Chief of The Army Staff (India) - Appointees

Appointees

The following table chronicles the appointees to the office of the Chief of the Army Staff or its preceding positions since the independence of India.

No. Name Rank Appointment Date Left Office Unit of Commission Decorations
1 Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart* General 15 August 1947 31 December 1947 Infantry - 51 Sikhs Frontier Force KCB, CIE, MC
2 Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher* General 1 January 1948 15 January 1949 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) KBE, CB, MC
3 Kodandera Madappa Cariappa Field Marshal 16 January 1949 14 January 1953 Infantry - Rajput Regiment OBE
4 Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja General 15 January 1953 14 May 1955 Armoured Corps, 2nd Lancers DSO
5 Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh General 15 May 1955 7 May 1957 Infantry - Kumaon Regiment
6 Kodandera Subayya Thimayya General 8 May 1957 7 May 1961 Infantry - Kumaon Regiment Padma Vibhushan, DSO, ADC
7 Pran Nath Thapar General 8 May 1961 19 November 1962 Infantry - 1st Punjab Regiment
8 Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri General 20 November 1962 7 June 1966 Armoured Corps, 16th Light Cavalry and 7th Light Cavalry Padma Vibhushan, OBE
9 Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam General 8 June 1966 7 June 1969 Regiment of Artillery Padma Vibhushan, DSO, MBE
10 Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw Field Marshal 8 June 1969 15 January 1973 Infantry - 8 Gorkha Rifles Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, MC
11 Gopal Gurunath Bewoor General 16 January 1973 31 May 1975 Infantry - 11 Gorkha Rifles and Dogra PVSM
12 Tapishwar Narain Raina General 1 June 1975 31 May 1978 Infantry - Kumaon Regiment Padma Bhushan MVC
13 Om Prakash Malhotra General 1 June 1978 31 May 1981 Regiment of Artillery PVSM
14 Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao General 1 June 1981 31 July 1983 Infantry - Mahar Regiment PVSM
15 Arun Shridhar Vaidya General 1 August 1983 31 January 1985 Armoured Corps, Deccan Horse Padma Vibhushan, PVSM, MVC(Bar), AVSM
16 Krishnaswamy Sundarji General 1 February 1985 31 May 1988 Infantry - Mahar Regiment PVSM, ADC
17 Vishwa Nath Sharma General 1 June 1988 30 June 1990 Armoured Corps, 16th Light Cavalry PVSM, AVSM, ADC
18 Sunith Francis Rodrigues General 1 July 1990 30 June 1993 Regiment of Artillery PVSM, VSM
19 Bipin Chandra Joshi General 1 July 1993 19 November 1994 Armoured Corps, 64 Cavalry PVSM, AVSM, ADC
20 Shankar Roychowdhury General 20 November 1994 30 September 1997 Armoured Corps, 20 lancers PVSM, ADC
21 Ved Prakash Malik General 1 October 1997 30 September 2000 Infantry - Sikh Light Infantry PVSM, AVSM, ADC
22 Sundararajan Padmanabhan General 1 October 2000 30 December 2002 Regiment of Artillery PVSM, AVSM,VSM, ADC
23 Nirmal Chander Vij General 31 December 2002 31 January 2005 Infantry - Dogra Regiment PVSM, UYSM, AVSM
24 Joginder Jaswant Singh General 31 January 2005 30 September 2007 Infantry - Maratha Light Infantry PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC
25 Deepak Kapoor General 30 September 2007 31 March 2010 Regiment of Artillery PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC
26 Vijay Kumar Singh General 31 March 2010 31 May 2012 Infantry - Rajput Regiment PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC
27 Bikram Singh General 31 May 2012 Current Infantry - Sikh Light Infantry

PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, SM, ADC

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