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List of governors of Assam

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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2015}}

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{{Infobox official post

| post = Governor of Assam

| insignia =File:Seal of Assam.svg

| insigniasize =

| insigniacaption = Emblem of Assam

| image = 200px

|incumbent = Lakshman Prasad Acharya

|incumbentsince = 30 July 2024

|style = His Excellency

|residence = Raj Bhawan, Guwahati

|termlength = At the pleasure of the President

|appointer = President of India

|formation = {{start date and years ago|df=yes|1824|01|03}}

|inaugural =Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari {{small|(Independent India)}}

Nicholas Beatson-Bell {{small|(Pre-Independent India)}}

| website = https://rajbhavan.assam.gov.in

}}

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.

The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Lakshman Acharya.

Powers and functions

{{see also|Governors of India#Powers and functions}}

The governor has:

  • Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals
  • Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad
  • Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor

British military commanders in occupied Assam (1824–26)

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{{Abbr|No.|Number}}

!Name

!Portrait

!Took office

!Left office

1

|George McMorine

|

|1824

|1824

2

|Arthur Richards

|

|1824

|1826

Commissioners of Assam (1826–1905)

On 24 February 1826, the Treaty of Yandaboo ceded portions of Assam from Burma to Britain.In 1826, 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.Chief commissioners of Assam (1874–1905)

In 1874, Assam was separated from the Bengal Presidency, and its status was upgraded to a chief commissioner's province.

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{{Abbr|No.|Number}}

!Name

!Portrait

!Took office

!Left office

3

|David Scott

|

|1826

|1831

4

|Thomas Campbell Robertson

|

|1831

|1834

5

| Francis Jenkins

|

|1834

|1861

6

| Henry Hopkinson

|

|1861

|1874

7

|Richard Harte Keatinge

|

|1874

|1878

8

|Steuart Colvin Bayley

|

|1878

|1881

9

|Charles Alfred Elliott

|

|1881

|1885

10

|William Erskine Ward

|

|1885

|1887

11

|Dennis Fitzpatrick (colonial administrator)

|

|1887

|1889

12

|James Westland

|

|1889

|1889

13

|James Wallace Quinton

|

|1889

|1891

14

|William Erskine Ward

|

|1891

|1896

15

|Henry John Stedman Cotton

|

|1896

|1902

16

|Joseph Bampfylde Fuller

|

|1902

|1905

Lieutenant governors of East Bengal and Assam (1905–12)

In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor.

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{{Abbr|No.|Number}}

!Name

!Portrait

!Took office

!Left office

!Appointer

17

|Sir Bampfylde Fuller

|

|16 October 1905

|20 August 1906

|The Lord Curzon of Kedleston

18

|Lancelot Hare

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|20 August 1906

|1911

|The Earl of Minto

19

|Sir Charles Stuart Bayley

|

|1911

|21 March 1912

|The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst

Governors of Assam since 1912

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! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}

! Name

!Portrait

! class="unsortable" | Took office

! class=unsortable | Left office

20

|Archdale Earle

|

|1912

|3 January 1918

21

|Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell

|

|3 January 1918

|3 April 1921

22

|Sir William Sinclair Marris

|

|3 April 1921

|10 October 1922

23

|John Henry Kerr

|

|10 October 1922

|28 June 1927

24

|Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond

|

|28 June 1927

|11 May 1932

25

|Michael Keane

|

|11 May 1932

|4 March 1937

26

|Robert Niel Reid

|

|4 March 1937

|24 February 1938

27

|Henry Joseph Twynam

|

|24 February 1938

|4 October 1939

28

|Robert Niel Reid

|

|4 October 1939

|4 May 1942

29

|Andrew Gourlay Clow

|

|4 May 1942

|4 April 1946

30

|Frederick Chalmers Bourne

|

|4 April 1946

|4 September 1946

31

|Henry Foley Knight

|

|4 September 1946

|23 December 1946

32

|Andrew Gourlay Clow

|

|23 December 1946

|4 May 1947

33

|Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari

|

|4 May 1947

|15 Aug 1947

(33)

| Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari

|

| 15 Aug 1947

| 29 Dec 1948

34

|Ronald Francis Lodge

|

| 30 December 1948

| 15 February 1949

35

| Sri Prakasa

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| 16 Feb 1949

| 26 May 1950

36

| Jairamdas Daulatram

| 87x87px

| 27 May 1950

| 14 May 1956

37

| Saiyid Fazal Ali

|

| 15 May 1956

| 22 August 1959

38

| Chandreswar Prasad Sinha

|

| 23 August 1959

| 13 October 1959

39

| Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh

| 84x84px|| 14 October 1959

|12 November 1960

40

| Vishnu Sahay

| || 13 November 1960

|12 February 1961

41

| Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh

| 84x84px|| 13 February 1961

|7 September 1962

42

| Vishnu Sahay

| || 8 September 1962

|16 April 1968

43

| Braj Kumar Nehru

| 76x76px|| 17 April 1968

|7 December 1970

44

| Parbati Kumar Goswami

| || 8 December 1970

|4 January 1971

45

| Braj Kumar Nehru

| 76x76px|| 5 January 1971

|18 September 1973

46

| Lallan Prasad Singh

| || 19 September 1973

|11 August 1981

47

| Prakash Mehrotra

| 86x86px|| 12 August 1981

|28 March 1984

48

| Tribeni Sahai Misra

| || 29 March 1984

|15 April 1984

49

| Bhishma Narain Singh

| 67x67px|| 16 April 1984

|11 May 1989

50

| Harideo Joshi

| 79x79px|| 12 May 1989

|26 July 1989

51

| Anisetti Raghuvir

| || 27 July 1989

|1 May 1990

52

| Devi Das Thakur

| || 2 May 1990

|16 March 1991

53

| Loknath Mishra

| || 17 March 1991

|31 August 1997

54

| Srinivas Kumar Sinha

| 74x74px|| 1 September 1997

|20 April 2003

55

| Arvind Dave

| || 21 April 2003

|4 June 2003

56

| Ajai Singh

| 80x80px|| 5 June 2003

|3 July 2008

57

| Shiv Charan Mathur

| 81x81px|| 4 July 2008

|25 June 2009

58

| K Sankaranarayanan

| 73x73px|| 26 June 2009

|26 July 2009

59

| Syed Sibtey Razi

| 72x72px|| 27 July 2009

|10 December 2009

60

| Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

| 75x75px|| 11 November 2009

|11 December 2014

61

| Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya

| 60x60px|| 12 December 2014 {{cite news|title=P B Acharya to assume additional charge as Assam Governor|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/p-b-acharya-to-assume-additional-charge-as-assam-governor/|access-date=9 January 2015|work=The Indian Express|date=11 December 2014}}

|21 August 2016

62

| Banwarilal Purohit

| 60x60px|| 22 August 2016 {{Cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/najma-heptulla-mukhi-appointed-governors-116081700886_1.html|title = Najma Heptulla, Mukhi appointed Governors|newspaper = Business Standard India|date = 17 August 2016}}

|9 October 2017

63

| Jagdish Mukhi

| 60x60px|| 10 October 2017{{cite news |last1=The Times of India |title=New governors appointed: All you need to know |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/new-governors-appointed-all-you-need-to-know/articleshow/60893472.cms |access-date=13 December 2023 |date=30 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213135151/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/new-governors-appointed-all-you-need-to-know/articleshow/60893472.cms |archive-date=13 December 2023}}

|14 February 2023

64

| Gulab Chand Kataria

|75px

| 22 February 2023

|29 July 2024

65

| Lakshman Prasad Acharya

| 75x75px|| 30 July 2024

|Incumbent

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

  • [http://assamassembly.nic.in/governor-list.html List of Governors] from [http://assamassembly.nic.in assamassembly.nic.in]
  • http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_states.html#Assam
  • http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_BrProvinces.htm#Assam
  • {{Cite ODNB |title=Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/93241}}

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