List of Indian Army Chiefs Since 1947

Name

Took Office

Left Office

Time in Office

Unit of Commission

General Sir Robert Lockhart

15 August, 1947

31 December 1947

108 days

51st Sikhs

General Francis Robert Roy Bucher

1 January 1948

14 January 1949

1 Year, 14 days

Scottish Rifles

Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa

15 January 1949

14 January 1953

3 years, 365 days

Rajput Rifles

General Maharaj Rajendrasinhji Jadeja

14 January 1953

1 April 1955

2 years, 77 days

2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)

General Maharaj Rajendrasinhji Jadeja

1 April 1955

14 May 1955

43 days

2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)

General Satyawant Mallana Sringesh

15 May 1955

7 May 1957

1 year, 357 days

19th Hyderabad Regiment

General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya

8 May 1957

7 May 1961

4 years, 0 days

19th Hyderabad Regiment

General Pran Nath Thapar

8 May 1961

19 November 1962

1 year, 195 days

1st Punjab Regiment

General Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri

20 November 1962

7 June 1966

3 years, 199 days

16th Light Cavalry

General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam

8 June 1966

7 June 1969

2 years, 364 days

Regiment of Artillery

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw

8 June 1969

15 January 1973

3 years, 221 days

8 Gorkha Rifles

General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor

16 January 1973

31 May 1975

2 years, 135 days

Dogra Regiment

General Tapishwar Narain Raina

1 June 1975

31 May 1978

2 years, 364 days

Kumaon Regiment

General Om Prakash Malhotra

1 June 1978

31 May 1981

2 years, 364 days

Regiment of Artillery

General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao

1 June 1981

31 July 1983

1 year, 364 days

Mahar Regiment

General Arun Kumar Shridhar Vaidya

1 August 1983

31 January 1986

2 years, 244 days

9th Deccan House

General Krishnaswamy Sundarji

1 February 1986

31 May 1988

2 years, 120 days

Mahar Regiment

General Vishwa Nath Sharma

1 June 1988

30 June 1990

2 years, 29 days

16th Light Cavalry

General Sunith Francis Rodrigues

1 July 1990

30 June 1993

2 years, 364 days

Regiment of Artillery

General Bipin Chandra Joshi

1 July 1993

19 November 1994

1 year, 141 days

64th Cavalry

General Shankar Roy Chowdhary

20 November 1994

30 September 1997

2 years, 314 days

20th Lancers

General Ved Prakash Malik

1 October 1997

30 September 2000

2 years, 365 days

Sikh Light Infantry

General Sundarajan Padmanabhan

1 October 2000

31 December 2002

2 years, 91 days

Regiment of Artillery

General Nirmal Chander Vij

1 January 2003

31 January 2005

2 years, 30 days

Dogra Regiment

General Joginder Jaswant Singh

1 February 2005

30 September 2007

2 years, 241 days

Maratha Light Infantry

General Deepak Kapoor

1 October 2007

31 March 2010

2 years, 181 days

Regiment of Artillery

General Vijay Kumar Singh

1 April 2010

31 May 2012

2 years, 60 days

Rajput Regiment

General Bikram Singh

1 June 2012

31 July 2014

2 years, 60 days

Sikh Light Infantry

General Dalbir Singh Suhag

1 August 2014

31 December 2016

2 years, 152 days

5 Gorkha Rifles

General Bipin Rawat

31 December 2016

31 December 2019

3 years, 0 days

11 Gorkha Rifles

General Manoj Mukund Naravane

31 December 2019

30 April 2022

2 years, 120 days

7 Sikh Light Infantry

General Manoj Pande

30 April 2022

Incumbent

1 year, 140 days

Corps of Engineers