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 |
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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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