List of governors of Uttarakhand

Governor of Uttarakhand
Governor of Uttarakhand
	Emblem of Uttarakhand
	Incumbent; Gurmit Singh; since 15 September 2021
	Government of Uttarakhand
Style	His Excellency (within Uttarakhand); The Honourable (outside Uttarakhand)
Status	Head of state
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Nainital (summer); Raj Bhavan, Dehradun (winter)
Nominator	Union Government of India
Appointer	President of India with confirmation of Prime Minister of India
Term length	Five years; Renewable
Inaugural holder	Surjit Singh Barnala (2000–2003)
Formation	9 November 2000; 24 years ago
Website	Governor of Uttarakhand

The Governor of Uttarakhand is the nominal head of state of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and a representative of the president of India and is appointed by him for a term of five years, and holds office at the president's pleasure. The governor is de jure head of the state government; all its executive actions are taken in the governor's name. However, the governor must act on the advice of the popularly elected Uttarakhand Council of Ministers, headed by the chief minister of Uttarakhand, who thus hold de facto executive authority at the state-level. The Constitution of India also empowers the governor to act upon his or her own discretion, such as the ability to appoint or dismiss a ministry, recommend President's rule, or reserve bills for the president's assent. The governor of Uttarakhand has their official residences at the Raj Bhavans in Dehradun and Nainital.

Uttarakhand was created on 9 November 2000, when it was carved out from the Himalayan districts of Uttar Pradesh. The first governor of the state was Surjit Singh Barnala who served in office between 2000 and 2003. The current governor is Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh (Retd.) who has been in office since 14 September 2021. As of date, eight individuals have served as the governor of the state including two women - Margaret Alva and Baby Rani Maurya. No governor has till date completed full term in office. Sudarshan Agarwal holds the record of the longest-serving governor with 4 years, 293 days in office.

Qualifications

Article 157 and Article 158 of the Constitution of India specify eligibility requirements for the post of governor. They are as follows:

A governor must:

be a citizen of India.
be at least 35 years of age.
not be a member of either house of the parliament or house of the state legislature.
not hold any office of profit.

Powers and functions

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:

Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) & vidhan parishad, and
Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor.

Apart from enjoying various constitutional powers, the governor of Uttarakhand is the ex-officio Chancellor of the state universities of Uttarakhand. The universities include Kumaun University, Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Doon University, Uttarakhand Open University, Uttarakhand Technical University, Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Uttarakhand Medical Education University, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand Residential University, Soban Singh Jeena University.

List of rulers

All of these rulers used the title of Nawab from 1722 to 1856:

Titular Name	Personal Name	Birth	Reign	Death
Burhan ul Mulk Sa'adat Khan برہان الملک سعادت خان	Saadat Ali Khan I	1680 Nishapur, Khurasan, Safavid dynasty, Persia	1722 – 19 March 1739	1739
Abul-Mansur Khan Safdar Jung ابو المنصور خان صفدرجنگ	Muhammad Muqim	1708	1739 – 5 October 1754	1754
Shuja-ud-Daula شجاع الدولہ	Jalal-ud-din Haider Abul-Mansur Khan	1732	1754 – 26 January 1775	1775
Asaf-ud-Daula آصف الدولہ	Muhammad Yahya Mirza Amani	1748	26 January 1775 – 20 April 1797	1798
Asif Jah Mirza	Wazir Ali Khan وزیر علی خان	1780	21 September 1797 – 21 January 1798	1817
Yamin-ud-Daula	Saadat Ali Khan II سعادت علی خان	1752	21 January 1798 – 11 July 1814	1814
Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar Shah	Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar Shah غازی الدیں حیدر شاہ	1769	11 July 1814 – 19 October 1827	1827
Abul- Mansur Qutub-ud-din Sulaiman jah	Nasir-ud-Din Haidar Shah ناصر الدیں حیدر شاہ	1803	19 October 1827 – 7 July 1837	1837
Abul Fateh Moin-ud-din	Muhammad Ali Shah محمّد علی شاہ	1777	7 July 1837 – 7 May 1842	1842
Najm-ud-Daula Abul-Muzaffar Musleh-ud-din	Amjad Ali Shah امجد علی شاہ	1801	7 May 1842 – 13 February 1847	1847
Abul-Mansur Mirza	Wajid Ali Shah واجد علی شاہ	1822	13 February 1847 – 11 February 1856	1 September 1887
Mohammadi Khanum	Begum Hazrat Mahal بیگم حضرت محل	1820	11 February 1856 – 5 July1857 Wife of Wajid Ali Shah and mother of Birjis Qadra (in rebellion)	7 April 1879
Ramzan Ali رمضان علی	Birjis Qadr بر جیس قدر	1845	5 July 1857 – 3 March 1858 (in rebellion)	14 August 1893

Governors of Agra (1834–1836)

In 1833 an act of Parliament was passed to constitute a new presidency (province), with its capital at Agra.

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Remarks
1	Sir C. T. Metcalfe	14 November 1834	20 March 1835	-
2	W. Blunt	20 March 1835	1 December 1835	-
3	A. Ross	1 December 1835	1 June 1836	-
Graphical Timeline

Lieutenant-Governors of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal (1835–1878)

The Government of India Act of 1833 had intended that there be four presidencies comprising India – that of Fort William in Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Agra. The new Presidency of Agra was be created from the Ceded and Conquered Provinces of the Bengal Presidency. However the presidency was never fully created. Instead a new Act of Parliament in 1835, dissolved the new presidency and established the lieutenant-governorship of North-Western Provinces within the Bengal Presidency. The lieutenant governorship was finally separated from the Bengal Presidency in 1878 and merged with the Oudh Province which had been a Chief Commissioner's Province under the direct supervision of the Indian Government till then and the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal was abolished.

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Appointer (Governor-General of India)
1	Sir C. T. Metcalfe	1 June 1836	1 June 1838	The Earl of Auckland
2	T. C. Robertson	4 February 1840	31 December 1842	The Earl of Auckland
3	Sir G. R. Clerk	30 June 1843	22 December 1843	The Lord Ellenborough
4	James Thomason	22 December 1843	10 October 1853	The Lord Ellenborough
5	J. R. Colvin	7 November 1853	9 September 1857	The Earl of Dalhousie
6	Colonel H. Fraser	30 September 1857	9 February 1858	The Viscount Canning
7	Sir G. F. Edmonstone	19 January 1859	27 February 1863	The Viscount Canning
8	The Hon. Edmund Drummond	7 March 1863	10 March 1868	The Earl of Elgin
9	Sir William Muir	10 March 1868	7 April 1874	Sir John Lawrence
10	Sir John Strachey	7 April 1874	26 July 1876	The Lord Northbrook
11	Sir G. E. W. Couper	26 July 1876	15 February 1877	The Lord Lytton

Graphical Timeline

Chief commissioners of Oudh (1856–1877)

In 1856, the office was created.

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Remarks
1	Major General Sir James Outram	1 February 1856	8 May 1856	–
2	Colville Coverly Jackson	8 May 1856	21 March 1857	Officiating
3	Major General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence	21 March 1857	5 July 1857	Killed at Lucknow, July, 1857
4	Major John Sherbroke Banks	5 July 1857	11 September 1857	Killed at Lucknow, July, 1857
5	Lieut General Sir James Outram	11 September 1857	3 April 1858	–
6	Robert Montgomery	3 April 1858	15 February 1859	–
7	Charles John Wingfield	15 February 1859	20 April 1860	–
8	Lieutenant Colonel Lousada Barrow	20 April 1860	4 April 1861	Officiating
9	George Udny Yule	4 April 1861	26 August 1865	Officiating
10	Robert Henry Davies	26 August 1865	17 March 1866	Officiating
11	John Strachey	17 March 1866	24 May 1868	–
12	Robert Henry Davies	24 May 1868	18 January 1871	Officiating, Confirmed 9 March 1868
13	Major General Lousada Barrow	18 January 1871	20 April 1871	–
14	Sir George Couper	20 April 1871	15 March 1875	Officiating, Confirmed 9 December 1873
15	John Forbes David Inglis	15 March 1875	15 February 1877	Officiating, until 15 November 1875 and from 26 July 1876 to 15 February 1877

Lieutenant-governors of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioners of Oudh (1877–1902)

In 1877 the office of lieutenant governor was combined with that of Chief Commissioner of Oudh, which had existed since 1857, in the same person.

Sir George Ebenezer Wilson Couper, 15 February 1877 – 17 April 1882, continued
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, 17 April 1882 – 21 November 1887
Sir Auckland Colvin, 21 November 1887 – 28 November 1892
Sir Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite, 28 November 1892 – 9 January 1895
Alan Cadell, 9 January 1895 – 6 November 1895, acting
Sir Anthony Patrick MacDonnell, 6 November 1895 – 14 November 1901
Sir James John Digges La Touche, 14 November 1901 – 22 March 1902

Lieutenant-governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1902–1921)

In 1902, the province was renamed the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. With the new name, the former commissionership was abolished.

Sir James John Digges La Touche, 22 March 1902 – 1 January 1907, continued.
Sir John Prescott Hewett, 1 January 1907 – 15 September 1912.
- Sir Leslie Alexander Selim Porter, 30 April 1910 – 20 October 1910, acting for Hewett, first time.
- Sir Leslie Alexander Selim Porter, 1 April 1911 – 16 December 1911, acting for Hewett, second time.
Sir James Scorgie Meston, 15 September 1912 – 7 February 1917.
- Sir Duncan Colvin Baillie, 18 September 1913 – 15 November 1913, acting for Meston.
John Mitchell Holmes, 7 February 1917 – 15 February 1918, acting.
Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, 15 February 1918 – 3 January 1921.

Governors of United Provinces (1921–1950)

#	Name	Took office	Left office
Governors of United Provinces of British India (3 January 1921 – 1 April 1937)
1	Harcourt Butler	3 January 1921	21 December 1922
-	Ludovic Charles Porter	21 December 1922	24 December 1922
2	William Sinclair Marris	24 December 1922	13 August 1926
-	Samuel Perry O'Donnell	13 August 1926	1 December 1926
(2)	William Sinclair Marris	1 December 1926	14 January 1928
3	Alexander Phillips Muddiman	15 January 1928	17 June 1928
4	William Malcolm Hailey	10 August 1928	21 December 1928
4	William Malcolm Hailey	22 April 1929	16 October 1930
-	George Bancroft Lambert	16 October 1930	19 April 1931
(4)	William Malcolm Hailey	19 April 1931	6 April 1933
-	Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari	8 April 1933	27 November 1933
(4)	William Malcolm Hailey	27 November 1933	5 December 1934
5	Harry Graham Haig	6 December 1934	1 April 1937
Governors of United Provinces (1 April 1937 – 25 January 1950)
5	Harry Graham Haig	1 April 1937	16 May 1938
5	Harry Graham Haig	17 September 1938	6 December 1939
6	Maurice Garnier Hallett	7 December 1939	6 December 1945
7	Francis Verner Wylie	7 December 1945	14 August 1947
8	Sarojini Naidu	15 August 1947	2 March 1949
-	Justice B.B Malik	3 March 1949	1 May 1949
9	Sir Hormasji Pherozeshah Modi	2 May 1949	25 January 1950

List of governors of Uttar Pradesh

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
Governors of Uttar Pradesh (26 January 1950–Present)
1	Sir Hormasji Pherozeshah Modi	–	26 January 1950	1 June 1952
2	Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi		2 June 1952	9 June 1957
3	Varahgiri Venkat Giri		10 June 1957	30 June 1960
4	Burgula Ramakrishna Rao		1 July 1960	15 April 1962
5	Bishwanath Das		16 April 1962	30 April 1967
6	Dr. Bezwada Gopala Reddy		1 May 1967	30 June 1972
–	Justice Shashi Kant Varma	–	1 July 1972	13 November 1972
7	Akbar Ali Khan	–	14 November 1972	24 October 1974
8	Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy		25 October 1974	1 October 1977
9	Ganpatrao Devji Tapase	–	2 October 1977	27 February 1980
10	Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh		28 February 1980	31 March 1985
11	Mohammed Usman Arif	–	31 March 1985	11 February 1990
12	B. Satya Narayan Reddy	–	12 February 1990	25 May 1993
13	Motilal Vora		26 May 1993	3 May 1996
–	Mohammad Shafi Qureshi	–	3 May 1996	19 July 1996
14	Romesh Bhandari	–	19 July 1996	17 March 1998
–	Mohammad Shafi Qureshi	–	17 March 1998	19 April 1998
15	Suraj Bhan	–	20 April 1998	9 November 2000

List of governors

Key

^† Died in office
^§ Resigned from office
^ẟ Removed from office

No.	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Immediate prior position held	Appointed by
No.	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	From	To	Time in office	Immediate prior position held	Appointed by
1		Surjit Singh Barnala (1925–2017)	Punjab	9 November 2000	7 January 2003	2 years, 59 days	Union Cabinet Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers (until 1999)	K. R. Narayanan (President)
2		Sudarshan Agarwal (1931–2019)	Punjab	8 January 2003	28 October 2007	4 years, 293 days	Member, National Human Rights Commission	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (President)
3		Banwari Lal Joshi IPS (Retd.) (1936–2017)	Rajasthan	29 October 2007	5 August 2009	1 year, 280 days	Governor of Meghalaya	Pratibha Patil (President)
4		Margaret Alva (born 1942)	Karnataka	6 August 2009	14 May 2012	2 years, 282 days	General Secretary, All India Congress Committee
5		Aziz Qureshi (born 1941)	Madhya Pradesh	15 May 2012	7 January 2015	2 years, 237 days	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (until 1989)
6		Krishan Kant Paul IPS (Retd.) (born 1948)	Chandigarh	8 January 2015	21 August 2018	3 years, 225 days	Governor of Meghalaya	Pranab Mukherjee (President)
7		Baby Rani Maurya (born 1956)	Uttar Pradesh	26 August 2018	14 September 2021^[§]	3 years, 19 days	Member, Uttar Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights	Ram Nath Kovind (President)
8		Lieutenant General (Retd.) Gurmit Singh PVSM UYSM AVSM VSM (born 1956)	Punjab	15 September 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 185 days	Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Information Systems and Training) (until 2016)	Ram Nath Kovind (President)