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