*LIST OF CHIEF OF THE INDIAN ARMY STAFF

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 in 1947.
No.
Name
Rank
Tenure
27
Bikram Singh
General
31-May-12 to Current
26
Vijay Kumar Singh
General
31-Mar-10 to 31-May-12
25
Deepak Kapoor
General
30-Sep-07 to 31-Mar-10
24
Joginder Jaswant Singh
General
31-Jan-05 to 30-Sep-07
23
Nirmal Chander Vij
General
31-Dec-02 to 31-Jan-05
22
Sundararajan Padmanabhan
General
1-Oct-00 to 30-Dec-02
21
Ved Prakash Malik
General
1-Oct-97 to 30-Sep-00
20
Shankar Roychowdhury
General
20-Nov-94 to 30-Sep-97
19
Bipin Chandra Joshi
General
1-Jul-93 to 19-Nov-94
18
Sunith Francis Rodrigues
General
1-Jul-90 to 30-Jun-93
17
Vishwa Nath Sharma
General
1-Jun-88 to 30-Jun-90
16
Krishnaswamy Sundarji
General
1-Feb-85 to 31-May-88
15
Arun Shridhar Vaidya
General
1-Aug-83 to 31-Jan-85
14
Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao
General
1-Jun-81 to 31-Jul-83
13
Om Prakash Malhotra
General
1-Jun-78 to 31-May-81
12
Tapishwar Narain Raina
General
1-Jun-75 to 31-May-78
11
Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
General
16-Jan-73 to 31-May-75
10
Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw
Field Marshal
8-Jun-69 to 15-Jan-73
9
Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
General
8-Jun-66 to 7-Jun-69
8
Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
General
20-Nov-62 to 7-Jun-66
7
Pran Nath Thapar
General
8-May-61 to 19-Nov-62
6
Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
General
8-May-57 to 7-May-61
5
Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh
General
15-May-55 to 7-May-57
4
Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
General
15-Jan-53 to 14-May-55
3
Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
Field Marshal
16-Jan-49 to 14-Jan-53
2
Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher
General
1-Jan-48 to 15-Jan-49
1
Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart
General
15-Aug-47 to 31-Dec-47