List of governors of Assam

Governor of Assam
Emblem of Assam
Incumbent Lakshman Prasad Acharya since 30 July 2024
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhawan, Guwahati
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the President
Inaugural holder	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari (Independent India) Nicholas Beatson-Bell (Pre-Independent India)
Formation	3 January 1824;201 years ago (1824-01-03)
Website	https://rajbhavan.assam.gov.in

This is a list of governors of Assam , and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War.

The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Lakshman Acharya.

Powers and functions

See also: Governors of India § Powers and functions

The governor has:

• Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals
• Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad
• Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor

British military commanders in occupied Assam (1824–26)

No.	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
1	George McMorine		1824	1824
2	Arthur Richards		1824	1826

Commissioners of Assam (1826–1905)

On 24 February 1826, the Treaty of Yandaboo ceded portions of Assam from Burma to Britain.In 1826, Western Assam was incorporated into the province of Bengal, followed by the rest of Assam in 1833. A commissioner of Assam was appointed, subordinate to the governor of Bengal.Chief commissioners of Assam (1874–1905) In 1874, Assam was separated from the Bengal Presidency, and its status was upgraded to a chief commissioner's province.

No.	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
3	David Scott		1826	1831
4	Thomas Campbell Robertson		1831	1834
5	Francis Jenkins		1834	1861
6	Henry Hopkinson		1861	1874
7	Richard Harte Keatinge		1874	1878
8	Steuart Colvin Bayley		1878	1881
9	Charles Alfred Elliott		1881	1885
10	William Erskine Ward		1885	1887
11	Dennis Fitzpatrick (colonial administrator)		1887	1889
12	James Westland		1889	1889
13	James Wallace Quinton		1889	1891
14	William Erskine Ward		1891	1896
15	Henry John Stedman Cotton		1896	1902
16	Joseph Bampfylde Fuller		1902	1905

Lieutenant governors of East Bengal and Assam (1905–12)

In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor.

No.	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Appointer
17	Sir Bampfylde Fuller		16 October 1905	20 August 1906	The Lord Curzon of Kedleston
18	Lancelot Hare		20 August 1906	1911	The Earl of Minto
19	Sir Charles Stuart Bayley		1911	21 March 1912	The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst

Governors of Assam since 1912

No.	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
20	Archdale Earle		1912	3 January 1918
21	Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson-Bell		3 January 1918	3 April 1921
22	Sir William Sinclair Marris		3 April 1921	10 October 1922
23	John Henry Kerr		10 October 1922	28 June 1927
24	Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond		28 June 1927	11 May 1932
25	Michael Keane		11 May 1932	4 March 1937
26	Robert Niel Reid		4 March 1937	24 February 1938
27	Henry Joseph Twynam		24 February 1938	4 October 1939
28	Robert Niel Reid		4 October 1939	4 May 1942
29	Andrew Gourlay Clow		4 May 1942	4 April 1946
30	Frederick Chalmers Bourne		4 April 1946	4 September 1946
31	Henry Foley Knight		4 September 1946	23 December 1946
32	Andrew Gourlay Clow		23 December 1946	4 May 1947
33	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari		4 May 1947	15 Aug 1947
(33)	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari		15 Aug 1947	29 Dec 1948
34	Ronald Francis Lodge		30 December 1948	15 February 1949
35	Sri Prakasa		16 Feb 1949	26 May 1950
36	Jairamdas Daulatram		27 May 1950	14 May 1956
37	Saiyid Fazal Ali		15 May 1956	22 August 1959
38	Chandreswar Prasad Sinha		23 August 1959	13 October 1959
39	Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh		14 October 1959	12 November 1960
40	Vishnu Sahay		13 November 1960	12 February 1961
41	Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh		13 February 1961	7 September 1962
42	Vishnu Sahay		8 September 1962	16 April 1968
43	Braj Kumar Nehru		17 April 1968	7 December 1970
44	Parbati Kumar Goswami		8 December 1970	4 January 1971
45	Braj Kumar Nehru		5 January 1971	18 September 1973
46	Lallan Prasad Singh		19 September 1973	11 August 1981
47	Prakash Mehrotra		12 August 1981	28 March 1984
48	Tribeni Sahai Misra		29 March 1984	15 April 1984
49	Bhishma Narain Singh		16 April 1984	11 May 1989
50	Harideo Joshi		12 May 1989	26 July 1989
51	Anisetti Raghuvir		27 July 1989	1 May 1990
52	Devi Das Thakur		2 May 1990	16 March 1991
53	Loknath Mishra		17 March 1991	31 August 1997
54	Srinivas Kumar Sinha		1 September 1997	20 April 2003
55	Arvind Dave		21 April 2003	4 June 2003
56	Ajai Singh		5 June 2003	3 July 2008
57	Shiv Charan Mathur		4 July 2008	25 June 2009
58	K Sankaranarayanan		26 June 2009	26 July 2009
59	Syed Sibtey Razi		27 July 2009	10 December 2009
60	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik		11 November 2009	11 December 2014
61	Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya		12 December 2014 [1]	21 August 2016
62	Banwarilal Purohit		22 August 2016 [2]	9 October 2017
63	Jagdish Mukhi		10 October 2017 [3]	14 February 2023
64	Gulab Chand Kataria		22 February 2023	29 July 2024
65	Lakshman Prasad Acharya		30 July 2024	Incumbent

See also

• History of Assam
• Chief Minister of Assam
• Governors of India

References

1. "P B Acharya to assume additional charge as Assam Governor". The Indian Express. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
2. "Najma Heptulla, Mukhi appointed Governors". Business Standard India. 17 August 2016.
3. The Times of India (30 September 2017). "New governors appointed: All you need to know". Archived from the original on 13 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

• List of Governors from assamassembly.nic.in
• http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_states.html#Assam
• http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_BrProvinces.htm#Assam
• "Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)