List of prime ministers of India

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	Taj Mahal completed
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	Mughal–Maratha Wars Anglo-Mughal War
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	Battle of Delhi (1737) Battle of Bhopal Nader Shah's invasion of Mughal Empire Battle of Karnal First invasion of Ahmad Shah Durrani Battle of Manupur (1748)
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	Second invasion of Ahmad Shah Durrani Third invasion of Ahmad Shah Durrani Battle of Lahore (1752)	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	Black Hole of Calcutta Battle of Plassey	Alamgir II عالمگیر دوم‎ (1754-1759)
33		Jalal-ud-din Haider Abul-Mansur Khan	1760	1775	Third Battle of Panipat Battle of Buxar Treaty of Allahabad	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

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

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

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

Legend

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office	Appointed by	Party
70		Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	1885	Bombay	Indian National Congress
71		Dadabhai Naoroji	1886	Calcutta
72		Badruddin Tyabji	1887	Madras
73		George Yule	1888	Allahabad
74		William Wedderburn	1889	Bombay
75		Pherozeshah Mehta	1890	Calcutta
76		Panapakkam Anandacharlu	1891	Nagpur
(70) )		Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	1892	Allahabad
(71)		Dadabhai Naoroji	1893	Lahore
77		Alfred Webb	1894	Madras
78		Surendranath Banerjee	1895	Poona
79		Rahimtulla M. Sayani	1896	Calcutta
80		C. Sankaran Nair	1897	Amaravati
81		Anandamohan Bose	1898	Madras
82		Romesh Chunder Dutt	1899	Lucknow
83		N. G. Chandavarkar	1900	Lahore
84		Dinshaw Edulji Wacha	1901	Calcutta	Indian National Congress
85		Swami Vivekananda	1902
86		Surendranath Banerjee	1902	Ahmedabad
87		Lalmohan Ghosh	1903	Madras
88		Henry John Stedman Cotton	1904	Bombay
89		Gopal Krishna Gokhale	1905	Banaras
90		Dadabhai Naoroji	1906	Calcutta
91		Rashbihari Ghosh	1907	Surat
			1908	Madras
92		Madan Mohan Malaviya	1909	Lahore
93		William Wedderburn	1910	Allahabad
94		Bishan Narayan Dar	1911	Calcutta
95		Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar	1912	Bankipore
96		Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur	1913	Karachi
97		Bhupendra Nath Bose	1914	Madras
98		Satyendra Prasanno Sinha	1915	Bombay
99		Ambica Charan Mazumdar	1915	Lucknow

List of prime ministers of India

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 (1897- 1945)	6 July 1943	18 August 1945	Indian National Army
112		Jawaharlal Nehru (1889- 1964)	18 August 1945	15 August 1947	Indian National Congress
-		After Independence (below)
1		Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)	15 August 1947	15 April 1952	Indian National Congress
			15 April 1952	17 April 1957
			17 April 1957	2 April 1962
			2 April 1962	27 May 1964†
Acting		Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998)	27 May 1964	9 June 1964
2		Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966)	9 June 1964	11 January 1966†
–		Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998)	11 January 1966	24 January 1966
3		Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)	24 January 1966	4 March 1967
			4 March 1967	15 March 1971
			15 March 1971	24 March 1977
4		Morarji Desai (1896–1995)	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	Janata Party
Acting		Jagjivan Ram (1908–1986)	28 July 1979	28 July 1979
5		Charan Singh (1902–1987)	28 July 1979	8 January 1980[RES]	Janata Party (Secular)
Acting		Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984)	8 January 1980	10 January 1980
6		Charan Singh (1902–1987)	10 January 1980	14 January 1980
7		Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)	14 January 1980[§]	31 October 1984†	Indian National Congress (I)
8		Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)	31 October 1984	31 December 1984
			31 December 1984	2 December 1989
9		Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990[NC]	Janata Dal (National Front)
Acting		Devi Lal (1915–2001)	10 November 1990	10 November 1990	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
10		Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)	10 November 1990	21 June 1991[RES]
11		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004)	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress (I)
12		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)	16 May 1996	1 June 1996[RES]	Bharatiya Janata Party
13		H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933)	1 June 1996	21 April 1997[RES]	Janata Dal (United Front)
14		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)	21 April 1997	19 March 1998[RES]
15		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)	19 March 1998[§]	13 October 1999[NC]	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)
			13 October 1999	22 May 2002
Acting		Lal Krishna Advani (1927–)	22 May 2002	22 May 2002
16		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)	22 May 2002	22 May 2004
Acting		Sonia Gandhi(1946 –)	22 May 2004	22 May 2004	Indian National Congress (UPA)
17		Manmohan Singh (1932- 2024)	22 May 2004	22 May 2009
			22 May 2009	26 May 2014
18		Narendra Modi (born 1950)	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)
			30 May 2019 9 Jun 2024	9 Jun 2024 Incumbent

Related pages

• President of India
• Vice President of India
• List of presidents of India
• List of vice presidents of India
• Mughal Empire

Footnotes

• ^† 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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