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List of prime ministers of India

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This is a list of prime ministers of India.

Mughal Empire

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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 ministers of the Republic of India

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No. Portrait Name
(birth and death) 		Term of office Party
Took office Left office
1 Jawaharlal Nehru 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
5 Charan Singh
(1902–1987) 		28 July 1979 8 January 1980[RES] Janata Party (Secular)
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)
10 Chandra Shekhar
(1927–2007) 		10 November 1990 21 June 1991[RES] Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
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
16 Atal Bihari Vajpayee

(1924–2018)

22 May 2002 22 May 2004
17 Manmohan Singh
(1932- 2024) 		22 May 2004 22 May 2009 Indian National Congress
(UPA)
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

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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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