# List of governors of Manipur

The governor of Manipur is the nominal head of the Indian state of Manipur. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor of Manipur is Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed by President Droupadi Murmu.

## List of Governors

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

### governors

| No. | Name | 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

In 1905, Bengal was partitioned and East Bengal and Assam was formed, governed by a lieutenant governor.
| No. | Name | 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

| No. | Name | 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 | 20 January 1972 |

## Governors of Manipur

| # | Name | Took office | Left office | Duration | Home State | Appointed by |
| 45 | B. K. Nehru | 21 January 1972 | 20 September 1973 | 1 year, 242 days | Uttar Pradesh | V. V. Giri |
| 46 | L.P. Singh | 21 September 1973 | 11 August 1981 | 7 years, 324 days | Bihar | V. V. Giri |
| 47 | S. M. H. Burney | 11 August 1981 | 11 June 1984 | 2 years, 305 days | Uttar Pradesh | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 48 | K. V. Krishna Rao | 11 June 1984 | 10 July 1989 | 5 years, 29 days | Andhra Pradesh | Zail Singh |
| 49 | Chintamani Panigrahi | 10 July 1989 | 19 March 1993 | 3 years, 252 days | Odisha | R. Venkataraman |
| 50 | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy | 20 March 1993 | 30 August 1993 | 163 days | Andhra Pradesh | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 51 | V. K. Nayar | 31 August 1993 | 22 December 1994 | 1 year, 113 days | Not Known | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 52 | O.N. Shrivastava | 23 December 1994 | 2 December 1999 | 4 years, 344 days | Madhya Pradesh | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 53 | Ved Marwah | 2 December 1999 | 12 June 2003 | 3 years, 193 days | Not Known | K. R. Narayan |
| 54 | Arvind Dave | 13 June 2003 | 5 August 2004 | 1 year, 53 days | Rajasthan | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 55 | Shivinder Singh Sidhu | 6 August 2004 | 22 July 2008 | 3 years, 351 days | Not Known | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 56 | Gurbachan Jagat | 23 July 2008 | 23 July 2013 | 5 years, 0 days | Punjab | Pratibha Patil |
| 57 | Ashwani Kumar | 23 July 2013 | 31 December 2013 | 161 days | Himachal Pradesh | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 58 | Vinod Duggal | 31 December 2013 | 28 August 2014 | 240 days | Punjab | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 59 | K. K. Paul | 16 September 2014 | 15 May 2015 | 241 days | Punjab | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 60 | Syed Ahmed | 16 May 2015 | 27 September 2015 | 134 days | Maharashtra | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 61 | V. Shanmuganathan | 30 September 2015 | 17 August 2016 | 322 days | Tamil Nadu | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 62 | Najma Heptulla | 21 August 2016 | 1 May 2018 | 1 year, 253 days | Madhya Pradesh | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 63 | Jagdish Mukhi | 2 May 2018 | 30 May 2018 | 28 days | Delhi | Ramnath Kovind |
| 64 | Najma Heptulla | 31 May 2018 | 26 June 2019 | 1 year, 26 days | Madhya Pradesh | Ramnath Kovind |
| 65 | Padmanabha Acharya | 27 June 2019 | 23 July 2019 | 26 days | Karnataka | Ramnath Kovind |
| 66 | Najma Heptulla | 24 July 2019 | 10 August 2021 | 2 years, 17 days | Madhya Pradesh | Ramnath Kovind |
| 67 | Ganga Prasad | 12 August 2021 | 26 August 2021 | 14 days | Bihar | Ramnath Kovind |
| 68 | La. Ganesan | 27 August 2021 | 12 February 2023 | 1 year, 169 days | Tamil Nadu | Ramnath Kovind |
| 69 | Anusuiya Uikey | 12 February 2023 | 30 July 2024 | 1 year, 169 days | Madhya Pradesh | Droupadi Murmu |
| 70 | Lakshman Prasad Acharya | 31 July 2024 | 2 January 2025 | 155 days | Uttar Pradesh | Droupadi Murmu |
| 71 | Ajay Kumar Bhalla | 3 January 2025 | Incumbent | 72 days | Punjab | Droupadi Murmu |