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This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War.
Governor of Assam | |
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Style | His Excellency |
Residence | Raj Bhawan, Guwahati |
Appointer | President of India |
Term length | 5 Years |
Inaugural holder | Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari (Independent India) Nicholas Beatson-Bell (Pre-Independent India) |
Formation | 3 January 1921 |
The governor of Assam is a nominal head and representative of the president of India in the state of Assam. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. The current governor is Lakshman Acharya.
The governor has:
In 1824, British forces occupied Assam, which was politically never part of either India or Burma
On 24 February 1826, the Treaty of Yandaboo ceded portions of Assam from Burma to Britain.
In 1828, Western Assam was incorporated into the province of Bengal, followed by the rest of Assam in 1833. A commissioner of Assam was appointed, subordinate to the governor of Bengal.
In 1874, Assam was separated from the Bengal Presidency, and its status was upgraded to a chief commissioner's province.
In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor.
In 1912, East Bengal was re-incorporated into the Bengal presidency, and Assam Province was again governed by a chief commissioner.
In 1921, the chief commissionership was upgraded to governor.
No. | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Duration |
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1 | Sir Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari | 15 Aug 1947 | 29 Dec 1948 | ||
- | Sir Ronald Francis Lodge (acting) | 30 December 1948 | 15 February 1949 | ||
2 | Sri Prakasa | 16 Feb 1949 | 26 May 1950 | ||
3 | Jairamdas Daulatram | 27 May 1950 | 14 May 1956 | ||
4 | Saiyid Fazal Ali | 15 May 1956 | 22 August 1959 | ||
5 | Chandreswar Prasad Sinha | 23 August 1959 | 13 October 1959 | ||
6 | General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 14 October 1959 | 12 November 1960 | ||
7 | Vishnu Sahay | 13 November 1960 | 12 February 1961 | ||
(6) | General (Retired) Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh | 13 February 1961 | 7 September 1962 | ||
(7) | Vishnu Sahay | 8 September 1962 | 16 April 1968 | ||
8 | Braj Kumar Nehru | 17 April 1968 | 7 December 1970 | ||
- | Justice Parbati Kumar Goswami (acting for Nehru) |
8 December 1970 | 4 January 1971 | ||
(8) | Braj Kumar Nehru | 5 January 1971 | 18 September 1973 | ||
9 | Lallan Prasad Singh | 19 September 1973 | 11 August 1981 | ||
10 | Prakash Mehrotra | 12 August 1981 | 28 March 1984 | ||
11 | Justice Tribeni Sahai Misra | 29 March 1984 | 15 April 1984 | ||
12 | Bhishma Narain Singh | 16 April 1984 | 11 May 1989 | ||
13 | Harideo Joshi | 12 May 1989 | 26 July 1989 | ||
14 | Justice Anisetti Raghuvir | 27 July 1989 | 1 May 1990 | ||
15 | Justice Devi Das Thakur | 2 May 1990 | 16 March 1991 | ||
16 | Loknath Mishra | 17 March 1991 | 31 August 1997 | ||
17 | Lt. General (Retired) Srinivas Kumar Sinha | 1 September 1997 | 20 April 2003 | ||
18 | Arvind Dave | 21 April 2003 | 4 June 2003 | ||
19 | Lt. General (Retired) Ajai Singh | 5 June 2003 | 3 July 2008 | ||
20 | Shiv Charan Mathur | 4 July 2008 | 25 June 2009 | ||
21 | K Sankaranarayanan | 26 June 2009 | 26 July 2009 | ||
22 | Syed Sibtey Razi | 27 July 2009 | 10 December 2009 | ||
23 | Janaki Ballabh Patnaik | 11 November 2009 | 11 December 2014 | ||
24 | Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya | 12 December 2014 [1] | 21 August 2016 | ||
25 | Banwarilal Purohit | 22 August 2016 [2] | 9 October 2017 | ||
26 | Jagdish Mukhi | 10 October 2017[3] | 14 February 2023 | ||
27 | Gulab Chand Kataria | 22 February 2023 | 29 July 2024 | ||
28 | Lakshman Prasad Acharya | 30 July 2024 | Incumbent |
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