List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta

Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta
Incumbent Dr. Santa Datta (De) (acting) since 1 June 2023
Formation	24 January 1857
First holder	James William Colvile

The vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, a university in Kolkata, India, is the executive head of the university. ^[1] Following the establishment in 1857, James William Colvile served as the first vice-chancellor of the university.

List of vice-chancellors

S. No.	Name [1]	Term	Image	Notes
1	James William Colvile	1857–1859
2	William Ritchie	1859–1862
3	Claudius James Erskine	1862–1863
4	Henry Sumner Maine	1863–1867
5	W. S. Seton-Karr	1867–1869
6	Edward Clive Bayley	1869–1875
7	Arthur Hobhouse	1875–1877
8	William Markby	1877–1878
9	Alexander Arbuthnot	1878–1880
10	Arthur Wilson	1880–1884
11	H. J. Reynolds	1883–1886
12	C. P. Ilbert	1886
13	William Wilson Hunter	1886–1887
14	William Comer Petheram	1887–1889
15	Gooroodas Banerjee	1890–1892		First Indian vice chancellor of the university
16	Jones Quain Pigot	1893
17	Alfred Woodley Croft	1893–1896
18	E. J. Trevelyan	1897–1898
19	Francis William Maclean	1898–1900
20	Thomas Raleigh	1900–1904
21	Alexander Pedler	1904–1906
22	Asutosh Mookerjee	1906–1914
23	Deva Prasad Sarbadhikari	1914–1918
24	Lancelot Sanderson	1918–1919
25	Nilratan Sircar	1919–1921		Eminent Indian physician
(22)	Asutosh Mookerjee (second term)	1921–1923
26	Bhupendra Nath Bose	1923–1924
27	William Ewart Greaves	1924–1926
28	Jadunath Sarkar	1926–1928
29	W. S. Urquhart	1928–1930
30	Hassan Suhrawardy	1930–1934
31	Syama Prasad Mookerjee	1934–1938		Union Minister (1947–1950) & Member of Parliament (1952–1953)
32	Sir Azizul Huque	1938–1942		High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom (1941–1943)
33	Bidhan Chandra Roy	1942–1944		Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948–1962)
34	Radhabinod Pal	1944–1946		Member of United Nations' International Law Commission (1952–1966)
35	Pramathanath Banerjee	1946–1949		Member of Parliament (1957–1962)
36	Charu Chandra Biswas	1949–1950
37	Sambhunath Banerjee	1950–1954
38	Jnan Chandra Ghosh	1954–1955
39	Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta	1955–1960
40	Subodh Mitra	1960–1961		Eminent Indian obstretrician and gynecologist
41	Surajit Chandra Lahiri	1962		Former Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court (1959–1961)
42	Bidhubhushan Malik	1962–1968
43	S. N. Sen	1968–1976
44	Sushil Kumar Mukherjee	1976–1979
45	Ramendra Kumar Podder	1979–1983		Member of Parliament (1985–1993)
46	Santosh Bhattacharyya	1983–1987		[2]
47	Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri	1987–1991
48	Rathindra Narayan Basu	1991–1999
49	Asis Kumar Banerjee	1999–2008
50	Suranjan Das	2008–2015
–	Sugata Marjit (acting)	2015–2016
51	Ashutosh Ghosh	2016–2017
52	Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee	2017–2022		[3]
53	Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay	2022–2023
–	Dr. Santa Dutta (De) (acting)	2023-Incumbent

References

1. "Vice-Chancellors". University of Calcutta . Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
2. "The VC who fought Red shackles at CU". The Times of India. 13 March 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
3. Basu, Somdatta (26 August 2017). "Calcutta University gets full-term VC after more than 2 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 July 2021.