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List of prime ministers of India

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This is a list of prime ministers of India.

N Portrait Name Term of office Notable events Emperor
1 Amir Nizamuddin Khalifa 1526 1540 1st Battle of panipat

Battle of Khanwa

Babur (1526 – 1530)

& Humayun (1530 – 1540)

2 Qaracha Khan 1540 1550 He was a governor of qandhar and humayun appoint him as Grand-Vizier of the Mughal State. Humayun (1530 – 1556)
3 Bairam Khan[1] 1550 1560 Akbar-i-Azam
اکبر اعظم‎
(1556-1605)
4 Munim Khan 1560 1565
5 Muzaffar Khan Turbati[2] 1575 1579 No Vakil was appointed after his appointment to governorship in Bengal from 1579 until 1589
6 Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak[3] 1579 1602
7 Khanzada Abdur Rahim[1] 1589 1595
8 Mirza Aziz Koka[1] 1595 1605
9 Sharif Khan[1] 1605 1611 Jahangir
جہانگیر‎
(1605-1627)
10 Mirza Ghias Beg[1] 1611 1622
11 Abu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan[1] 1622 1630
12 Afzal Khan Shirazi[1] 1630 1639 Shah Jahan
شاہ جہان‎
(1628-1658)
13 Islam Khan Mashadi[1] 1639 1640
14 Shaikh Ilam-ud-Din Ansari[4] 1640 1642
15 Sadullah Khan[5] 1642 1656
16 Mir Jumla[6] 1656 1657 Alamgir I
عالمگیر‎
(1658-1707)
17 Jafar Khan[7] 1657 1658
18 Fazil Khan[8] 1658 1663
(17) Jafar Khan[9] 1663 1670 [10]
19 Asad Khan[11] 1675 1707
20 Mun'im Khan[12] 1707 1711 Bahadur Shah I
بہادر شاہ‎
(1707-1712)
21 Hidayatullah Khan[13] 1711 1713 Jahandar Shah
جہاندار شاہ‎
(1712-1713)
22 Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung[14] 1712 1713
23 Mir Rustam Ali Khan[1] 1710 1737 Farrukhsiyar
فرخ سیر‎
(1713–1719)
24 Sayyid Hassan Ali Khan Barha[15] 1713 1720
  • Mughal throne occupied by a series of puppet rulers under the Syed brothers.[16]
25 Muhammad Amin Khan Turani[17] 1720 1721 Muhammad Shah
محمد شاہ‎
(1719-1748)
26 Mir Qamar-ud-Din Khan Asaf Jah I[18] 1721 1724
27 Mir Fazil Qamar-ud-Din Khan 1724 1731
28 Saadat Ali Khan I 1731 19 March 1739
(27) Mir Fazil Qamar-ud-Din Khan 19 March 1739 1748
29 Safdar Jang[19] 1748 1753 Ahmad Shah Bahadur
احمد شاہ بہادر‎
(1748-1754)
30 Intizam-ud-Daulah[20] 1753 1754
31 Muhammad Muqim 1 October 1754 5 October 1754
32 Imad-ul-Mulk Feroze Jung[21] 1754 1760 Alamgir II
عالمگیر دوم‎
(1754-1759)
33

Jalal-ud-din Haider Abul-Mansur Khan

1760 1775 Shah Alam II
شاہ عالم دوم‎
(1760-1806)
34 Mirza Jawan Bakht 1760 1775
35 Asaf-ud-Daula 1775 1784
(34) Mirza Jawan Bakht 1784 1784
(35) Asaf-ud-Daula 1784 1797
36 Wazir Ali Khan 21 September 1797  21 January 1798

List of Prime Minister Mughal

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N Portrait Personal Name Reign Birth Death
(36) Wazir Ali Khanوزیر علی خان‎ 21 September 1797 – 21 January 1798 1780 1817
37 Saadat Ali Khan IIسعادت علی خان‎ 21 January 1798 – 11 July 1814 1752 1814
38 Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar Shahغازی الدیں حیدر شاہ‎ 11 July 1814 – 19 October 1827 1769 1827
39 Nasir-ud-Din Haidar Shahناصر الدیں حیدر شاہ‎ 19 October 1827 – 7 July 1837 1827 1837
40 Muhammad Ali Shahمحمّد علی شاہ‎ 7 July 1837 – 7 May 1842 1777 1842
42 Amjad Ali Shahامجد علی شاہ‎ 7 May 1842 – 13 February 1847 1801 1847
43 Wajid Ali Shahواجد علی شاہ‎ 13 February 1847 – 11 February 1856 1822 1 September 1887
44 Begum hazrat Mahalبیگم حضرت محل‎ 11 February 1856 – 5 July1857

Wife of Wajid Ali Shah and mother of Birjis Qadra (in rebellion)

1820 7 April 1879
45 Birjis Qadrبر جیس قدر‎ 5 July 1857 – 3 March 1858

(in rebellion)

1845 14 August 1893

List of Prime Minister Mughal

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N Portrait Birth Name Reign Birth Death Notes
46 Abu Zafar Siraj al-Din Muhammad
3 March 1858 – 7 November 1862

(19 years, 360 days)

24 October 1775 Delhi, India 7 November 1862 (aged 87) Rangoon, Myanmar Last Mughal Emperor. Deposed by the British and was exiled to Burma after the rebellion of 1857.

List of prime ministers of India

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No. Portrait Name
(birth and death) 		Term of office Party
Took office Left office
47 Charles Wood 1862 1862 Independent
48 Jung Bahadur Rana 1862 1862
49 Dost Mohammad Khan 1862 1862
50 Jyotirao Phule 1862 1863
51 James Bruce 1863 1863
52 Dayananda Saraswati 1863 1863
53 Ramakrishna 1863 1863
54 Sher Ali Khan 1863 1863
55 Takht Singh 1863 1863
56 John Lawrence 1863 1863
57 Debendranath Tagore 1863 1870
58 Syed Ahmad Khan 1870 1875
59 Mohsin-ul-Mulk 1875 1880
60 Mir Turab Ali Khan, Salar Jung I 1880 1883
61 Ranodip Singh Kunwar 1883 1883
62 Mir Laiq Ali Khan, Salar Jung II 1883 1883
63 Keshub Chandra Sen 1883 1883
64 Herbert Spencer 1884 1885
65 Bhikaiji Cama 1885 1885
66 Abhayananda 1885 1885
67 Jaswant Singh II 1885 1885
68 John Wodehouse 1885 1885
69 Frederick Hamilton 1885 1885

List of prime ministers of India

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Legend
No. Portrait Name Term of office Appointed by Party
70 An image of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1885 Bombay Indian National Congress
71 An image of Dadabhai Naoroji. Dadabhai Naoroji 1886 Calcutta
72 An image of Badruddin Tyabji. Badruddin Tyabji 1887 Madras
73 An image of George Yule. George Yule 1888 Allahabad
74 An image of William Wedderburn. William Wedderburn 1889 Bombay
75 An image of Pherozesha Mehta. Pherozeshah Mehta 1890 Calcutta
76 Panapakkam Anandacharlu 1891 Nagpur
(70)

)

An image of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1892 Allahabad
(71) An image of Dadabhai Naoroji. Dadabhai Naoroji 1893 Lahore
77 An image of Alfred Webb. Alfred Webb 1894 Madras
78 An image of Surendranath Banerjee. Surendranath Banerjee 1895 Poona
79 An image of Rahimtulla M. Sayani. Rahimtulla M. Sayani 1896 Calcutta
80 An image of C Sankaran Nair. C. Sankaran Nair 1897 Amaravati
81 An image of Anandamohan Bose. Anandamohan Bose 1898 Madras
82 An image of Romesh Chunder Dutt. Romesh Chunder Dutt 1899 Lucknow
83 An image of N. G. Chandavarkar. N. G. Chandavarkar 1900 Lahore
84 An image of Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. Dinshaw Edulji Wacha 1901 Calcutta Indian National Congress
85 Swami Vivekananda 1902
86 An image of Surendranath Banerjee. Surendranath Banerjee 1902 Ahmedabad
87 Lalmohan Ghosh 1903 Madras
88 An image of Henry Cotton. Henry John Stedman Cotton 1904 Bombay
89 An image of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1905 Banaras
90 An image of Dadabhai Naoroji. Dadabhai Naoroji 1906 Calcutta
91 An image of Rashbihari Ghosh. Rashbihari Ghosh 1907 Surat
1908 Madras
92 An image of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Madan Mohan Malaviya 1909 Lahore
93 An image of William Wedderburn. William Wedderburn 1910 Allahabad
94 Bishan Narayan Dar 1911 Calcutta
95 An image of Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar. Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar 1912 Bankipore
96 Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur 1913 Karachi
97 Bhupendra Nath Bose 1914 Madras
98 An image of Satyendra Prasanno Sinha. Satyendra Prasanno Sinha 1915 Bombay
99 An image of Ambica Charan Mazumdar. Ambica Charan Mazumdar 1915 Lucknow

List of prime ministers of India

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No. Portrait Name
(birth and death) 		Term of office Party
Took office Left office
100 Raja Mahendra Pratap

(1 December 1886 – 29 April 1979)

1915 1919 Independent
101 Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah

(7 July 1854 – 20 September 1927)

1919 1919 Independent
102 Hari Singh Gour

(26 November 1870 – 25 December 1949)

1919 1923 Independent
103 Motilal Nehru

(6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931)

1923 1930 Independent
104 Jawaharlal Nehru

(1889 –1964)

1930 1932 Independent
– Hari Singh Gour

(26 November 1870 – 25 December 1949)

1932 1934 Independent
105 Bhulabhai Desai

(13 October 1877 – 6 May 1946)

1934 1936 Independent
106 Abul Kalam Azad

( 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958)

1936 1943 Independent
107 Mahatma Gandhi

(2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)

1 July 1943 6 July 1943 Independent
108 Vallabhbhai Patel

( 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950)

6 July 1943 6 July 1943 Independent
119 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948)

6 July 1943 6 July 1943 Independent
110 Liaquat Ali Khan

(1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951)

6 July 1943 6 July 1943 Independent
111 Subhash Chandra Bose
(1898–1945) 		6 July 1943 18 August 1945 Indian National Army
(104) Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964) 		18 August 1945 15 April 1952 Indian National Congress
15 April 1952 17 April 1957
17 April 1957 2 April 1962
2 April 1962 27 May 1964†
112 Gulzarilal Nanda
(1898–1998) 		27 May 1964 9 June 1964
113 Lal Bahadur Shastri
(1904–1966) 		9 June 1964 11 January 1966†
– Gulzarilal Nanda
(1898–1998) 		11 January 1966 24 January 1966
114 Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984) 		24 January 1966 4 March 1967
4 March 1967 15 March 1971
15 March 1971 24 March 1977
115 Morarji Desai
(1896–1995) 		24 March 1977 28 July 1979 Janata Party
116 Jagjivan Ram

(1908–1986)

28 July 1979 28 July 1979
117 Charan Singh
(1902–1987) 		28 July 1979 8 January 1980[RES] Janata Party (Secular)
118 Yashwantrao Chavan

(1913–1984)

8 January 1980 10 January 1980
(117) Charan Singh

(1902–1987)

10 January 1980 14 January 1980
(114) Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984) 		14 January 1980[§] 31 October 1984† Indian National Congress (I)
119 Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991) 		31 October 1984 31 December 1984
31 December 1984 2 December 1989
120 Vishwanath Pratap Singh
(1931–2008) 		2 December 1989 10 November 1990[NC] Janata Dal
(National Front)
121 Devi Lal

(1915–2001)

10 November 1990 10 November 1990 Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
122 Chandra Shekhar
(1927–2007) 		10 November 1990 21 June 1991[RES]
123 P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004) 		21 June 1991 16 May 1996 Indian National Congress (I)
124 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018) 		16 May 1996 1 June 1996[RES] Bharatiya Janata Party
125 H. D. Deve Gowda
(born 1933) 		1 June 1996 21 April 1997[RES] Janata Dal
(United Front)
126 Inder Kumar Gujral
(1919–2012) 		21 April 1997 19 March 1998[RES]
(124) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018) 		19 March 1998[§] 13 October 1999[NC] Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA)
13 October 1999 22 May 2002
127 Lal Krishna Advani

(1927–)

22 May 2002 22 May 2002
(124) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

(1924–2018)

22 May 2002 22 May 2004
128 An image of Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi(1946 –) 22 May 2004 22 May 2004 Indian National Congress
(UPA)
129 Manmohan Singh
(born 1932) 		22 May 2004 22 May 2009
22 May 2009 26 May 2014
130 Narendra Modi
(born 1950) 		26 May 2014 30 May 2019 Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA)
30 May 2019 Incumbent
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Footnotes

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  • † Assassinated or died in office
  • § Returned to office after a previous non-consecutive term
  • RES Resigned
  • NC Resigned following a no-confidence motion

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Sharma, Gauri (2006). Prime Ministers Under the Mughals 1526-1707. Kanishka, New Delhi. ISBN 8173918236.
  2. ↑ Satish Chandra (2005). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals Part - II. Har-Anand Publications. p. 136.
  3. ↑ Alfred J. Andrea, James H. Overfield. The Human Record: To 1700. Houghton Mifflin. p. 476. Abul Fazl(1551-1602), the emperor's chief advisor and confidant from 1579 until Abul Fazl's assassination at the instigation of Prince Salim, the future Emperor Jahangir(r. 1605-1627)
  4. ↑ Abraham Richard Fuller (1990). The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: An Abridged History of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. University of Michigan. p. 602.
  5. ↑ Adolf Simon Waley (1927). The Shah Jahan Nama of 'Inayat Khan: An Abridged History of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, Compiled by His Royal Librarian : the Nineteenth-century Manuscript Translation of A.R. Fuller (British Library, Add. 30,777). Constable.
  6. ↑ Indian Institute of Public Administration (1976). The Indian Journal of Public Administration: Quarterly Journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Volume 22. The Institute.
  7. ↑ Indian History Congress - Proceedings: Volume 42. Indian History Congress. 1981.
  8. ↑ Indian History Congress - Proceedings: Volume 42. Indian History Congress. 1981.
  9. ↑ Indian Institute of Public Administration (1976). The Indian Journal of Public Administration: Quarterly Journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Volume 22. The Institute.
  10. ↑ Indian History Congress Proceedings: Volume 42. Indian History Congress. 1981.
  11. ↑ Krieger-Krynicki, Annie (2005). Captive Princess: Zebunissa, Daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb. University of Michigan. ISBN 0195798376.
  12. ↑ Kaicker, Abhishek (3 Feb 2020). The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190070687.
  13. ↑ William Irvine. Later Mughals. p. 128.
  14. ↑ John F. Richards, The New Cambridge History of India: The Mughal Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 262
  15. ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (2009). Britannica Guide to India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ISBN 978-1593398477.
  16. ↑ C. K. Srinivasan (1962). Baji Rao I, the Great Peshwa. p. 22.
  17. ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (2009). Britannica Guide to India. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ISBN 978-1593398477.
  18. ↑ Disha Experts (17 Dec 2018). The History Compendium for IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1 & State PSC Exams 3rd Edition. Disha Publications. ISBN 978-9388373036.
  19. ↑ Disha Experts (17 Dec 2018). The History Compendium for IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1 & State PSC Exams 3rd Edition. Disha Publications. ISBN 978-9388373036.
  20. ↑ Khwaja, Sehar. "Fosterage and Motherhood in the Mughal Harem: Intimate Relations and the Political System in Eighteenth-Century India." Social Scientist 46, no. 5-6 (2018): 39-60. Accessed August 7, 2020. doi:10.2307/26530803.
  21. ↑ Khwaja, Sehar. "Fosterage and Motherhood in the Mughal Harem: Intimate Relations and the Political System in Eighteenth-Century India." Social Scientist 46, no. 5-6 (2018): 39-60. Accessed August 7, 2020. doi:10.2307/26530803.
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