP28Oct19974Mar1998DilipParikh(b.1937)RJP4Mar19987Oct2001KeshubhaiPatel(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP7Oct200122May2014NarendraModi(b.1950)BJP22May2014AnandibenPatel(f)(b.1941)BJP

    Kutch

    1948Province26Jan1950State1Nov1956PartofBombay.

  • 1May1960PartofGujarat.

    Chiefcommissioners1Jun19481952ChhotalalKhovshaldanDesai(b.1893d.19..)19521956SambhajiraoAppasahebGhatge(b.1901d.....)

    Saurashtra

    1948State1Nov1956PartofBombay.1May1960PartofGujarat

    RajpramukhsJun19481948SirKrishnakumarsinhjiBhavsinhji(b.1912d.1965)(acting)194831Oct1956DigvijaysinhjiRanjitsinhjiJadeja(b.1895d.1966)

    Chiefministers1948Dec1954UchharangrayNavalshankarDhebar(b.1905d.1977)INC19Dec19541956RasiklalUmedchandParikh(b.1910d.1982)INC

    Haryana

    1Nov1966HaryanastatecreatedfrompartofPunjab.

    Governors1Nov196615Sep1967DharmaVira(b.1906d.2000)15Sep196727Mar1976BirendraNarayanChhakravarti(b.1904d.1976)27Mar197614Aug1976RanjitSinghNarula(b.1915d.2005)14Aug197624Sep1977JaisukhLalHathi(b.1909d.1982)24Sep197710Dec1979HarcharanSinghBrar(b.1922d.2009)10Dec197928Feb1980S.S.Sandhawalia(b.1925d.2007)28Feb198014Jun1984GanpatraoDevjiTapase(b.1908d.1991)14Jun198422Feb1988SaiyidMuzaffarHusainBurney(b.1923d.2014)22Feb19887Feb1990HariAnandBarari(b.1929)7Feb199014Jun1995DhanikLalMandal(b.1932)14Jun199519Jun2000MahabirPrasad(b.1939d.2010)19Jun20002Jul2004BabuParmanand(b.1932d.2008)2Jul20047Jul2004OmPrakashVerma(b.1937)7Jul200427Jul2009AkhlaqurRahmanKidwai(b.1920)27Jul200926Jul2014JagannathPahadia(b.1932)27Jul2014KaptanSinghSolanki(b.1939)

    Chiefministers1Nov196624Mar1967BhagwatDayalSharma(b.1918d.1993)INC24Mar196721Nov1967RaoBirendraSingh(b.1921d.2009)VHP21Nov196721May1968President'srule21May19687Dec1975BansiLal(1sttime)(b.1927d.2006)INC7Dec197521May1977BanarsiDasGupta(1sttime)(b.1917d.2007)INC

  • 21May197728Jun1979DeviLal(1sttime)(b.1914d.2001)JP28Jun19795Jul1985BhajanLal(1sttime)(b.1930d.2011)JP;1980INCI5Jul198519Jun1987BansiLal(2ndtime)(s.a.)JD19Jun198717Jul1987President'srule17Jul19872Dec1989DeviLal(2ndtime)(s.a.)JP2Dec198922May1990OmPrakashChautala(1sttime)(b.1935)JD22May199012Jul1990BanarsiDasGupta(2ndtime)(s.a.)JD12Jul199017Jul1990OmPrakashChautala(2ndtime)(s.a.)JD17Jul199022Mar1991HukamSingh(b.1926d.2015)JD23Mar19916Apr1991OmPrakashChautala(3rdtime)(s.a.)SJP6Apr199123Jul1991President'srule23Jul199111May1996BhajanLal(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI11May199624Jul1999BansiLal(3rdtime)(s.a.)HVP24Jul19995Mar2005OmPrakashChautala(4thtime)(s.a.)INLD5Mar200526Oct2014BhupinderSinghHooda(b.1947)INC26Oct2014ManoharLalKhattar(b.1954)BJP

    HimachalPradesh

    15Apr1948Province26Jan1950State1Nov1956Unionterritory25Jan1971State

    ChiefCommissioners25Apr19489Jan1950N.C.Mehta10Jan195029Mar1951EdwardPenderelMenon(b.1905d.1987)30Mar195129Feb1952BhagwanSahay(b.1905d.1986)Lieutenantgovernors1Mar19521Jan1955K.S.Himmatsinhji(b.1897d.1973)1Jan195514Aug1963BajrangBahadurSinghBhadri(b.1906d.1973)14Aug196326Feb1966BhagwanSahay(s.a.)26Feb19667May1967VenkataVishwanathan(b.1909d.1987)7May196716May1967OmPrakash16May196725Jan1971KanwarBahadurSingh(b.1910d.2007)Governors25Jan197117Feb1977SubramaniamChhakravarti(b.1910)17Feb197726Aug1981AminuddinAhmadKhan(b.1911d.1983)26Aug198116Apr1983AsokaNathBanerji(b.1917)16Apr19838Mar1986HokisheSema(b.1921d.2007)8Mar198617Apr1986PrabodhDinkarraoDesai(acting)(b.1930d.2004)17Apr19861Dec1987RustomKhusroShampoorjeeGandhi(b.1924d.2014)(1sttime)2Dec198710Jan1988SayedMuzaffarHussainBurney(b.1923d.2014)11Jan198819Dec1989RustomKhushroShapoorjeeGhandhi(s.a.)(2ndtime)20Dec198912Jan1990HariAnandBarari(b.1929)13Jan199015Feb1990RustomKhushroShapoorjeeGhandhi(s.a.)(3rdtime)16Feb199020Dec1990B.Rachaiah(b.1922d.2000)

  • 20Dec199030Jan1993VirendraVerma(b.1916d.2009)30Jan199311Feb1993SurendraNath(1sttime)(b.1926?d.1994)11Feb199330Jun1993BaliRamBhagat(b.1922d.2011)30Jun199327Nov1993GulsherAhmed(b.1921d.2002)27Nov199310Jul1994SurendraNath(2ndtime)(s.a.)10Jul199430Jul1994ViswanathanRatnam(b.1932)30Jul199418Sep1995SudhakarraoNaik(b.1934d.2001)18Sep199517Nov1995MahabirPrasad(1sttime)(b.1939d.2010)17Nov199523Apr1996SheilaKaul(f)(b.1915)23Apr199626Jul1997MahabirPrasad(2ndtime)(s.a.)26Jul19972Dec1999V.S.RamaDevi(f)(b.1934d.2013)2Dec199924Nov2000VishnuKantShastri(b.1929d.2005)24Nov20008May2003SurajBhan(b.1928d.2006)8May200319Jul2008VishnuSadashivKokje(b.1939)19Jul200825Jan2010PrabhaRau(f)(b.1935d.2010)25Jan201026Jan2015UrmilaSingh(f)(b.1946)28Jan2015KalyanSingh(b.1932)

    Chiefministers8Mar195231Oct1956YeshwantSinghParmar(1sttime)(b.1906d.1981)INC31Oct19561Jul1963President'srule1Jul196328Jan1977YeshwantSinghParmar(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC28Jan197722Jun1977RamLalChauhan(1sttime)(b.1929d.2002)INC22Jun197714Feb1980ShantaKumar(1sttime)(b.1934)JP14Feb19808Apr1983ThakurRamLal(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC8Apr19835Mar1990VirbhadraSingh(1sttime)(b.1934)INC5Mar19903Dec1993ShantaKumar(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP3Dec199324Mar1998VirbhadraSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC24Mar19986Mar2003PremKumarDhumal(1sttime)(b.1944)BJP6Mar200330Dec2007VirbhadraSingh(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC30Dec200725Dec2012PremKumarDhumal(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP25Dec2012VirbhadraSingh(4thtime)(s.a.)INC

    Bilaspur

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State1Jul1954PartofHimachalPradesh.

    Chiefcommissioners3Mar19481950TikkaAnandChand(b.1913d.1983)19501952K.S.Himmatsinhji(b.1897d.1973)

    JammuandKashmir:seeunderentryforIndia

    Jharkhand

  • 15Nov2000JharkhandstatecreatedfrompartofBihar.

    Governors15Nov20001Feb2002PrabhatKumar(b.1940)1Feb200215Jul2002VinodChandraPande(b.1932d.2005)15Jul200212Jun2003M.RamaJois(b.1931)12Jun200310Dec2004VedPrakashMarwah(b.1932)10Dec200426Jul2009SyedSibteyRazi(b.1939)26Jul200922Jan2010K.Sankaranarayanan(b.1932)22Jan20104Sep2011M.O.HasanFarookMaricar(b.1937d.2012)4Sep2011SyedAhmad(b.1945)

    Chiefministers15Nov200018Mar2003BabulalMarandi(b.1958)BJP18Mar20032Mar2005ArjunMunda(1sttime)(b.1968)BJP2Mar200512Mar2005ShibuSoren(1sttime)(b.1944)JMM12Mar200518Sep2006ArjunMunda(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP18Sep200627Aug2008MadhuKoda(b.1971)Nonparty27Aug200819Jan2009ShibuSoren(2ndtime)(s.a.)JMM19Jan200930Dec2009President'srule30Dec20091Jun2010ShibuSoren(3rdtime)(s.a.)JMM1Jun201011Sep2010President'srule11Sep201018Jan2013ArjunMunda(3rdtime)(s.a.)BJP18Jan201313Jul2013President'srule13Jul201328Dec2014HemantSoren(b.1975)JMM28Dec2014RaghubarDas(b.1955)BJP

    Karnataka

    15Aug1947Mysorestate1Nov1973RenamedKarnataka.

    Rajpramukh19471Nov1956JayachamarajendraWodeyar(b.1919d.1974)Governors1Nov19564May1964JayachamarajendraWodeyar(s.a.)4May19642Apr1965SatyavantMallannahSrinagesh(b.1903d.1977)2Apr196513May1967VaharagiriVenkataGiri(b.1894d.1980)13May196730Aug1969GopalSwarupPathak(b.1896d.1982)30Aug196922Oct1969A.R.SomnathIyer(b.1907d.1991)23Oct19691Feb1972DharmaVira(b.1906d.2000)1Feb197210Jan1976MohanLalSukhadia(b.1916d.1982)10Jan19762Aug1977UmaShankarDikshit(b.1901d.1991)2Aug197715Apr1983GovindNarain(b.1916d.2012)16Apr198325Feb1988AsokaNathBanerji(b.1917)26Feb19885Feb1990PendekantiVenkatasubbaiah(b.1921d.1993)5Feb19907May1990S.Mohan(b.1930)8May19906Jan1991BhanuPratapSingh(b.1917d.2006)6Jan19912Dec1999KhurshidAlamKhan(1sttime)(b.1919d.2013)

  • 30May199227Jun1992SamPirojBharucha(b.1937)28Jun199230Nov1995KhurshedAlamKhan(2ndtime)(s.a.)1Dec199521Dec1995MadhavLaxmanPendse(b.1935)22Dec19951Dec1999KhurshedAlamKhan(3rdtime)(s.a.)2Dec199921Aug2002V.S.RamaDevi(f)(b.1934d.2013)21Aug200221Aug2007T.N.Chaturvedi(b.1928)21Aug200729Jun2009RameshwarThakur(b.1927d.2015)29Jun200928Jun2014HansrajBhardwaj(b.1937)29Jun20141Sep2014KonijetiRosaiah(b.1933)1Sep2014VajubhaiRudabhaiVala(b.1938)

    Chiefministers194625Oct1947ArcotRamaswamiMudaliar(b.1887d.1976)25Oct194730Mar1952KysasamballyChengalarayaReddy(b.1902d.1976)INC30Mar195219Aug1956KengalHanumanthaiah(b.1908d.1980)INC19Aug19561Nov1956KadidalManjappa(b.1910d.1992)INC1Nov195616May1958SiddhavvanahalliNijalingappa(b.1902d.2000)INC(1sttime)16May19589Mar1962BasappaDanappaJatti(b.1912d.2002)INC9Mar196214Mar1964President'srule14Mar196221Jun1962ShivalingappaRudrappaKanthi(b.1908d.1969)INC21Jun19623Mar1967SiddhavvanahalliNijalingappa(s.a.)INC(2ndtime)3Mar196729May1968President'srule29May196827Mar1971VeerendraPatil(1sttime)(b.1924d.1997)INC27Mar197120Mar1972President'srule20Mar197231Dec1977DevarajUrs(1sttime)(b.1915d.1982)INC31Dec197728Feb1978President'srule28Feb197812Jan1980DevarajUrs(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC12Jan198010Jan1983R.GunduRao(b.1936d.1993)INC10Jan198313Aug1988RamakrishnaHegde(b.1926d.2004)JP13Aug198821Apr1989SomappaRoyappaBommai(b.1924d.2007)JP21Apr198930Nov1989President'srule30Nov198910Oct1990VeerendraPatil(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC10Oct199017Oct1990President'srule17Oct199020Nov1992S.Bangarappa(b.1933d.2011)INCI20Nov199211Dec1994M.VeerappaMoily(b.1940)INCI11Dec199431May1996H.D.DeveGowda(b.1933)JD31May199611Oct1999JayadevappaHallapaPatel(b.1930d.2000)JD11Oct199928May2004SomanahalliMallaiahKrishna(b.1932)INC28May20043Feb2006DharamSingh(b.1936)INC3Feb20069Oct2007H.D.Kumaraswamy(b.1959)JDS9Oct200712Nov2007President'srule12Nov200720Nov2007B.S.Yeddyurappa(1sttime)(b.1943)BJP20Nov200730May2008President'srule30May20084Aug2011B.S.Yeddyurappa(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP4Aug201112Jul2012D.V.SadanandaGowda(b.1953)BJP12Jul201213May2013JagadishShivappaShettar(b.1955)BJP13May2013K.Siddaramaiah(b.1948)INC

    Coorg

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State1Nov1956PartofMysore.

  • Chiefcommissioners19471949KetoliraChengappa(b.1878d.19..)19491950C.T.Mudaliar19501956KanwarDayaSinghBedi(b.1899d.....)

    Chiefminister17Mar19521956CheppudiraMuthanaPoonacha(b.1910d.1990)INC

    Kerala

    1Jul1949TravancoreCochinstateformed.1Nov1956RenamedKerala.

    Rajpramukh1Jul194931Oct1956SirBalaRamaVarmaII(b.1912d.1991)Governors22Nov19561Jul1960BurgulaRamakrishnaRao(b.1899d.1967)1Jul19602Apr1965VarahagiriVenkataGiri(b.1894d.1980)2Apr19656Feb1966AjitPrasadJain(b.1902d.1977)6Feb196615May1967BhagwanSahay(b.1905d.1986)15May19671Apr1973VenkataVishwanathan(b.1909d.1987)1Apr197314Oct1977NiranjaNathWanchoo(b.1910d.1982)14Oct197727Oct1982JyotiVenkatachalam(f)(b.1917)27Oct198223Feb1988ParthasarathyRamachandran(b.1921d.2001)23Feb198812Feb1990RamDulariSinha(f)(b.1922d.1994)12Feb199020Dec1990SarupSingh(b.1917d.2003)20Dec199012Nov1995B.Rachaiah(b.1922d.2000)12Nov19954May1996PunjalaShivShanker(b.1929)4May199625Jan1997KhurshidAlamKhan(b.1919d.2013)25Jan199718Apr2002SukhdevSinghKang(b.1931d.2012)18Apr200223Feb2004SikanderBakht(b.1918d.2004)25Feb200423Jun2004T.N.Chaturvedi(b.1928)23Jun200410Jul2008RaghunandanLalBhatia(b.1921)10Jul20088Sep2011R.S.Gavai(b.1929)8Sep201126Jan2012M.O.HasanFarookMaricar(b.1937d.2012)16Jan201223Mar2013HansrajBhardwaj(1sttime)(b.1937)(acting[forMaricarto26Jan2012])23Mar20135Mar2014NikhilKumar(b.1941)5Mar201411Mar2014HansrajBhardwaj(2ndtime)(acting)(s.a.)11Mar20145Sep2014SheilaDikshit(f)(b.1938)5Sep2014PalanisamySathasivam(b.1949)

    ChiefministersofKochin1Sep1947Oct1947PanampillyGovindaMenon(b.1908d.1970)Nonparty27Oct194720Sep1948T.K.NairNonparty20Sep194830Jun1949E.IkkandaWarrier(b.1890d.1977)NonpartyChiefministersofTravancore

  • 19Aug194724Mar1948P.G.N.Unnithan(b.1898d.1965)Nonparty24Mar194820Oct1948PattomThanuPillai(1sttime)(b.1885d.1970)INC20Oct194830Jun1949T.K.NarayanPillai(b.1890d.1971)INCChiefministers1Jul1949Jan1951T.K.NarayanPillai(s.a.)INCJan195112Mar1952C.Kesavan(b.1891d.1969)INC12Mar195216Mar1954AnapparambulJosephJohn(b.1893d.1957)INC16Mar195410Feb1955PattomThanuPillai(2ndtime)(s.a.)PSP10Feb195523Mar1956PanampillyGovindaMenon(s.a.)INC23Mar19565Apr1957President'srule5Apr195731Jul1959ElamkulamM.Sankaran(b.1909d.1998)CPINamboodiripad(1sttime)31Jul195922Feb1960President'srule22Feb196025Sep1962PattomThanuPillai(3rdtime)(s.a.)PSP25Sep19629Sep1964R.Sankar(b.1908d.1972)INC5Mar19671Nov1969ElamkulamM.Sankaran(s.a.)CPIMNamboodiripad(2ndtime)1Nov19694Aug1970ChelathAchuthaMenon(1sttime)(b.1913d.1991)CPI4Aug19704Oct1970President'srule4Oct197011Apr1977ChelathAchuthaMenon(2ndtime)(s.a.)CPI11Apr197725Apr1977K.Karunakaran(1sttime)(b.1918d.2010)INC25Apr197729Oct1978A.K.Antony(1sttime)(b.1940)INC29Oct197811Oct1979P.K.VasudevanNair(b.1926d.2005)CPI11Oct19795Dec1979C.H.MohammedKoya(b.1927d.1983)IUML5Dec197925Jan1980President'srule25Jan198020Oct1981E.K.Nayanar(1sttime)(b.1919d.2004)CPIM20Oct198118Dec1981President'srule28Dec198117Mar1982K.Karunakaran(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI17Mar198224May1982President'srule24May198225Mar1987K.Karunakaran(3rdtime)(s.a.)INCI26Mar198723Jun1991E.K.Nayanar(2ndtime)(s.a.)CPIM24Jun199122Mar1995K.Karunakaran(4thtime)(s.a.)INC22Mar199520May1996A.K.Antony(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC20May199618May2001E.K.Nayanar(3rdtime)(s.a.)CPIM18May200131Aug2004A.K.Antony(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC31Aug200418May2006OommenChandy(1sttime)(b.1943)INC18May200618May2011VelikkakathuS.Achuthanandan(b.1923)CPIM18May2011OommenChandy(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC

    Lakshadweep

    May14981545Portugueseoccupation(Laquedivas).af.1545IslandsgrantedinjagirtoKannanur(Cannanore)byChirakkal.....Kannanurassertsitsindependence.17871799IslandsareannexedbyTipooTip(seeMysore).1791Southern(Laccadive)islands,alongwithKannanur,occupiedbyBritishEastIndiaCo.

  • 18Mar1792SouthernislandsarecededtoBritishEastIndiaCo.bytheTreatyofSeringapatam.30Oct1796LaccadiveIslandsrestoredtoCannanore,underU.K.protection.1799Northern(Amindivi)IslandsannexedbyBritishEastIndiaCo.,aspartofMadras.18541864LaccadiveIslandssequestratedforarrearsbyBritishIndia.3Apr18756Feb1909LaccadiveIslandsagainsequestratedforarrearsbyBritishIndia.6Feb1909LaccadiveandMinicoyIslandsareformallycededtoU.K.byKannanur(retroactiveto1Jul1905)(partofMadras).15Aug1947PartofIndianstateofMadras(seeTamilNadu).1Nov1956Laccadive,Minicoy,andAmindiviIslandsunionterritory(separatedfromMadras[seeTamilNadu]).1Nov1973RenamedLakshadweepunionterritory.

    Administrators1Nov19567Nov1956U.R.Panicker8Nov195621Sep1958S.Mony22Sep19585Dec1961C.K.BalakrishnanNair6Dec19618Apr1965M.Ramunny(b.1915d.2009)9Apr196531Oct1969C.H.Naire1Nov196930Apr1973K.D.Menon22May197321Jun1975WungmareoShaiza(b.1926d.2012)22Jun197514Feb1977M.C.Verma21Feb197730Jul1978S.D.Lakhar31Jul197815Jun1981P.M.Nair(b.1944)15Jun198121Jul1982PradipMehra(b.1952)21Jul19829Jul1985OmeshSaigal(b.1941)9Jul19858Sep1987JagdishSagar(b.1944)8Sep198731Jan1990WajahatHabibulla(b.1945)1Feb19901May1990PradipSingh2May19903May1992S.P.Aggarwal(b.1945)4May19929Sep1994SatishChandra9Sep199414Jun1996G.S.Chima1Aug19961Jun1999RajeevTalwar(b.1954)1Jun199920Aug1999RajaniKantVerma(1sttime)(b.1959)21Aug199930Apr2001ChamanLal(b.1938)1May200118Jun2001RajaniKantVerma(2ndtime)(s.a.)19Jun200120Jun2004K.S.Mehra21Jun200421Nov2004SanjayPratapSingh(b.1961)22Nov200411Aug2006ParimalRai(b.1962)11Aug200621Dec2006RajendraKumar(b.1966)22Dec200616May2009B.V.Selvaraj(b.1953)27May200912Jul2009SatyaGopal(b.1962)13Jul200915Jun2011J.K.Dadoo(b.1957)11Jul20112Nov2012AmarNath(b.1966)7Nov2012H.RajeshPrasad(b.1967)

    MadhyaPradesh

    15Aug1947CentralProvincesandBerar

  • 1Nov1956MergedwithMadhyaBharat,Bhopal,andVindhyaPradeshtoformMadhyaPradeshstate.Governors19471952MangaldasMancharamPakvasa(b.1882d.1968)195214Jun1957B.PattabhiSitaramayya(b.1880d.1959)14Jun195711Feb1965HariVinayahaPataskar(b.1892d.1970)11Feb19658Mar1971KysasamballyChengalarayaReddy(b.1902d.1976)(1sttime)3Feb19669Feb1966P.V.Dixit(acting)10Feb19668Mar1971KysasamballyChengalarayaReddy(s.a.)(2ndtime)8Mar197114Oct1977SatyaNarayanSinha(b.1900d.1983)14Oct197717Aug1978NiranjaNathWanchoo(b.1910d.1982)17Aug197830Apr1980CheppudiraMuthanaPoonacha(b.1910d.1990)30Apr198026May1981BhagwatDayalSharma(1sttime)(b.1918d.1993)26May19817Sep1981GuruPrasannaSingh(1sttime)(b.1922)(acting)7Sep198121Sep1983BhagwatDayalSharma(2ndtime)(s.a.)21Sep19837Oct1983GuruPrasannaSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)(acting)8Oct198315May1984BhagwatDayalSharma(3rdtime)(s.a.)15May19841Dec1987KizhekethilMathewChandy(b.1920d.1998)(1sttime)1Dec198729Dec1987NarayanDuttaOjha(acting)(b.1926)30Dec198731Mar1989KizhekethilMathewChandy(s.a.)(2ndtime)31Mar19896Feb1990SarlaGrewal(f)(b.1927d.2002)6Feb199024Jun1993KunwarMahmoodAliKhan(b.1920d.2001)24Jun199322Apr1998MohammedShafiQureshi(b.1929)22Apr19987May2003BhaiMahavir(b.1922)7May20031May2004RamPrakashGupta(b.1923d.2004)2May200430Jun2004KrishnaMohanSeth(acting)(b.1939)30Jun200430Jun2009BalramJakhar(b.1923)30Jun20098Sep2011RameshwarThakur(b.1927d.2015)8Sep2011RamNareshYadav(b.1928)

    Chiefministers15Aug194731Dec1956RaviShankarShukla(b.1877d.1956)INC1Jan195731Jan1957BhagwantraoMandloi(1sttime)(b.1892d.1977)INC31Jan195711Mar1962KailashNathiKatju(b.1887d.1968)INC11Mar196230Sep1963BhagwantraoMandloi(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC30Sep196330Jul1967DwarkaPrasadMishra(b.1901d.1988)INC30Jul196713Mar1969GovindNarayanSingh(b.1920d.2005)INC13Mar196926Mar1969RajaNareshChandraSingh(b.1908d.1987)INC26Mar196929Jan1972ShyamaCharanShukla(1sttime)(b.1925d.2007)INC29Jan197223Dec1975PrakashChandraSethi(b.1920d.1996)INC23Dec197529Apr1977ShyamaCharanShukla(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC29Apr197726Jun1977President'srule26Jun197718Jan1978KailashChandraJoshi(b.1929)JP18Jan197820Jan1980VirendraKumarSakhlecha(b.1930d.1999)JP20Jan198017Feb1980SunderlalPatwa(1sttime)(b.1925)JP17Feb19809Jun1980President'srule9Jun198014Mar1985ArjunSingh(1sttime)(b.1930d.2011)INCI14Mar198514Feb1988MotilalVora(1sttime)(b.1928)INC14Feb198825Jan1989ArjunSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI25Jan19899Dec1989MotilalVora(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC

  • 9Dec19895Mar1990ShyamaCharanShukla(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC5Mar199015Dec1992SunderlalPatwa(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP15Dec19927Dec1993President'srule7Dec19938Dec2003DigvijaySingh(b.1947)INC8Dec200323Aug2004UmaBharti(f)(b.1959)BJP23Aug200429Nov2005BabulalGaur(b.1930)BJP29Nov2005ShivrajSinghChauhan(b.1959)BJP

    MadhyaBharat

    1948State1Nov1956PartofMadhyaPradesh.

    Rajpramukh28May194831Oct1956SirGeorgeJivajiRaoScindia(b.1916d.1961)

    ChiefministersJan1948May1949LiladharJoshiINCMay194918Oct1950GopikrishnanVijayavargiya(b.1905d.1984)INC18Oct19503Mar1952TakhatmalJain(1sttime)INC3Mar195216Apr1955MishrilalGangwal(b.1902d.1981)INC16Apr195531Oct1956TakhatmalJain(2ndtime)INC

    Bhopal

    1Jun1949State1Nov1956PartofMadhyaPradesh.

    Chiefcommissioners1Jun19491Apr1950N.P.Bonnerji1Apr19501952VenkataVishwanathan(b.1909d.1987)1952ChandraChhatra1952Dec1954BhagwanSahay(b.1905d.1986)Dec19541956KalkaPrasadBhargava(b.1908d.....)

    PrimeministersApr1948Dec1948OudhNarainBisaryaDec1948Jan1949PanditChaturNarainMalviya(b.1900d.1985)Jan1949Mar1952President'sruleChiefministerMar19521Nov1956ShankarDayalSharma(b.1918d.1999)INC

    VindhyaPradesh

    1948State1Nov1956PartofMadhyaPradesh.

    Rajpramukh19481949MartandSingh(b.1923d.1995)Chiefcommissioners19491950S.N.Mehta(b.1904d.....)1950Mar1952V.K.B.PillaiLieutenantgovernorsMar1952Jan1956K.Santhanam(b.1895d.1980)Jan195631Oct1956TirumalaRao(b.1901d.1970)

  • PrimeministerApr1948Apr1949AwadeshPratapSingh(b.1888d.1987)INCApr194913Mar1952President'sruleChiefminister13Mar195231Oct1956ShambhunathShukla(b.1903d.....)INC

    Maharashtra

    15Aug1947Bombayprovince26Jan1950State1May1960DividedintoMaharashtraandGujarat.

    Governors15Aug19476Jan1948SirDavidJohnColville,(b.1894d.1954)BaronClydesmuirJan194830May1952RajaSirMaharajSingh(b.1878d.1959)30May19525Dec1954SirGirjaShankarBajpai(b.1891d.1954)5Dec19541Mar1955MangaldasMancharamPakvasa(b.1882d.1968)(1sttime)1Mar195514Oct1956HarekrushnaMahatab(b.1899d.1987)14Oct195610Dec1956MohomedaliCurrimChagla(b.1900d.1981)10Dec195616Apr1962SriPrakasa(b.1890d.1971)16Apr19626Oct1962P.Subbarayan(b.1889d.1963)6Oct19625Dec1962H.K.Chainani(1sttime)(b.1904d.1965)5Dec19625Sep1963VijayaLakshmiPandit(f)(b.1900d.1990)(1sttime)5Sep196318Dec1963H.K.Chainani(2ndtime)(s.a.)18Dec19638Oct1964VijayaLakshmiPandit(f)(s.a.)(2ndtime)8Oct196414Nov1964MangaldasMancharamPakvasa(s.a.)(2ndtime)14Nov19649Nov1969P.V.Cherian(b.1893d.1969)9Nov196926Feb1970SohrabPashotanKotval26Feb197011Dec1976AliYavarJungBahadur(b.1905d.1976)12Dec197630Apr1977RamanlalManeklalKantawala(b.1916d.1992)30Apr19773Nov1980SadiqAli(b.1910d.2001)3Nov19805Feb1982OmPrakashMehra(b.1919)6Mar198218Apr1985IdrisHasanLatif(b.1923)18Apr198530May1985K.MadhavaReddy(b.1923d.1997)30May19853Apr1986KonaPrabhakaraRao(b.1916d.1990)3Apr19863Sep1987ShankarDayalSharma(b.1918d.1999)3Sep19876Nov1987SharadchandraKrishnaprasadDesai(b.1928)6Nov198720Feb1988ChittatoshMookerjee(b.1929)20Feb198815Feb1989KasuBrahmanandaReddy(b.1909d.1994)15Feb198912Jan1993ChidambaramSubramaniam(b.1910d.2000)12Jan199313Jul2002P.CherianAlexander(b.1921d.2011)

  • 13Jul200210Oct2002C.K.Thakkar(acting)(b.1943)10Oct20026Dec2004MohammadFazal(b.1922d.2014)6Dec20049Mar2008S.M.Krishna(b.1932)9Mar200822Jan2010SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(b.1931)22Jan201024Aug2014K.Sankaranarayanan(b.1932)24Aug201430Aug2014OmPrakashKohli(b.1935)30Aug2014C.VidyasagarRao(b.1942)

    Chiefministers15Aug194721Apr1952BalGangadharKher(b.1888d.1957)INC21Apr19521Nov1956MorarjiDesai(b.1896d.1995)INC1Nov195619Nov1962YeshwantraoBalwantraoChavan(b.1913d.1984)INC19Nov196225Nov1963MarotraoSambashioKannamwar(b.1900d.1963)INC5Dec196320Feb1975VasantraoPhulsingNaik(b.1913d.1979)INC20Feb19751Apr1977ShankarraoBhaoraoChavan(b.1920d.2004)INC(1sttime)1Apr197718Jul1978VasantraoPatil(1sttime)(b.1917d.1989)INC18Jul19789Jun1980SharadPawar(1sttime)(b.1940)PDF9Jun198020Jan1982AbdulRahmanAntulay(b.1929d.2014)INC20Jan19822Feb1983BabasahebAnantraoBhosale(b.1921d.2007)INC2Feb19832Jun1985VasantraoPatil(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI2Jun198513Mar1986ShivajiraoPatilNilangekar(b.1931)INC13Mar198624Jun1988ShankarraoBhaoraoChavan(s.a.)INC(2ndtime)25Jun198825Jun1991SharadPawar(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC25Jun19913Mar1993SudhakarraoNaik(b.1934d.2001)INC3Mar199314Mar1995SharadPawar(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC14Mar19951Feb1999ManoharJoshi(b.1937)SHS1Feb199918Oct1999NarayanRane(b.1952)SHS18Oct199918Jan2003VilasraoDadojiDeshmukh(1sttime)(b.1945d.2012)INC18Jan20031Nov2004SushilKumarShinde(b.1941)INC1Nov20048Dec2008VilasraoDadojiDeshmukh(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC8Dec200811Nov2010AshokChavan(b.1958)INC11Nov201028Sep2014PrithvirajChavan(b.1946)INC28Sep201431Oct2014President'srule31Oct2014DevendraGangadharraoFadnavis(b.1970)BJP

    Manipur

    15Oct1949State1Nov1956Unionterritory21Jan1972State

    Chiefcommissioners15Oct194918Oct1949RawalAmarSingh18Oct19496Apr1951HimmatSinghK.Maheswari6Apr195122Sep1952EdwardPenderelMoon(b.1905d.1987)

  • 22Sep19523Jan1955RameshwarPrasadBharagava3Jan195525Apr1958P.C.Mathew(b.1913d.2011)26Apr195823Nov1963JagatMohanRaina(b.1911)23Nov196319Dec1969BaleshwarPrasad(b.1914d.1996)Lieutenantgovernors19Dec1969Jan1970BaleshwarPrasad(s.a.)Jan197021Jan1972DalipRaiKohli(b.1919d.2007)Governors21Jan197221Sep1973BrajKumarNehru(b.1909d.2001)21Sep197312Aug1981LallanPrasadSingh(b.1912d.1998)12Aug19812Jun1984SaiyidMuzaffarHusainBurney(b.1923d.2014)2Jun198410Jul1989K.V.KrishnaRao(b.1923)10Jul198920Mar1993ChintamaniPanigrahi(b.1922d.2000)20Mar199331Aug1993K.V.RaghunathaReddy(b.1924d.2002)31Aug199323Dec1994V.K.Nayar23Dec19942Dec1999OudhNarainShrivastava2Dec199912Jun2003VedPrakashMarwah(b.1932)12Jun20036Aug2004ArvindDave(b.1940)6Aug200423Jul2008ShivinderSinghSidhu(b.1929)23Jul200829Jul2013GurbachanJagat(b.1942)29Jul201331Dec2013AshwaniKumar(b.1950)31Dec201315Sep2014VinodKumarDuggal(b.1944)15Sep2014KrishanKantPaul(b.1948)

    Chiefministers1Jul196312Jan1967MairembamKoirengSingh(1sttime)(b.1915d.1994)INC12Jan196720Mar1968President'srule20Mar19674Oct1967MairembamKoirengSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC13Oct196725Oct1967LongjamThambouSinghMUF25Oct196719Feb1968President'srule19Feb196817Oct1969MairembamKoirengSingh(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC17Oct196923Mar1972President'srule23Mar197228Mar1973MohammedAlimuddin(1sttime)(b.1920d.1963)MPP28Mar19734Mar1974President'srule4Mar197410Jul1974MohammedAlimuddin(2ndtime)(s.a.)MPP10Jul19746Dec1974YangmashoShaiza(1sttime)(b.1923d.1984)MHU6Dec197416May1977RajKumarDorendraSingh(1sttime)(b.1934)INC16May197729Jun1977President'srule29Jun197714Nov1979YangmashoShaiza(2ndtime)(s.a.)JP14Nov197914Jan1980President'srule14Jan198027Nov1980RajKumarDorendraSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC27Nov198028Feb1981RishangKeishing(1sttime)(b.1920)INC28Feb198119Jun1981President'srule19Jun19814Mar1988RishangKeishing(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI4Mar198823Feb1990R.K.JaichandraSingh(b.1942d.1994)INC23Feb19907Jan1992RajKumarRanbirSingh(b.1929?d.2006)MPP7Jun19928Apr1992President'srule8Apr199231Dec1993RajKumarDorendraSingh(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC31Dec199314Dec1994President'srule14Dec199416Dec1997RishangKeishing(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC16Dec199715Feb2001WahengbamNipamachaSingh(b.1930d.2012)MSCP15Feb20012Jun2001RadhabinodKoijam(b.1943)SmP2Jun20017Mar2002President'srule7Mar2002OkramIbobiSingh(b.1948)INC

  • Meghalaya

    2Apr1970MeghalayaAutonomousStatewithinAssam.21Jan1972SeparatestateofMeghalaya.

    Governors2Apr197018Sep1973BrajKumarNehru(b.1909d.2001)19Sep197311Aug1981LallanPrasadSingh(b.1912d.1998)11Aug198129Mar1984PrakashChandraMehrotra(b.1925)29Mar198416Apr1984TriveniSahaiMisra(b.1922)16Apr198411May1989BhishmaNarainSingh(b.1933)11May198927Jul1989HarideoJoshi(b.1921d.1995)27Jul19899May1990AbubakarAbdulRahim(b.1920?d.1995)9May199019Jun1995MadhukarDighe(b.1920d.2014)19Jun199512Apr2007M.M.Jacob(b.1928)12Apr200729Oct2007BanwariLalJoshi(b.1934)29Oct20071Jul2008ShivinderSinghSidhu(b.1929)1Jul20088Jul2013RanjitShekharMooshahary(b.1946)8Jul20136Jan2015KrishanKantPaul(b.1948)6Jan2015KeshariNathTripathi(b.1934)

    Chiefministers2Apr197010Mar1978WilliamsonA.Sangma(1sttime)(b.1919d.1990)APHLC;1976INC10Mar19787May1979DarwinDiengdohPugh(b.1927d.2008)APHLC7May19797May1981BrightonBuhaiLyngdoh(1sttime)(b.1922d.2003)APHLC7May19812Mar1983WilliamsonA.Sangma(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC2Mar19832Apr1983BringtonBuhaiLyngdoh(2ndtime)(s.a.)APHLC2Apr19836Feb1988WilliamsonA.Sangma(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC6Feb198826Mar1990PurnoAgitokSangma(b.1947)INC26Mar199011Oct1991BringtonBuhaiLyngdoh(3rdtime)(s.a.)HPU11Oct19915Feb1992President'srule5Feb199219Feb1993D.D.Lapang(1sttime)(b.1934)INC19Feb199310Mar1998SalsengC.Marak(b.1941?)INC10Mar19988Mar2000BringtonBuhaiLyngdoh(4thtime)(s.a.)UDP8Mar20008Dec2001E.K.Mawlong(b.1946d.2008)UDP8Dec20014Mar2003FlinderAndersonKhonglam(b.1945)Nonparty4Mar200315Jun2006D.D.Lapang(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC15Jun200610Mar2007J.DringwellRymbai(b.1934)INC10Mar200719Mar2008D.D.Lapang(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC19Mar200819Mar2009DonkuparRoy(b.1954)UDP19Mar200913May2009President'srule13May200920Apr2010D.D.Lapang(4thtime)(s.a.)INC20Apr2010MukulM.Sangma(b.1965)INC

    Mizoram

  • 21Jan1972MizoramUnionterritorycreatedfrompartofAssam.20Feb1987Mizoramstate

    Chiefcommissioner21Jan197224Apr1972S.J.DasLieutenantgovernors24Apr197212Jun1974ShantiPriyaMukherjee13Jun197426Sep1977S.K.Chhibbar(b.1920)27Sep197715Apr1981MohanPrakashMathur(b.1908d.....)16Apr19819Aug1983SourendraNathKohli(b.1916d.1997)10Aug198310Dec1986MariShankarDhubey(b.1926)11Dec198619Feb1987HiteshwarSaikia(b.1934d.1996)Governors20Feb198730Apr1989HiteshwarSaikia(s.a.)1May198920Jul1989K.V.KrishnaRao(b.1923)21Jul19897Feb1990WilliamsonA.Sangma(b.1919d.1990)8Feb199010Feb1993SwarajKaushal(b.1952)10Feb199313Jan1998PatyRippleKyndiah(b.1928d.2015)14Jan199828Jan1998SiddheshwarPrasad(b.1929)29Jan19981May1998ArunPrasadMukherjee2May199830Nov2000AnandamPadmanabhan(b.1928)1Dec200017May2001VedPrakashMarwah(b.1932)18May200124Jul2006AmolakRattanKohli(b.1942)25Jul20062Sep2011M.M.Lakhera(b.1937)2Sep20116Jul2014VakkomPurushothaman(b.1928)9Jul20148Aug2014KamlaBeniwal(f)(b.1927)8Aug201416Sep2014VinodKumarDuggal(b.1944)16Sep20149Jan2015KrishanKantPaul(b.1948)9Jan20154Apr2015AzizQureshi(b.1940)4Apr2015KeshariNathTripathi(b.1934)

    Chiefministers3May197210May1977LawrenceChalChhunga(b.1922)MU10May19772Jun1977President'srule2Jun197810Nov1978ThenphungaSailo(1sttime)(b.1922d.2015)MPC10Nov19788May1979President'srule8May19794May1984ThenphungaSailo(2ndtime)(s.a.)MPC5May198420Aug1986PuLalthanhawla(1sttime)(b.1942)INCI21Aug19867Sep1988PuLaldenga(b.1927d.1990)MNF7Sep198824Jan1989President'srule24Jan19893Dec1998PuLalthanhawla(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI3Dec199811Dec2008PuZoramthanga(b.1944)MNF11Dec2008PuLalthanhawla(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC

    Nagaland

  • 14Aug1947NagadeclareindependencefromBritain(notrecognized).22Mar1956SecessionfromIndiadeclaredbyNagarebelsasPeople'sSovereignRepublicofFreeNagaland(notrecognized).18Feb1961NagalandinterimbodyestablishedbytheNagalandtransitionalprovisionregulation.1Dec1963NagalandstatecreatedfrompartofAssam.

    ChairmenoftheNagalandInterimBody18Feb196124Aug1961ImkonglibaAo(b.1903d.1961)22Sep196130Nov1963T.N.Angami(b.1913d.....)Governors1Dec196316Apr1968VishnuSahay(b.1901d.1989)17Apr196818Sep1973BrajKumarNehru(b.1909d.2001)19Sep19739Aug1981LallanPrasadSingh(b.1912d.1998)10Aug198112Jun1984SaiyidMuzaffarHusainBurney(b.1923d.2014)13Jun198419Jul1989K.V.KrishnaRao(b.1923)20Jul19893May1990GopalSingh(b.1917d.1990)4May19909May1990ChintamaniPanigrahi(b.1922d.2000)9May199012Apr1992M.M.Thomas(b.1916d.1996)13Apr19921Oct1993LokNathMishra(b.1922d.2009)2Oct19934Aug1994V.K.Nayar5Aug199411Nov1996OudhNarainShrivastava12Nov199627Jan2002OmPrakashSharma(b.1937)28Jan20022Feb2007ShyamalDatta(b.1941)2Feb20074Feb2007K.Wilson4Feb200728Jul2009K.Sankaranarayanan(b.1932)28Jul200914Oct2009GurbachanJagat(b.1942)15Oct200920Mar2013NikhilKumar(b.1941)21Mar201327Jun2014AshwaniKumar(b.1950)2Jul201419Jul2014KrishanKantPaul(b.1948)19Jul2014PadmanabhaBalakrishnaAcharya(b.1931)

    ChiefExecutiveCouncillor18Feb196130Nov1963ShiluAo(b.1916d.1988)NNOChiefministers1Dec196314Aug1966ShiluAo(s.a.)NNO14Aug196622Feb1969T.N.Angami(s.a.)NNO22Feb196926Feb1974HokisheSema(1sttime)(b.1921d.2007)NNO26Feb197410Mar1975VizolAngami(1sttime)(b.1914d.2008)UDF10Mar197520Mar1975JohnSoscoJasokie(1sttime)(b.1925d.2005)NNDP20Mar197525Nov1977President'srule25Nov197718Apr1980VizolAngami(2ndtime)(s.a.)UDF18Apr19805Jun1980SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(b.1931)UDFP(1sttime)5Jun198018Nov1982JohnSoscoJasokie(2ndtime)(s.a.)NNDP18Nov198228Oct1986SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(s.a.)UDFP(2ndtime)29Oct19867Aug1988HokisheSema(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI7Aug198825Jan1989President'srule25Jan198915May1990SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(s.a.)INCI(3rdtime)

  • 16May199019Jun1990K.L.Chishi(b.1944?)INC19Jun19902Apr1992VamuzoPhesao(b.1938d.2000)NPC2Apr199222Feb1993President'srule22Feb19936Mar2003SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(s.a.)INC(4thtime)6Mar20033Jan2008NeiphiuRio(1sttime)(b.1950)NPF3Jan200812Mar2008President'srule12Mar200824May2014NeiphiuRio(2ndtime)(s.a.)NPF24May2014T.R.Zeliang(b.1952)NPF

    Adopted14Aug1947

    PresidentsoftheNagaNationalCouncil(inrebellion)2Feb19461947T.AlibaImtiAo(b.1919)19471948MhondamoLothaKithan1948Nov1949VisarViswentsoAngamiNov1949May1956AngamiZapuPhizo(b.1903d.1990)

    Odisha

    15Aug1947OrissaProvince26Jan1950OrissaState4Nov2011RenamedOdisha.

    Governors15Aug194720Jun1948KailashNathKatju(b.1887d.1968)21Jun19486Jun1952JanabM.AsafAli(b.1888d.1953)7Jun19529Feb1954SirSaiyidFazlAli(b.1886d.1959)10Feb195411Sep1956PoosapatiS.KumaraswamyRaja(b.1898d.1957)12Sep195631Jul1957BhimSenSachar(b.1893d.1978)31Jul195715Sep1962YeshwantNarayanSukthankar(b.1897d.19..)16Sep196230Jan1968AjudhiaNathKhosla(b.1892d.1984)31Jan196820Sep1971ShaukatullahShahAnsari(b.1908d.1972)20Sep197130Jun1972SardarJogendraSingh(b.1903d.1979)1Jul19728Nov1972GatikrisinaMisra(1sttime)(b.1913d.2009)(acting)8Nov197220Aug1974BasappaDanappaJatti(b.1912d.2002)21Aug197425Oct1974GatikrisinaMisra(2ndtime)(s.a.)(acting)25Oct197417Apr1976AkbarAliKhan(b.1899d.1994)17Apr19767Feb1977ShivNarainSankar(acting)(b.1915)

  • 7Feb197722Sep1977HarcharanSinghBrar(b.1922d.2009)23Sep197730Apr1980BhagwatDayalSharma(b.1918d.1993)30Apr198017Aug1983CheppudiraMuthanaPoonacha(b.1910d.1990)17Aug198320Nov1988BishambharNathPande(b.1906d.1998)20Nov19886Feb1990NurulHasan(1sttime)(b.1921d.1993)7Feb19901Feb1993YagyaDuttSharma(b.1922d.1996)1Feb199331May1993NurulHasan(2ndtime)(s.a.)1Jun199317Jun1995B.SatyanarayanReddy(b.1927d.2012)18Jun199530Jan1997GopalaRamanujam(1sttime)(b.1915d.2001)31Jan199712Feb1997K.V.RaghunathaReddy(1sttime)(b.1927)13Feb199713Dec1997GopalaRamanujam(2ndtime)(s.a.)13Dec199727Apr1998K.V.RaghunathaReddy(2ndtime)(s.a.)27Apr199814Nov1999ChakravartiRangarajan(b.1932)15Nov199917Nov2004M.M.Rajendran(b.1935)17Nov200421Aug2007RameshwarThakur(b.1927d.2015)21Aug200721Mar2013MurlidharChandrakantBhandare(b.1928)21Mar2013SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir(b.1931)

    Chiefministers15Aug194712May1950HarekrishnaMahatab(1sttime)(b.1899d.1987)INC12May195015Oct1956NabakrushnaChoudhury(b.1901d.1984)INC15Oct195625Feb1961HarekrishnaMahatab(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC25Feb196116Jun1961President'srule16Jun19612Oct1962BijayanandaPatnaik(1sttime)(b.1916d.1997)INC2Oct196221Feb1965BirenMitra(b.1917d.1978)INC21Feb19658Mar1967SadasivaTripathy(b.1910d.1980)INC8Mar196711Jan1971RajendraNarayanaSinghDeo(b.1912d.1975)SwP11Jan19713Apr1971President'srule3Apr197114Jun1972BiswanathDas(b.1889d.1984)Nonparty14Jun19723Mar1973NandiniSatpathy(f)(1sttime)(b.1931d.2006)INC3Mar19736Mar1974President'srule6Mar197416Dec1976NandiniSatpathy(f)(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC16Dec197629Dec1976President'srule29Dec197625Jun1977BinayakAcharya(b.1918d.1983)INC25Jun197717Feb1980NilamoniRoutray(b.1920d.2004)JP17Feb19809Jun1980President'srule9Jun19807Dec1989JanakiBallabhPatnaik(1sttime)(b.1927d.2015)INCI7Dec19895Mar1990HemanandaBiswal(1sttime)(b.1939)INCI5Mar199015Mar1995BijayanandaPatnaik(2ndtime)(s.a.)JD15Mar199515Feb1999JanakiBallabhPatnaik(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC15Feb19996Dec1999GiridharGamango(b.1943)INC6Dec19995Mar2000HemanandaBiswal(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC5Mar2000NaveenPatnaik(b.1946)BJD

    Puducherry(Pondicherry)

  • 13Jun1954YanaontakenbyIndianmilitarypolice.15Jul1954MahtakenbyproIndiangroups.1Nov1954Remainingterritories(PondichryandKarikal)transferredtoIndiadefacto.16Aug1962DejuretransfertoIndia.7Jan1963Pondicherryunionterritory1Oct2006RenamedPuducherry.

    Chiefcommissioners1Nov195417Nov1956KewalSingh(b.1915d.1991)17Nov195628Aug1958MotiK.Kripalani(b.1901d.....)28Aug19588Feb1961L.R.S.Singh2May19612Aug1963SaratKumarDatta(b.1908)2Aug196314Oct1963K.J.Somasundaram(b.1915)Lieutenantgovernors14Oct196314Oct1968SayajiLaxmanSilam(b.1896d.19..)14Oct19688Nov1972BasappaDanappaJatti(b.1912d.2002)8Nov197230Aug1976CheddyLal30Aug19761Nov1980BideshTukaramKulkarni(1sttime)(b.1909d.1988)8Jul197822Jul1978PrabhudasBalubhaiPatwari(b.1909d.1985)22Jul19781Nov1980BideshTukaramKulkarni(2ndtime)(s.a.)1Nov198016Apr1981RamKishoreVyas(b.1908d.1981)16Apr198127Jul1981SadiqAli(b.1910d.2001)27Jul198115May1982RamdasNarayanHaldipur(b.1921d.2003)15May19825Aug1983KizhekethilMathewChandy(b.1920d.1998)19Aug198318Jun1984KonaPrabhakaraRao(b.1916d.1990)18Jun19841Oct1984SundarLalKhurana(b.1918)1Oct198422Jun1988ThiruTribhuvanPrasadTewary(b.1923)22Jun198819Feb1990RanjitSinghDayal(b.1928d.2012)19Feb199019Dec1990Chandrawati(f)(b.1928)19Dec19906Feb1993SwarupSingh(b.1917d.2003)6Feb199331May1993BhishmaNarainSingh(b.1933)31May19932May1995MarriChannaReddy(b.1919d.1996)2May199523Apr1998RajendraKumariBajpai(f)(b.1925d.1999)23Apr199831Jul2002RajaniRai(f)(b.1931)31Jul200227Oct2003K.R.Malkani(b.1921d.2003)31Oct20035Jan2004P.S.RamamohanRaoAdministrator(b.1934)5Jan20047Jul2004NagendraNathJha(b.1935)7Jul200419Jul2006M.M.Lakhera(b.1937)19Jul200615Mar2008MukutMithi(b.1954)15Mar200823Jul2008BhopinderSingh(b.1946)23Jul20086Apr2009GovindSinghGurjar(b.1932d.2009)8Apr200927Jul2009SurjitSinghBarnalaAdministrator(b.1925)27Jul200910Jul2013IqbalSingh(b.1945)10Jul201317Jul2014VirendraKataria(b.1933?)17Jul2014AjayKumarSingh

    Chiefcounsellors195513Jan1956MauricePaquirissamypoull(b.1906d.1956)INC20Apr19561959?EdouardGoubert(b.1894d.1979)INCAug19591963?V.VenkatasubhaReddiar(b.1909d.1981)INCChiefministers1Jul196311Sep1964EdouardGoubert(s.a.)INC11Sep19649Apr1967V.VenkatasubhaReddiar(1sttime)(s.a.)INC9Apr19676Mar1968M.O.HasanFarookMaricar(b.1937d.2012)INC(1sttime)6Mar196818Sep1968V.VenkatasubhaReddiar(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC18Sep196817Mar1969President'srule17Mar19693Jan1974M.O.HasanFarookMaricar(s.a.)DMK

  • (2ndtime)6Mar197428Mar1974SubramanyanRamaswamy(1sttime)AIADMK28Mar19742Jul1977President'srule2Jul197712Nov1978SubramanyanRamaswamy(2ndtime)AIADMK12Nov197816Jan1980President'srule16Jan198024Jun1983M.D.R.Ramachandran(1sttime)DMK24Jun198316Mar1985President'srule16Mar198519Jan1989M.O.HasanFarookMaricar(s.a.)INCI(3rdtime)19Jan19895Mar1990President'srule5Mar199012Jan1991M.D.R.Ramachandran(2ndtime)DMK12Jan19914Jul1991President'srule4Jul199114May1996V.Vaithilingam(1sttime)(b.1950)INC14May199626May1996President'srule26May199618Mar2000R.V.JanakiramanDMK22Mar200027Oct2001P.Shanmugam(b.1927d.2013)INC27Oct20014Sep2008N.Rangaswamy(1sttime)(b.1950)INC4Sep200816May2011V.Vaithilingam(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC16May2011N.Rangasamy(2ndtime)(s.a.)AINRC

    Punjab

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State

    Governors15Aug194711Mar1953SirChandulalMadhavlalTrivedi(b.1893d.1981)11Mar195315Sep1958SirChandeshwarPrasadNarayan(b.1901d.1993)Singh15Sep19581Oct1962NarharVishnuGadgil(b.1886d.1966)1Oct19624May1964PattomThanuPillai(b.1885d.1970)4May19641Sep1965HafizMuhammadIbrahim(b.1889d.1968)1Sep196526Jun1966SardarUjjalSingh(b.1895d.1983)27Jun19661Jun1967DharmaVira(b.1906d.2000)1Jun196716Oct1967MeharSingh16Oct196721May1973DadasahebChintananiPavate(b.1899d.1979)21May19731Sep1977MahendraMohanChoudhury(b.1908d.1983)1Sep197724Sep1977RanjitSinghNarula(b.1915d.2005)24Sep197726Aug1981JaisukhLalHathi(b.1909d.1982)26Aug198121Apr1982AminuddinAhmadKhan(b.1911d.1983)21Apr19827Feb1983MarriChannaReddy(b.1919d.1996)7Feb198321Feb1983S.S.Sandhawalia(b.1925d.2007)21Feb198310Oct1983AnantPrasadSharma(b.1919d.1988)10Oct19833Jul1984BhairabDuttPande(b.1917d.2009)3Jul198414Mar1985KershaspTehmuraspSatarawala(b.1916d.2001)14Mar198514Nov1985ArjunSingh(b.1930d.2011)14Nov198526Nov1985HokisheSema(b.1921d.2007)

  • 26Nov19852Apr1986ShankarDayalSharma(b.1918d.1999)2Apr19868Dec1989SiddhartaShankarRay(b.1920d.2010)8Dec198914Jun1990NirmalMukarji(b.1921d.2002)14Jun199018Dec1990VirendraVerma(b.1916d.2009)18Dec19907Aug1991OmPrakashMalhotra(b.1922)7Aug19919Jul1994SurendraNath(b.1926?d.1994)10Jul199418Sep1994SudhakarPanditraoKurdukar(b.1935)18Sep199427Nov1999B.K.N.Chhibber(b.1936)27Nov19998May2003JackFrederickRalphJacob(b.1921)8May20033Nov2004OmPrakashVerma(b.1937)3Nov200416Nov2004AkhlaqurRahmanKidwai(b.1920)16Nov200422Jan2010S.F.Rodrigues(b.1933)22Jan201021Jan2015ShivrajVishwanathPatil(b.1935)22Jan2015KaptanSinghSolanki(b.1939)

    Chiefministers15Aug194713Apr1949GopichandBhargava(1sttime)(b.1890d.1966)INC13Apr194918Oct1949BhimSenSachar(1sttime)(b.1893d.1978)INC18Oct194920Jun1951GopichandBhargava(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC20Jun195217Apr1952President'srule17Apr195223Jan1956BhimSenSachar(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC23Jan195621Jun1964SardarPratapSinghKairon(b.1910d.1965)INC21Jun19645Jul1966RamKishanINC5Jul19661Nov1966President'srule1Nov19668Mar1967GurumukhSinghMusafir(b.1899d.1976)INC8Mar196725Nov1967SardarGurinamSingh(1sttime)(b.1899d.1973)SAD25Nov196723Aug1968SardarLachhmanSinghGill(b.1917d.1969)SAD23Aug196817Feb1969President'srule17Feb196927Mar1970SardarGurinamSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)SAD27Mar197014Jun1971ParkashSinghBadal(1sttime)(b.1927)SAD14Jun197117Mar1972President'srule17Mar197230Apr1977ZailSingh(b.1916d.1994)INC30Apr197720Jun1977President'srule20Jun197717Feb1980ParkashSinghBadal(2ndtime)(s.a.)SAD17Feb19807Jun1980President'srule7Jun19806Oct1983DarbaraSingh(b.1916d.1990)INCI6Oct198329Sep1985President'srule29Sep198511May1987SurjitSinghBarnala(b.1925)SAD11May198725Feb1992President'srule25Feb199231Aug1995BeantSingh(b.1922d.1995)INC31Aug199521Nov1996HarcharanSinghBrar(b.1922d.2009)INC21Nov199612Feb1997RajinderKaurBhattal(f)(b.1945)INC12Feb199727Feb2002ParkashSinghBadal(3rdtime)(s.a.)SAD27Feb20022Mar2007AmarinderSingh(b.1942)INC2Mar2007ParkashSinghBadal(4thtime)(s.a.)SAD

    KhalistanSeparatistFlag

    Presidentof"RepublicofKhalistan"13Jun19843Apr2007JagitSinghChauhan(b.1927d.2007)

  • (inLondon,U.K.exileto26Jun2001)

    PatialaandEastPunjabStatesUnion(PEPSU)

    15Jul1948State1Nov1956PartofPunjab.

    Rajpramukh15Jul194831Oct1956YadavindraSingh(b.1913d.1974)

    Premiers22Aug194823May1951SardarGianSinghRarewala(b.1901d.1979)Nonparty23May195122Apr1952SardarRaghbirSingh(b.1894d.1955)INCChiefministers22Apr19525Mar1953SardarGianSinghRarewala(s.a.)UF5Mar19538Mar1953President'srule8Mar19547Jan1955SardarRaghbirSingh(s.a.)INC12Jan195531Oct1956BrishBhan(b.1908d.1988)INC

    Rajasthan

    25Mar1948Rajasthan18Apr1948UnitedStatesofRajasthan15May1949UnitedStatesofGreaterRajasthan1Nov1956Rajasthan

    Rajpramukhs25Mar194818Apr1948BhimSinghII(b.1909d.1991)18Apr19481Apr1949SirBhopalSingh(b.1884d.1955)Maharajpramukh1Apr19494Jul1955SirBhopalSingh(s.a.)Governors1Nov195616Apr1962GurumukhNihalSingh(b.1895d.1969)16Apr196216Apr1967Sampurnanand(b.1891d.1969)16Apr196719Nov1970SardarHukamSingh(1sttime)(b.1895d.1983)20Nov197023Dec1970JagatNarayan24Dec197030Jun1972SardarHukamSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)1Jul197215Feb1977SardarJogendraSingh(b.1903d.1979)15Feb197711May1977VedpalTyagi(acting)17May19778Aug1981RaghukulTilak(b.1900d.....)8Aug19816Mar1982K.D.Sharma(acting)6Mar19824Jan1985OmPrakashMehra(1sttime)(b.1919)5Jan198531Jan1985PradyotKumarBanerjee1Feb19853Nov1985OmPrakashMehra(2ndtime)(s.a.)4Nov198519Nov1985DwarkaPrasadGupta(b.1926)20Nov198515Oct1987VasantraoPatil(b.1917d.1989)

  • 15Oct198719Feb1988JagdishSharanVerma(1sttime)(b.1933d.2013)20Feb19883Feb1990SukhdevPrasad(b.1921d.1995)3Feb199014Feb1990MilapChandJain(acting)(b.1929d.2015)14Feb199026Aug1991DebiPrasadChattopadhyaya(b.1933)26Aug19915Feb1992SarupSingh(acting)(b.1917d.2003)5Feb199231May1993MarriChannaReddy(b.1919d.1996)31May199330Jun1993DhanikLalMandal(acting)(b.1932)30Jun19931May1998BaliRamBhagat(b.1922d.2011)1May199824May1998DarbaraSingh(b.1927d.1998)25May199816Jan1999NavrangLalTibrewal(acting)(b.1937)16Jan199914May2003AnshumanSingh(b.1935)14May200322Sep2003NirmalChandraJain(b.1928d.2003)22Sep200314Jan2004KailashpatiMishra(b.1926d.2012)14Jan20041Nov2004MadanLalKhurana(b.1936)1Nov20048Nov2004ThanjaveluRajeshwar(b.1926)8Nov200423Jun2007PratibhaPatil(f)(b.1934)23Jun20076Sep2007AkhlaqurRahmanKidwai(b.1920)6Sep20071Dec2009ShilendraKumarSingh(b.1932d.2009)2Dec200926Apr2010PrabhaRau(f)(b.1935d.2010)28Apr201012May2012ShivrajVishwanathPatil(b.1935)12May20128Aug2014MargaretAlva(f)(b.1942)8Aug20144Sep2014RamNaik(b.1934)4Sep2014KalyanSingh(b.1932)

    Chiefministers25Mar194818Apr1948GokulLalAsawaINC18Apr19487Apr1949ManikyaLalVerma(b.1897d.1969)Nonparty7Apr19495Jan1951HiralalShastri(b.1899d.1974)INC6Jan195126Apr1951CadambiSheshacharVenkatachari(b.1899d.1999)INC(acting)26Apr19513Mar1952JaiNarayanVyas(1sttime)(b.1899d.1963)INC3Mar19521Nov1952TikaramPaliwal(b.1907d.....)INC1Nov195213Nov1954JaiNarayanVyas(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC13Nov195413Mar1967MohanLalSukhadia(1sttime)(b.1916d.1982)INC13Mar196726Apr1967President'srule26Apr19679Jul1971MohanLalSukhadia(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC9Jul197111Oct1973BarkatullahKhan(b.1920d.1973)INC11Oct197323Oct1973President'srule23Oct197322Jun1977HarideoJoshi(1sttime)(b.1921d.1995)INC22Jun197716Feb1980BhaironSinghShekhawat(1sttime)(b.1923d.2010)JP16Feb19806Jun1980President'srule6Jun198014Jul1981JagannathPahadia(b.1932)INCI14Jul198123Feb1985ShivCharanMathur(1sttime)(b.1926d.2009)INCI23Feb198510Mar1985HeeraLalDevpura(b.1925d.2004)INC10Mar198520Jan1988HarideoJoshi(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC20Jan19884Dec1989ShivCharanMathur(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI4Dec19894Mar1990HarideoJoshi(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC4Mar199015Dec1992BhaironSinghShekhawat(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP15Dec19924Dec1993President'srule4Dec19931Dec1998BhaironSinghShekhawat(3rdtime)(s.a.)BJP1Dec19988Dec2003AshokGehlot(1sttime)(b.1951)INC8Dec200313Dec2008VasundharaRaje(f)(1sttime)(b.1953)BJP13Dec200813Dec2013AshokGehlot(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC13Dec2013VasundharaRaje(f)(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP

  • Matsya

    18Mar1948MatsyaUnionformedbymergerofformerprincelystatesofAlwar,Bharatpur,Dholpur,andKarauli.15May1949PartofRajasthan.

    Chiefminister18Mar194815May1949ShobhaRam(b.1914d.....)INC

    Ajmer

    15Aug1947AjmerMerwaraprovince26Jan1950Ajmerstate1Nov1956PartofRajasthan

    Chiefcommissioners19471948ShankarPrasada(b.1905d.....)19481951ChandrakantBalwantraoNagarkarJan1952Mar1954AnandDattahayaPandit(b.1909d.....)Mar195431Oct1956M.K.Kripalani

    Chiefminister24Mar19521956HariBhauUpadhyay(b.1892d.1972)INC

    Sikkim

    16May1975StateofSikkim

    Governors16May197510Jan1981BipenBihariLal(b.1917d.2008)10Jan198116Jun1984HomiJ.H.Taleyarkhan(b.1917d.1998)16Jun198431May1985KonaPrabhakaraRao(b.1916d.1990)31May198521Nov1985BhishmaNarainSingh(b.1933)21Nov19852Mar1989ThanjaveluRajeshwar(b.1926)2Mar19898Feb1990S.K.Bhatnagar(b.1930?d.2001)8Feb199021Sep1994RadhakrishnanTahiliani(b.1930)21Sep199412Nov1995PunjalaShivShanker(b.1929)12Nov199510Mar1996K.V.RaghunathaReddy(b.1924d.2002)10Mar199618May2001ChaudhuryRandhirSingh18May200125Oct2002KidarNathSahani(b.1926d.2012)25Oct200212Jul2006V.RamaRao(1sttime)(b.1935)13Jul200612Aug2006RamkrishnanSuryabhanGavai(b.1929)(acting)13Aug200625Oct2007V.RamaRao(2ndtime)(s.a.)25Oct20079Jul2008SudarshanAgarwal(b.1931)9Jul200820Jul2013BalmikiPrasadSingh(b.1942)20Jul2013ShriniwasDadasahebPatil(b.1941)

  • Chiefministers16May197518Aug1979KaziLhendupDorjeeKhangsarpa(b.1904d.2007)INC18Aug197918Oct1979President'srule18Oct197911May1984NarBahadurBhandari(1sttime)(b.1940)SkJP;1981INC11May198425May1984BhimBhadurGurung(b.1929)INCI25May19848Mar1985President'srule8Mar198517Jun1994NarBahadurBhandari(2ndtime)(s.a.)SkSP17Jun199412Dec1994SanchamanLimboo(b.1949)SkSP12Dec1994PawanKumarChamling(b.1950)SkDF

    TamilNadu

    15Aug1947Madrasprovince26Jan1950State14Jan1969RenamedTamilNadu.

    Governors15Aug19477Sep1948SirArchibaldEdwardNye(b.1895d.1967)7Sep194812Mar1952SirKrishnakumarsimhjiBhavsimhji(b.1912d.1965)12Mar195210Dec1956SriPrakasa(b.1890d.1971)10Dec195630Sep1957AnapparambulJosephJohn(b.1893d.1957)1Oct195724Jan1958PakalaVenkataRajamannar(acting)(b.1901d.1979)24Jan19584May1964BishnuramMedhi(b.1888d.1981)4May196428Jun1966JayachamarajendraUdaiyar(b.1919d.1974)28Jun196627May1971SardarUjjalSingh(b.1895d.1983)(actingto16Jun1967)27May197116Jun1976KodardasKalidasShah(b.1908d.1986)16Jun19768Apr1977MohanLalSukhadia(b.1916d.1982)8Apr197727Apr1977ChandreswarPrasadNarainSingh(b.1901d.1993)(acting)27Apr197727Oct1980PrabhudasBalubhaiPatwari(b.1909d.1985)27Oct19804Nov1980M.M.Ismail(acting)(b.1921d.2005)4Nov19803Sep1982SadiqAli(b.1910d.2001)3Sep198217Feb1988SundarLalKhurana(b.1918)17Feb198824May1990P.CherianAlexander(b.1921d.2011)24May199015Feb1991SurjitSinghBarnala(1sttime)(b.1925)15Feb199131May1993BhishmaNarainSingh(b.1933)31May19932Dec1996MarriChannaReddy(b.1919d.1996)2Dec199625Jan1997KrishanKant(b.1927d.2002)25Jan19973Jul2001M.FathimaBeevi(f)(b.1927)3Jul200118Jan2002ChakravartiRangarajan(acting)(b.1932)18Jan20023Nov2004P.S.RamamohanRao(b.1934)3Nov200431Aug2011SurjitSinghBarnala(2ndtime)(s.a.)31Aug2011KonijetiRosaiah(b.1933)

  • Chiefministers15Aug19476Apr1949OmandurP.RamaswamiReddiar(b.1895d.1970)INC6Apr194910Apr1952PoosapatiS.KumaraswamyRaja(b.1898d.1957)INC10Apr195213Apr1954ChakravartiRajagopalachari(b.1878d.1972)INC13Apr19542Oct1963KumaraswamiKamaraj(b.1903d.1975)INC2Oct19636Mar1967M.Bhaktavatsalam(b.1897d.1987)INC6Mar19673Feb1969ConjeeveramNatarajanAnnadurai(b.1909d.1969)DMK3Feb196910Feb1969V.R.Nedunchezhiyan(acting)(b.1920d.2000)DMK(1sttime)10Feb196931Jan1976KalaignarMuthuvelKarunanidhi(b.1924)DMK(1sttime)31Jan197630Jun1977President'srule30Jun197717Feb1980MarudurGopalaRamachandran(b.1917d.1987)AIADMK(1sttime)17Feb19809Jun1980President'srule9Jun198024Dec1987MarudurGopalaRamachandran(s.a.)AIADMK(2ndtime)24Dec19877Jan1988V.R.Nedunchezhiyan(acting)(s.a.)AIADMK(2ndtime)7Jan198830Jan1988JanakiRamachandran(f)(b.1923d.1996)AIADMK30Jan198827Jan1989President'srule27Jan198930Jan1991KalaignarMuthuvelKarunanidhi(s.a.)DMK(2ndtime)30Jan199124Jun1991President'srule24Jun199113May1996JayaramJayalalitha(f)(1sttime)(b.1948)AIADMK13May199614May2001KalaignarMuthuvelKarunanidhi(s.a.)DMK(3rdtime)14May200121Sep2001JayaramJayalalitha(f)(2ndtime)(s.a.)AIADMK21Sep20012Mar2002O.Paneerselvam(1sttime)(b.1951)AIADMK2Mar200213May2006JayaramJayalalitha(f)(3rdtime)(s.a.)AIADMK13May200616May2011KalaignarMuthuvelKarunanidhi(s.a.)DMK(4thtime)16May201129Sep2014JayaramJayalalitha(f)(4thtime)(s.a.)AIADMK29Sep2014O.Paneerselvam(2ndtime)(s.a.)AIADMK

    Telangana

    2Jun2014Telanganastate,createdfrompartofAndhraPradesh.

    Governor2Jun2014E.S.L.Narasimhan(b.1945)

    Chiefminister2Jun2014K.ChandrasekharRao(b.1954)TRS

  • Tripura

    15Oct1949Province26Jan1950State1Nov1956Unionterritory21Jan1972State

    Chiefcommissioners15Oct19491951R.K.Ray19511955VenkatasubramaniNanjappa(b.1911)19551956H.L.Atal19561958KalkaPrasadBhargava(b.1908d.....)19581962N.M.Patnaik15Nov196217Jan1967ShantiPriyaMukherjee17Jan19675Nov1967U.N.Sharma(b.1917)5Nov196731Jan1970D.K.Bhattacharya31Jan19708Aug1971AnthonyLancelotDias(b.1910d.2002)8Aug197121Jan1972BaleshwarPrasad(b.1914d.1996)Governors21Jan197223Sep1973BrajKumarNehru(b.1909d.2001)23Sep197310Aug1980LallanPrasadSingh(b.1912d.1998)10Aug198014Aug1981PrakashChandraMehotra(b.1925)14Aug198114Jun1984SaiyidMuzaffarHusainBurney(b.1923d.2014)14Jun198412Jul1989K.V.KrishnaRao(b.1923)12Jul198912Feb1990SultanSingh(b.1923d.2014)12Feb199015Aug1993K.V.RaghunathaReddy(b.1924d.2002)15Aug199316Jun1995RomeshBhandari(b.1928d.2013)16Jun199523Jun2000SiddheshwarPrasad(b.1929)23Jun20002Jun2003KrishnaMohanSeth(b.1939)2Jun200315Oct2009DineshNandanSahay(b.1936)15Oct200927Nov2009KamlaBeniwal(f)(b.1927)27Nov200925Mar2013D.Y.Patil(b.1935)25Mar201328Jun2014DevanandKonwar(b.1943?)30Jun201421Jul2014VakkomPurushothaman(b.1928)21Jul2014PadmanabhaBalakrishnaAcharya(b.1931)

    Chiefministers1Jul19631Nov1971SachindraLalSingh(b.1907d.2000)INC1Nov197127Mar1972President'srule27Mar19721Apr1977SukhamoySenGupta(d.1997?)INC1Apr197726Jul1977PrafullaKumarDas(b.c.1930)CD26Jul19775Nov1977RadhikaRanjanGupta(b.1928?d.1998)JP5Nov19775Jan1978President'srule5Jan19785Feb1988NripenChakraborty(b.1904d.2004)CPIM5Feb198819Feb1992SudhirRanjanMajumdar(b.1939d.2009)INCI19Feb199211Mar1993SamirRanjanBarmanINC11Mar199310Apr1993President'srule

  • 10Apr199311Mar1998DasarathDeb(b.1916d.1998)CPIM11Mar1998ManikSarkar(b.1949)CPIM

    UttarPradesh

    15Aug1947UnitedProvinces26Jan1950UttarPradeshstate

    Governors15Aug19472Mar1949SarojiniNaidu(f)(b.1879d.1949)3Mar19492May1949BidhubhusanMalik(acting)(b.1895d.1981)2May19492Jun1952SirHormasjiPeroshawMody(b.1881d.1969)2Jun195210Jun1957KanaiyalalManeklalMunshi(b.1887d.1971)10Jun19571Jul1960VarahagiriVenkataGiri(b.1894d.1980)1Jul196016Apr1962BurgulaRamakrishnaRao(b.1899d.1967)16Apr19621May1967BiswanathDas(b.1889d.1984)1May19671Jul1972BezawadaGopalaReddy(b.1907d.1997)1Jul197214Nov1972ShashiKantaVerma(acting)(b.1911)14Nov197225Oct1974AkbarAliKhan(b.1899d.1994)25Oct19742Oct1977MarriChannaReddy(b.1919d.1996)2Oct197728Feb1980GanpatraoDevjiTapase(b.1909d.1991)28Feb198031Mar1985ChandresvarPrasadNarainSingh(b.1901d.1993)31Mar198512Feb1990MohammedUsmanArif(b.1923d.1995)12Feb199027May1993B.SatyanarayanReddy(b.1927d.2012)27May19933May1996MotilalVora(b.1928)3May199619Sep1996MohammadShafiQureshi(1sttime)(b.1929)19Sep199617Mar1998RomeshBhandari(b.1928d.2013)17Mar199820Apr1998MohammadShafiQureshi(2ndtime)(s.a.)20Apr199824Nov2000SurajBhan(b.1928d.2006)24Nov20002Jul2004VishnuKantShastri(b.1929d.2005)2Jul20048Jul2004SudarshanAgarwal(b.1931)8Jul200428Jul2009ThanjaveluRajeshwar(b.1926)28Jul200923Jun2014BanwariLalJoshi(b.1934)23Jun201422Jul2014AzizQureshi(b.1940)22Jul2014RamNaik(b.1934)

    Chiefministers15Aug194728Dec1954GovindBallabhPant(b.1887d.1961)INC28Dec19547Dec1960Sampurnanand(b.1891d.1969)INC7Dec19602Oct1963ChandraBhanuGupta(1sttime)(b.1902d.1980)INC2Oct196314Mar1967SuchetaKriplani(f)(b.1908d.1974)INC14Mar19673Apr1967ChandraBhanuGupta(2ndtime)(s.a.)INC3Apr196717Feb1968CharanSingh(1sttime)(b.1902d.1987)BKD17Feb196826Feb1969President'srule26Feb196918Feb1970ChandraBhanuGupta(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC18Feb19702Oct1970CharanSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)BKD2Oct197018Oct1970President'srule18Oct19704Apr1971TribhuvanaNarayanaSingh(b.1908d.1982)INC4Apr197112Jun1973KamalapathiTripathi(b.1905d.1990)INC

  • 12Jun19738Nov1973President'srule8Nov197330Nov1975HemwatiNandanBahuguna(b.1919d.1989)INC30Nov197521Jan1976President'srule21Jan197630Apr1977NarainDuttTiwari(1sttime)(b.1925)INC30Apr197723Jun1977President'srule23Jun197728Feb1979RamNareshYadav(b.1928)JP28Feb197917Feb1980BanarsiDas(b.1912d.1983)JP17Feb19809Jun1980President'srule9Jun198019Jul1982VishwanathPratapSingh(b.1931d.2008)INCI19Jul19823Aug1984SripatiMishra(b.1924d.2002)INCI3Aug198424Sep1985NarainDuttTiwari(2ndtime)(s.a.)INCI24Sep198525Jun1988BirBahadurSingh(b.1935d.1989)INC25Jun19885Dec1989NarainDuttTiwari(3rdtime)(s.a.)INCI5Dec198924Jun1991MulayamSinghYadav(1sttime)(b.1939)JD24Jun19916Dec1992KalyanSingh(1sttime)(b.1932)BJP6Dec19924Dec1993President'srule5Dec19933Jun1995MulayamSinghYadav(2ndtime)(s.a.)SP3Jun199518Oct1995Mayawati(f)(1sttime)(b.1956)BSP18Oct199521Mar1997President'srule21Mar199721Sep1997Mayawati(f)(2ndtime)(s.a.)BSP21Sep199721Feb1998KalyanSingh(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP21Feb199823Feb1998JagdambikaPal(b.1950)INC23Feb199812Nov1999KalyanSingh(3rdtime)(s.a.)BJP12Nov199928Oct2000RamPrakashGupta(b.1923d.2004)BJP28Oct20008Mar2002RajnathSingh(b.1951)BJP8Mar20023May2002President'srule3May200229Aug2003Mayawati(f)(3rdtime)(s.a.)BSP29Aug200313May2003MulayamSinghYadav(3rdtime)(s.a.)SP13May200315Mar2012Mayawati(f)(4thtime)(s.a.)BSP15Mar2012AkhileshYadav(b.1973)SP

    Uttarakhand(Uttaranchal)

    9Nov2000UttaranchalstatecreatedfrompartofUttarPradesh.1Jan2007RenamedUttarakhand.

    Governors9Nov20008Jan2003SurjitSinghBarnala(b.1925)8Jan200322Oct2007SudarshanAgarwal(b.1931)29Oct20076Aug2009BanwariLalJoshi(b.1934)6Aug200915May2012MargaretAlva(f)(b.1942)15May20128Jan2015AzizQureshi(b.1940)8Jan2015KrishanKantPaul(b.1948)

    Chiefministers9Nov200030Oct2001NityanandSwamy(b.1928d.2012)BJP30Oct20012Mar2002BhagatSinghKoshiyari(b.1942)BJP

  • 2Mar20028Mar2007NarainDuttTiwari(b.1925)INC8Mar200727Jun2009BhuwanChandraKhanduri(1sttime)(b.1934)BJP27Jun200911Sep2011RameshPokhriyalNishank(b.1958)BJP11Sep201113Mar2012BhuwanChandraKhanduri(2ndtime)(s.a.)BJP13Mar20121Feb2014VijayBahuguna(b.1947)INC1Feb2014HarishRawat(b.1948)INC

    WestBengal

    15Aug1947Province26Jan1950State

    Governors15Aug194721Jun1948ChakravartiRajagopalachari(b.1878d.1972)21Jun19481Nov1951KailashNathiKatju(b.1887d.1968)1Nov19518Aug1956HarendraCoomarMookerjee(b.1877d.1956)8Aug19563Nov1956PhaniBhusanChakraborty(acting)3Nov19561Jun1967PadmajuNaidu(f)(b.1900d.1975)1Jun19671Apr1969DharmaVira(b.1906d.2000)1Apr196919Sep1969DeepNarayanSingh(b.1894d.1977)19Sep196921Aug1971ShantiSwaroopDhavan(b.1905d.1978)21Aug19716Nov1977AnthonyLancelotDias(b.1910d.2002)6Nov197712Sep1981TribhuvanaNarayanaSingh(b.1904d.1982)12Sep198110Oct1983BhairabDuttPande(b.1917d.2009)10Oct198316Aug1984AnantPrasadSharma(b.1919d.1988)16Aug19841Oct1984SatishChandra(acting)1Oct198412Aug1986UmaShankarDikshit(b.1901d.1991)12Aug198620Mar1989NurulHasan(1sttime)(b.1921d.1993)20Mar19897Feb1990ThanjaveluRajeshwar(b.1926)7Feb199012Jul1993NurulHasan(2ndtime)(s.a.)13Jul199314Aug1993B.SatyanarayanReddy(b.1927d.2012)14Aug199327Apr1998K.V.RaghunathaReddy(b.1924d.2002)27Apr199818May1999AkhlaqurRahmanKidwai(b.1920)18May19994Dec1999ShyamalKumarSen(b.1940)4Dec199914Dec2004VirenJ.Shah(b.1926d.2013)14Dec200414Dec2009GopalkrishnaGandhi(b.1945)14Dec200924Jan2010DevanandKonwar(b.1943?)24Jan20104Jul2014MayankoteKelathNarayanan(b.1934)4Jul201424Jul2014D.Y.Patil(b.1935)24Jul2014KeshariNathTripathi(b.1934)

    Chiefministers15Aug194714Jan1948PrafullaGhosh(1sttime)(b.1891d.1983)INC14Jan19481Jul1962BidhanChandraRoy(b.1882d.1962)INC1Jul19628Jul1962President'srule8Jul196215Mar1967PrafullaSen(b.1897d.1990)INC

  • 15Mar19672Nov1967AjoyKumarMukherjee(1sttime)(b.1901d.1986)BAC2Nov196720Feb1968PrafullaGhosh(2ndtime)(s.a.)IPDAF20Feb196825Feb1969President'srule25Feb196919Mar1970AjoyKumarMukherjee(2ndtime)(s.a.)BAC19Mar19702Apr1971President'srule2Apr197128Jun1971PrafullaGhosh(3rdtime)(s.a.)INC28Jun197119Mar1972President'srule19Mar197221Jun1977SiddhartaShankarRay(b.1920d.2010)INC21Jun19776Nov2000JyotiBasu(b.1914d.2010)CPIM6Nov200020May2011BuddhadevBhattacharya(b.1944)CPIM20May2011MamataBanerjee(f)(b.1955)AITMC

    Chandernagor

    20Jun1949ChandernagorvotestojoinIndia.2May1950TransferredtoIndia,formallyfrom11Apr1952(previouslypartofFrenchIndia).2Oct1954PartofWestBengal.

    IndianCommissionerJul19492May1950BasantaKumarBandopadhyayAdministrators2May19501952BasantaKumarBanerjee19522Oct1954SunilbaranRoy

    Gorkhaland

    14Mar2012GorkhalandterritorialadministrationautonomouswithinWestBengal.

    Chiefexecutiveofficers4Aug201230Jul2013BimalGurung(b.1966?)GJM27Sep2013BenoyTamangGJM

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