Post-Independence [c. 1947 CE-present]

Outline

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Copyright © 1978 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, assigned 1988 to Joseph E. Schwartzberg, additional material copyright © 1992 by Joseph E. Schwartzberg.

See 1992 edition here.

See division of region here.

Rulers

India (August 15, 1947 CE-present)

PRESIDENTS
Rajendra Prasad	26 January 1950 - 13 May 1962
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1962 - 13 May 1967
Zakir Husain	13 May 1962 - 13 May 1967
Varahagiri Venkata Giri	3 May 1969 - 20 July 1969
Mohammad Hidayatullah	20 July 1969 - 24 August 1969
Varahagiri Venkata Giri	24 August 1969 - 24 August 1974
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	24 August 1974 - 11 February 1977
Basappa Danappa Jatti	11 February 1977 - 25 July 1977
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25 July 1977 - 25 July 1982
Giani Zail Singh	25 July 1982 - 25 July 1987
Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25 July 1987 - 25 July 1992
Shankar Dayal Sharma	25 July 1992 - 25 July 1997
Kocheril Raman Narayanan	25 July 1997 - 25 July 2002
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam	25 July 2002 - 25 July 2007
Pratibha Patil	25 July 2007 - 25 July 2012
Pranab Mukherjee	25 July 2012 - 25 July 2017
Ram Nath Kovind	25 July 2017 - Incumbent (Term ends on 25 July 2022)

PRIME MINISTERS
Jawaharlal Nehru	15 August 1947 - 27 May 1964
Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)	27 May 1964 - 9 June 1964
Lal Bahadur Shastri	9 June 1964 - 11 January 1966
Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)	11 January 1966 - 24 January 1966
Indira Gandhi	24 January 1966 - 24 March 1977
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai	24 March 1977 - 28 July 1979
Chaudhary Charan Singh	28 July 1979 - 14 January 1980
Indira Gandhi	14 January 1980 - 31 October 1984
Rajiv Gandhi	31 October 1984 - 2 December 1989
Vishwanath Pratap Singh	2 December 1989 - 10 November 1990
Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990 - 21 June 1991
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao	21 June 1991 - 16 May 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996 - 1 June 1996
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda	1 June 1996 - 21 April 1997
Inder Kumar Gujral	21 April 1997 - 19 March 1998
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	19 March 1998 - 22 May 2004
Manmohan Singh	22 May 2004 - 26 May 2014
Narendra Damodardas Modi	26 May 2014 - Incumbent

PAKISTAN (August 14, 1947 - present)
PRESIDENTS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Pakistan
PRIME MINISTERS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Pakistan

EAST PAKISTAN (1947 - 1971)
GOVERNORS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan
CHIEF MINISTERS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan_Provincial_Assembly

BANGLADESH (1971 - present)
PRESIDENTS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Bangladesh
PRIME MINISTERS	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Bangladesh