Chief Of Indian Army since Independence

1. Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart*— 15 August 1947 to 31 December 1947
2. Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher—* 1 January 1948 to 15 January 1949
3. Kodandera Madappa Cariappa —16 January 1949 to 14 January 1953
4. Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja1—5 January 1953 to 14 May 1955
5. Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh—15 May 1955 to 7 May 1957
6. Kodandera Subayya Thimayya—8 May 1957 to 7 May 1961
7. Pran Nath Thapar—8 May 1961 to 19 November 1962
8. Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri—20 November 1962 to 7 June 1966
9. Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam—8 June 1966 to 7 June 1969
10. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw—8 June 1969 to 15 January 1973
11. Gopal Gurunath Bewoor—16 January 1973 to 31 May 1975
12. Tapishwar Narain Raina—1 June 1975 to 31 May 1978
13. Om Prakash Malhotra—1 June 1978 to 31 May 1981
14. Kotikalapudi Venkata— Krishna Rao1 June 1981 to 31 July 1983
15. Arun Shridhar Vaidya—1 August 1983 to 31 January 1985
16. Krishnaswamy Sundarji—1 February 1985 to 31 May 1988
17. Vishwa Nath Sharma—1 June 1988 to 30 June 1990
18. Sunith Francis Rodrigues—1 July 1990 to 30 June 1993
19. Bipin Chandra Joshi—1 July 1993 to 19 November 1994
20. Shankar Roychowdhury—20 November 1994 to 30 September 1997
21. Ved Prakash Malik—1 October 1997 to 30 September 2000
22. Sundararajan Padmanabhan—1 October 2000 to 30 December 2002
23. Nirmal Chander Vij—31 December 2002 to 31 January 2005
24. Joginder Jaswant Singh—31 January 2005 to 30 September 2007
25. Deepak Kapoor—30 September 2007 to 31 March 2010
26. Vijay Kumar Singh—31 March 2010 to 31 May 2012
27. Bikram Singh— 31 May 2012 Current