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List of West Bengal Governors

Governors of West Bengal from 1956 to till date


Sr.no. Governors Name Took Office Left Office
1 Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari 1946 06/21/48
2 Kailash Nath Katju 06/21/48 11/01/51
3 Harendra Coomar Mookerjee 11/01/51 08/08/56
4 Phani Bhusan Chakraborty (acting) 08/08/56 11/03/56
5 Padmaja Naidu 11/03/56 06/01/67
6 Dharma Vira 06/01/67 04/01/69
7 Deep Narayan Sinha (acting) 04/01/69 09/19/69
8 Shanti Swaroop Dhavan 09/19/69 08/21/71
9 Anthony Lancelot Dias 08/21/71 11/06/79
10 Tribhuvana Narayana Singh 11/06/79 09/12/81
11 Bhairab Dutt Pande 09/12/81 10/10/83
12 Anant Prasad Sharma 10/10/83 08/16/84
13 Satish Chandra (acting) 08/16/84 10/01/84
14 Uma Shankar Dikshit 10/01/84 08/12/86
15 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 08/12/86 03/20/89
16 T. V. Rajeswar 03/20/89 02/07/90
17 Saiyid Nurul Hasan 02/07/90 07/12/93
18 B. Satyanarayan Reddy (additional charge) 07/13/93 08/14/93
19 K.V. Raghunatha Reddy 08/14/93 04/27/98
20 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge) 04/27/98 05/18/99
21 Shyamal Kumar Sen (acting) 05/18/99 12/04/99
22 Viren J. Shah 12/04/99 12/14/04
23 Gopalkrishna Gandhi 12/14/04 12/14/09
24 Devanand Konwar (additional charge) 12/14/09 01/24/10
25 M.K. Narayanan 01/24/10 Incumbent

Last Updated on 10/20/2011

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