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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 14 January 1980 Janata Party (Secular)
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[§] 22 May 2004 Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA)
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 Incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA)
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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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