# Under-Secretary of State for India

This is a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and Permanent Under-Secretaries of State at the India Office during the period of British rule between 1858 and 1937 for India (and Burma by extension), and for India and Burma from 1937 to 1948.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State was a ministerial position and the Permanent Under-Secretary of State was a civil service position.

## Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858–1937

| Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Henry Baillie | 1858 | 1859 |
| Hon. Thomas Baring | 1859 | 1861 |
| The Earl de Grey | 1861 | 1861 |
| Hon. Thomas Baring | 1861 | 1864 |
| The Lord Wodehouse | 1864 | 1864 |
| The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye | 1864 | 1866 |
| James Stansfeld | 1866 | 1866 |
| Sir James Fergusson, Bt | 1866 | 1867 |
| The Lord Clinton | 1867 | 1868 |
| M. E. Grant Duff | 1868 | 1874 |
| Lord George Hamilton | 1874 | 1878 |
| Hon. Edward Stanhope | 1878 | 1880 |
| The Marquess of Lansdowne | 1880 | 1880 |
| Viscount Enfield | 1880 | 1883 |
| John Kynaston Cross | 1883 | 1885 |
| The Lord Harris | 1885 | 1886 |
| Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt | 1886 | 1886 |
| Stafford Howard | 1886 | 1886 |
| Sir John Eldon Gorst | 1886 | 1891 |
| Hon. George Curzon | 1891 | 1892 |
| George W. E. Russell | 1892 | 1894 |
| The Lord Reay | 1894 | 1895 |
| The Earl of Onslow | 1895 | 1900 |
| The Earl of Hardwicke | 1900 | 1902 |
| Earl Percy | 1902 | 1904 |
| Vacant | 1904 | 1904 |
| The Marquess of Bath | 1904 | 1905 |
| John Ellis | 1905 | 1907 |
| Charles Hobhouse | 1907 | 1908 |
| Thomas Buchanan | 1908 | 1909 |
| The Master of Elibank | 1909 | 1910 |
| Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu | 1910 | 1914 |
| Charles Henry Roberts | 1914 | 1915 |
| The Lord Islington | 1915 | 1919 |
| The Lord Sinha | 1919 | 1920 |
| The Earl of Lytton | 1920 | 1922 |
| The Earl Winterton | 1922 | 1924 |
| Robert Richards | 1924 | 1924 |
| The Earl Winterton | 1924 | 1929 |
| Drummond Shiels | 1929 | 1929 |
| The Earl Russell | 1929 | 1931 |
| The Lord Snell | 1931 | 1931 |
| Vacant | 1931 | 1931 |
| The Marquess of Lothian | 1931 | 1932 |
| Rab Butler | 1932 | 1937 |

## Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937–1948

| Name | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| Lord Stanley MP for Fylde | 1937 | 1938 | Conservative |
| Anthony Muirhead MP for Wells | 1938 | 1939† | Conservative |
| Hugh O'Neill MP for Antrim | 1939 | 1940 | Ulster Unionist |
| The Duke of Devonshire | 1940 | 1943 | Conservative |
| The Earl of Munster | 1943 | 1944 | Conservative |
| The Earl of Listowel | 1944 | 1945 | Labour |
| The Earl of Scarbrough | 1945 | 1945 | Conservative |
| Arthur Henderson MP for Kingswinford | 1945 | 1947 | Labour |

## Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858–1937

| Name | Term of office | Term of office |
| Sir George Russell Clerk | 1858 | 1860 |
| Herman Merivale | 1860 | 1874 |
| Sir Louis Mallet | 1874 | 1883 |
| Sir Arthur Godley | 1883 | 1909 |
| Sir Richmond Ritchie | 1909 | 1912 |
| Sir Thomas Holderness | 1912 | 1920 |
| Sir William Duke | 1920 | 1924 |
| Sir Arthur Hirtzel | 1924 | 1930 |
| Sir Findlater Stewart | 1930 | 1937 |

## Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937–1948

| Portrait | Name Honorifics | Term of office | Term of office |
| | Sir Findlater Stewart GCIE KCB CSI | 1937 | 1941 |
| | Sir David Monteath KCB KCMG CVO OBE | 1941 | 1948 |