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The charter Act 1833 re-designated the office with the title of Governor-General of India. William Bentinck was the first to be designated as the Governor-general of India in 1833. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the company rule was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the ...
The governor is de jure head of the state government; all its executive actions are taken in the governor's name. However, the governor must act on the advice of the popularly elected council of ministers , headed by the chief minister , which thus holds de facto executive authority at the state-level.
List of governors of Bengal Presidency (1758–1947) List of governors of Bombay Presidency (1662–1948), also post-independence; List of governors of Punjab (British India) (1921–1947) List of commissioners and governors of Sind (British India) List of governors of the United Provinces of British India (1921–1937, United Kingdom)
The current head of state of India is Droupadi Murmu, elected in 2022 after being nominated by the National Democratic Alliance. From 1947 to 1950, the head of state under the Indian Independence Act 1947 was King of India, [1] [2] who was also the monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions of the British Commonwealth.
All Viceroys were also Governors-General. In 1950 the duties and functions of the King of India and Governor-General of India were merged in to a President of India. After partition of the Indian Empire in 1947 the Muslim areas were taken over by a Governor-General of Pakistan
7 May 2021 (3 years, 231 days) All India N.R. Congress: Rangaswamy IV [25] Punjab: Bhagwant Mann: 16 March 2022 (2 years, 283 days) Aam Aadmi Party: INDIA: Mann [26] Rajasthan: Bhajan Lal Sharma: 15 December 2023 (1 year, 9 days) Bharatiya Janata Party: NDA: Sharma [27] Sikkim: Prem Singh Tamang: 27 May 2019 (5 years, 211 days) Sikkim ...
There have been 15 presidents of India since the post was established when India was declared as a republic with the adoption of the Indian constitution in 1950. [4] Apart from these fifteen, three acting presidents have also been in office for short periods of time. V. V. Giri became the acting president in 1969 after Zakir Husain died in ...
Sanjiv Khanna, the incumbent chief justice of India, since 11 November 2024 The chief justice of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In ...