| 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 |
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