Sr. |
Year (From-To) |
Dynasty |
Monarch/ Head of State |
Governor/ Prime Minister |
Establishments/ Notes |
|
before 1500 BC |
|
|
|
Khandavprastha |
1500-800 BC |
Pandavas |
Yudhishtir & successors |
|
Indraprastha |
1. |
736 |
754 |
Tomar Rajputs |
Anagpal Tomar (Bilandev Tomar/Anangpal I) |
|
Made Dilli (Dhillika) his Capital |
2. |
754 |
773 |
Vasudev |
|
|
3. |
773 |
794 |
Gangeya (Gangdev) Tuar |
|
|
4. |
794 |
814 |
Prithvipal |
|
|
5. |
814 |
834 |
Jagdev (Jaidev/Sehdev)( |
|
|
6. |
834 |
849 |
Narpal (Indrajit/hirpal/karnpal) |
|
|
7. |
849 |
875 |
Udaisangh (Udayrai) |
|
|
8. |
875 |
897 |
Jaidas |
|
|
9. |
897 |
919 |
Vachhal (Vrikshpal/Anekpal) |
|
|
10. |
919 |
940 |
Pavak |
|
|
11. |
940 |
961 |
Vihangpal |
|
|
12. |
961 |
979 |
Tolpal (Tejpal) |
|
|
13. |
979 |
1005 |
Sulakshanpal |
|
|
14. |
1005 |
1021 |
Jaipal Tuar |
|
Lost Mathura and Kannauj to Md. Gazni and paid tribute for not attacking Delhi |
15. |
1021 |
1051 |
Kanvarpal (Kumara) |
|
Lost Hansi to Masud (Grandson of Gazni) |
16. |
1051 |
1081 |
Anagpal II (Anekpal/Anaypal) |
|
built Lalkot, first walled city of Delhi. Iron Pillar bears his name |
17. |
1081 |
1105 |
Tejpal |
|
|
18. |
1105 |
1151 |
Mahipal (Junhpal) |
|
Mahipalpur |
19. |
1151 |
1180 |
Arkpal (Dakatpal/Mukundpal/Anangpal III) |
|
Gave empire to his Grandson Rai Pithora (Prithvi Raj Chauhan) of Ajmer
|
20. |
1180 |
1192 |
Chauhan Rajputs |
Prithvi Raj Chauhan |
|
Qila Rai Pithora |
21. |
1192 |
1206 |
Ghorid Dynasty |
Muhammad Ghori |
|
|
22. |
1206 |
1210 |
Mamluk/Slave Dynasty |
Qutub-ud-Din Aybak |
|
Qutub Minar, Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque |
23. |
1210 |
1211 |
Aram Shah |
|
|
24. |
1211 |
1236 |
Shams-ud-din Iltutmish |
|
|
25. |
1236 |
1236 |
Rukn-ud-din Firuz |
|
|
26. |
1236 |
1240 |
Raziyyat-ud-din Sultana (Razia Sultan) |
|
[Only female to rule the Delhi throne] |
27. |
1240 |
1242 |
Muiz-ud-din Bahram |
|
|
28. |
1242 |
1246 |
Ala-ud-din Masud |
|
|
29. |
1246 |
1266 |
Naasir-ud-din Mahmud |
|
|
30. |
1266 |
1286 |
Ghiyas-ud-din Balban |
|
|
31. |
1286 |
1290 |
Muiz-ud-din Kaiqabad |
|
|
32. |
1290 |
1290 |
Shams-ud-din-Kyomars |
|
|
33. |
1290 |
1296 |
Khilji Dynasty |
Jalal-ud-din Firuz Khilji |
|
|
34. |
1296 |
1296 |
Ruknuddin Ibrahim I |
|
|
35. |
1296 |
1315 |
Ala-ud-din Khilji |
|
Siri |
36. |
1315 |
1316 |
Shahabuddin Umar |
|
|
37. |
1316 |
1320 |
Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah |
|
|
38. |
1320 |
1321 |
Khusro Khan (Sultan Nasiruddin) |
[a hindu dalit who joined Khilji forces for revenge of Gujrat]
|
39. |
1321 |
1325 |
Tughlaq Dynasty |
Ghiyas-ud-din-Tughluq Shah I |
|
Tughluqabad |
40. |
1325 |
1351 |
Muhammad bin Tughluq |
|
Jahanpanah |
41. |
1351 |
1388 |
Firuz Shah Tughluq |
|
Feroz Shah Kotla |
42. |
1388 |
1389 |
Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq II |
|
|
43. |
1389 |
1390 |
Abu Bakr |
|
|
44. |
1390 |
1393 |
Nasiruddin Muhammad Shah III |
|
|
45. |
1393 |
1393 |
Sikander Shah I |
|
|
46. |
1393 |
1394 |
Mahmud Nasir-ud-Din |
|
|
47. |
1394 |
|
Nusrat Shah |
|
|
48. |
|
1398 |
Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah |
|
|
|
1398 |
1414 |
Period of Chaos. No Ruler, after Timur Lung ended Tughluq Dynasty in 1398 in a major attack over India |
49. |
1412 |
1412 |
Lodi Dynasty |
Daulat Khan Lodi |
|
|
50 |
1414 |
1421 |
Sayyid Dynasty |
Tarmashirin Khan (Taimur Lung) |
Khizr Khan |
Khizr under name of Taimur out of fear |
51. |
1421 |
1434 |
Mubarak Shah |
|
|
52. |
1434 |
1445 |
Muhammad Shah |
|
|
53. |
1445 |
1451 |
Alam Shah |
|
|
54. |
1451 |
1489 |
Lodi Dynasty |
Bahlul Lodi |
|
|
55. |
1489 |
1517 |
Sikandar Lodi |
|
|
56. |
1517 |
1526 |
Ibrahim Lodi |
|
|
57. |
1526 |
1530 |
Mughal/Timurid Dynasty |
Zaheeruddin Muhammad Babur |
|
|
58. |
1530 |
1540 |
Nasiruddin Muhammad Humayun |
|
Dinpanah |
59. |
1540 |
1545 |
Sur Dynasty |
Sher Shah Suri |
|
Started Rupaiyya & Built Old Fort |
60. |
1545 |
1553 |
Islam Shah Suri |
|
|
61. |
1553 |
1553 |
Firuz Shah Suri |
|
|
62. |
1553 |
1555 |
Muhammad Adil Shah |
|
|
63. |
1555 |
|
Ibrahim Shah Suri |
|
|
64. |
1555 |
1555 |
Sikandar Shah Suri |
|
|
65. |
1555 |
1556 |
Adil Shah Suri |
|
|
66. |
1556 |
1556 |
Hindu |
Hemchandra Vikramaditya |
|
|
|
1555 |
1556 |
Mughal/Timurid Dynasty |
Humayun (Ruled a part, parellel to Adil Shah Suri, before defeating him) |
67. |
1556 |
1605 |
Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar |
Ä€saf Khan |
|
68. |
1605 |
1627 |
Nooruddin Muhammad Jahangir |
|
|
69. |
1627 |
1658 |
Shahabuddin Mohd. Shah Jahan |
|
Shahjahanabad (Walled City-Old Delhi) |
70. |
1658 |
1707 |
Mohiuddin Muhammad Aurangzeb |
|
|
71. |
1707 |
1712 |
Shah Alam Bahadur Shah I |
|
|
72. |
1712 |
1713 |
Jahaandaar Shah I |
|
|
73. |
1713 |
1719 |
Furrukhsiyar |
|
|
74. |
1719 |
1719 |
Rafi Ul-Darjat |
|
|
75. |
1719 |
1719 |
Rafi Ul-Daulah (Shah Jahan II) |
|
|
76. |
1719 |
1720 |
Nekusiyar Muhammad |
|
|
77. |
1720 |
1720 |
Muhammad Ibrahim |
|
|
78. |
1720 |
1748 |
Muhammad Shah |
|
|
79. |
1748 |
1754 |
Ahmad Shah Bahadur |
|
|
80. |
1754 |
1759 |
Aziz-ud-din Alamgir II |
|
|
81. |
1759 |
1760 |
Shah Jahan III |
|
|
82. |
1759 |
1788 |
Shah Alam II |
|
|
83. |
1788 |
1788 |
Jahan Shah IV |
|
|
84. |
1788 |
1788 |
Akbar Shah II |
|
|
|
1788 |
1806 |
Shah Alam II |
|
|
|
1806 |
1837 |
Akbar Shah II |
|
|
85. |
1837 |
1857 |
Bahadur Shah Zafar (Bahadur Shah II) |
|
|
|
1856 |
1862 |
East India Company |
|
Gov. Gen. Viscount Canning |
|
|
1862 |
1863 |
|
Viceroy James Bruce, The Earl of Elgin |
|
|
1863 |
1863 |
|
Sir Robert Napier (acting) |
|
|
1863 |
1864 |
|
Sir William Denison (acting) |
|
|
1864 |
1869 |
|
Sir John Lawrence, Bt |
|
|
1869 |
1872 |
|
Viceroy Bourke, The Earl of Mayo |
|
|
1872 |
1872 |
|
Sir John Strachey (acting) |
|
|
1872 |
1872 |
|
The Lord Napier (acting) |
|
|
1872 |
1876 |
|
The Lord Northbrook |
|
|
1876 |
1880 |
House of Hanover |
Queen Empress Victoria |
The Lord Lytton |
|
|
1880 |
1884 |
The Marquess of Ripon |
|
|
1884 |
1888 |
The Earl of Dufferin |
|
|
1888 |
1894 |
The Marquess of Lansdowne |
|
|
1894 |
1899 |
The Earl of Elgin |
|
|
1894 |
1901 |
The Lord Curzon of Kedleston |
|
|
1901 |
1905 |
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
King-Emperor Edward VII |
|
|
1905 |
1910 |
The Earl of Minto |
|
|
1910 |
1916 |
House of Windsor |
King-Emperor George V |
The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst |
|
|
1916 |
1921 |
The Lord Chelmsford |
|
|
1921 |
1926 |
The Earl of Reading |
|
|
1926 |
1931 |
The Lord Irwin |
|
|
1931 |
1936 |
The Earl of Willingdon |
|
|
1936 |
1936 |
King-Emperor Edward VIII |
|
|
1936 |
1943 |
King-Emperor George VI |
The Marquess of Linlithgow |
|
|
1943 |
1947 |
The Viscount Wavell |
|
|
1947 |
1948 |
The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma |
|
|
1948 |
1950 |
C. Rajagopalachari |
|
|
1950 |
1962 |
Indian Independence - Republic Of India Formed |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
|
|
|
1962 |
1967 |
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
|
|
|
1967 |
1969 |
Dr. Zakir Hussain |
|
|
|
1969 |
1969 |
Varahagiri Venkata Giri (acting) |
|
|
|
1969 |
1969 |
Muhammad Hidayatullah (acting) |
|
|
|
1969 |
1974 |
Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
|
|
|
1974 |
1977 |
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
|
|
|
1977 |
1977 |
Basappa Danappa Jatti (acting) |
|
|
|
1977 |
1982 |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
|
|
|
1982 |
1987 |
Giani Zail Singh |
|
|
|
1987 |
1992 |
Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
|
|
|
1992 |
1997 |
Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma |
|
|
|
1997 |
2002 |
Kocheril Raman Narayanan |
|
|
|
2002 |
2007 |
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
|
|
|
2007 |
2012 |
Dr. Pratibha Patil |
|
|
|
2012 |
2017 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
|
|
|
2017 |
2022 |
Ram Nath Kovind |
|
|
|
2022 |
Incumbent |
Droupadi Murmu |
|
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