List of prime ministers of India

This is a list of prime ministers of India.

Mughal Empire

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 ministers of the Republic of India

No.	Portrait	Name (birth and death)	Term of office		Party
			Took office	Left office
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
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

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