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, formerly the Commander of the Northern Command.
| No.
| Name
| Appointment Date
| Left Office
| Unit of Commission
| Decorations
|
| 1
| General Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart*
| August 15,1947
| December 31,1947
| Infantry - 51 Sikhs Frontier Force
| KCB, CIE, MC |
| 2
| General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher*
| December 31,1947
| January 15,1949
| Infantry
| CB, OBE, MC |
| 3
| Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
| January 15,1949
| January 14,1953
| Infantry - Rajput Regiment
| OBE |
| 4
| General Maharaj Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji
| January 14,1953
| May 14,1955
| Armoured Corps, 2nd Lancers
| DSO |
| 5
| General Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh
| May 14,1955
| May 7,1957
| Infantry - Kumaon Regiment
| |
| 6
| General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya
| May 7,1957
| May 7,1961
| Infantry - Kumaon Regiment
| Padma Vibhushan, DSO, ADC |
| 7
| General Pran Nath Thapar
| May 7,1961
| Nov 19,1962
| Infantry - Bengal Infantry
| |
| 8
| General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
| Nov 19,1962
| June 7,1966
| Armoured Corps, 16 CAV and 7 LC
| Padma Vibhushan |
| 9
| General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
| June 7,1966
| June 7,1969
| Regiment of Artillery
| DSO |
| 10
| Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw
| June 7,1969
| January 15,1973
| Infantry - 8 Gorkha Rifles
| Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, MC |
| 11
| General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
| January 15,1973
| May 31,1975
| Infantry - 11 Gorkha Rifles and Dogra
| PVSM |
| 12
| General Tapishwar Narain Raina
| May 31,1975
| May 31,1978
| Infantry - Kumaon Regiment
| Padma Bhushan MVC |
| 13
| General Om Prakash Malhotra
| May 31,1978
| May 31,1981
| Regiment of Artillery
| PVSM |
| 14
| General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao
| May 31,1981
| July 31,1983
| Infantry - Mahar Regiment
| PVSM |
| 15
| General Arun Shridhar Vaidya
| July 31,1983
| January 31,1986
| Armoured Corps, Deccan Horse
| Padma Vibhushan, PVSM, MVC(Bar), AVSM |
| 16
| General Krishnaswamy Sundarji
| February 1,1986
| April 30,1988
| Infantry - Mahar Regiment
| PVSM, ADC |
| 17
| General V. N. Sharma
| April 30,1988
| June 30,1990
| Armoured Corps, 16 Light Cavalry
| MVC(Bar), AVSM |
| 18
| General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
| June 30,1990
| June 30,1993
| Regiment of Artillery
| PVSM, VSM |
| 19
| General Bipin Chandra Joshi
| June 30,1993
| November 18,1994
| Armoured Corps, 64 CAV
| PVSM, AVSM, ADC |
| 20
| General Shankar Roychowdhury
| November 22,1994
| September 30,1997
| Armoured Corps, 20 Lancers
| PVSM, ADC |
| 21
| General Ved Prakash Malik
| September 30,1997
| September 30,2000
| Infantry - Sikh Light Infantry
| PVSM, AVSM, ADC |
| 22
| General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
| September 30,2000
| December 31,2002
| Regiment of Artillery
| PVSM, AVSM, ADC |
| 23
| General Nirmal Chander Vij
| December 31,2002
| January 31,2005
| Infantry - Dogra Regiment
| PVSM, UYSM, AVSM |
| 24
| General Joginder Jaswant Singh
| January 31,2005
| September 29,2007
| Infantry - Maratha Light Infantry
| PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC |
| 25
| General Deepak Kapoor
| September 30,2007
| []
| [Regiment of Artillery]
| PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC, SM, |
