Archaeological Survey of India

Directors-General	Tenure
Sir Alexander Cunningham	1871–1885
James Burgess	1886–1889
Sir John Marshall	1902–1928
Harold Hargreaves	1928–1931
Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni	1931–1935
J. F. Blakiston	1935–1937
Rao Bahadur K.N. Dikshit	1937–1944
Mortimer Wheeler	1944–1948
N. P. Chakravarti	1948–1950
Madhav Swaroop Vats	1950–1953
A. Ghosh	1953–1968
B. B. Lal	1968–1972
M. N. Deshpande	1972 - ?
B. K. Thapar	? - ?
Debala Mitra	? - ?
M.S. Nagaraja Rao	? - ?
R.C. Tripathi	? - ?
J.P. Joshi	? - ?
M.C. Joshi	? - ?
K.N. Srivastav	2009 - 2010
Dr. Gautam Sengupta	2010–Present