List of governors of Karnataka: Difference between revisions

 

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=== Governor of Mysore State (1956{{ndash}}1973) ===

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| [[File:Court portrait of Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar of Mysore.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:Court portrait of Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar of Mysore.jpg|70px]]

| {{small|Maharaja}}<br/>”'[[Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar]]”'<br/>{{small|(1919{{ndash}}1974)}}

| {{small|Maharaja}}<br/>”'[[Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar]]”'<br/>{{small|(1919{{ndash}}1974)}}

| [[Mysore State]]

| [[Mysore State]]

| {{small|1 November}}<br/>1956

| {{small|1 November}}<br/>1956

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| [[File:Mohan Lal Sukhadia 1988 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|70px]]

| [[File:Mohan Lal Sukhadia 1988 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Mohan Lal Sukhadia]]”'{{efn|On 1 November 1973, Mysore State was renamed as Karnataka.<ref name=”Rename”>{{cite web|author=M. S. Prabhakara|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/New-names-for-old/article14802447.ece|title=New names for old|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=24 July 2007|access-date=1 June 2009}}</ref> Thus, Mohanlal Sukhadia was the governor of Mysore state between 1 February 1972 and 31 October 1973, and continued as governor of Karnataka post the renaming.}}<br/>{{small|(1916{{ndash}}1982)}}

| ”'[[Mohan Lal Sukhadia]]”'<br/>{{small|(1916{{ndash}}1982)}}

| [[Rajasthan]]

| [[Rajasthan]]

| {{small|1 February}}<br/>1972

| {{small|1 February}}<br/>1972

| {{small|31 October}}<br/>1973

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| ”'{{ayd|1 Feb 1972|31 Oct 1973}}”’

| ”'{{ayd|1 Feb 1972| Oct }}”’

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=== Governor of Karnataka (1973{{ndash}}present) ===

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! rowspan=”2″ class=”unsortable”| Portrait

! rowspan=”2″ style=”width:14em” | Name<br><small>(born{{spaced ndash}}died)</small>

! rowspan=”2″ style=”width:7em” | Home state

! colspan=”3″| Tenure in office

! rowspan=”2″ style=”width:7em” | Appointer<br/>(President)

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! style=”width:7em”| To

! style=”width:5em”| Time in office

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| [[File:Mohan Lal Sukhadia 1988 stamp of India (cropped).jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Mohan Lal Sukhadia]]”'<br/>{{small|(1916{{ndash}}1982)}}

| [[Rajasthan]]

| {{small|1 November}}<br/>1973

| {{small|10 January}}<br/>1976{{ref label|§|§|§}}{{efn-lg|Transferred as the [[Governor of Tamil Nadu]]}}

| ”'{{ayd|1 Nov 1973|10 Jan 1976}}”’

| [[V. V. Giri]]

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| [[File:Uma Shankar Dikshit Rajya Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:Uma Shankar Dikshit Rajya Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]”'<br/>{{small|(1901{{ndash}}1991)}}

| ”'[[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]”'<br/>{{small|(1901{{ndash}}1991)}}

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| [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]

| [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]

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| ”'[[Govind Narain]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] (Retd)<br/>(1916{{ndash}}2012)}}

| ”'[[Govind Narain]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] (Retd)<br/>(1916{{ndash}}2012)}}

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| [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]

| [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]

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| ”'[[Ashoknath Banerji]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] (Retd)<br/>(1929{{ndash}}2006)}}

| ”'[[Ashoknath Banerji]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] (Retd)<br/>(1929{{ndash}}2006)}}

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| [[Zail Singh]]

| [[Zail Singh]]

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| [[File:Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah Lok Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah]]”'<br/>{{small|(1921{{ndash}}1983)}}

| ”'[[Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah]]”'<br/>{{small|(1921{{ndash}}1983)}}

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| ”'{{ayd|5 Feb 1990|8 May 1990}}”’

| ”'{{ayd|5 Feb 1990|8 May 1990}}”’

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| [[File:Bhanu Pratap Singh Rajya Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:Bhanu Pratap Singh Rajya Sabha photo.jpg|70px]]

| ”’Bhanu Pratap Singh”'<br/>{{small|(1917{{ndash}}?)}}

| ”’Bhanu Pratap Singh”'<br/>{{small|(1917{{ndash}}?)}}

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| rowspan=”2″| ”'{{ayd|6 Jan 1991|2 Dec 1999}}”’

| rowspan=”2″| ”'{{ayd|6 Jan 1991|2 Dec 1999}}”’

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| {{small|17 March}}<br/>1991

| {{small|17 March}}<br/>1991

| {{small|2 December}}<br/>1999

| {{small|2 December}}<br/>1999

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| [[File:VS RamaDevi.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:VS RamaDevi.jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[V. S. Ramadevi]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] (Retd)<br/>(1934{{ndash}}2013)}}

| ”'[[V. S. Ramadevi]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] (Retd)<br/>(1934{{ndash}}2013)}}

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| rowspan=”2″| [[K. R. Narayanan]]

| rowspan=”2″| [[K. R. Narayanan]]

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| [[File:T. N. Chaturvedi.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:T. N. Chaturvedi.jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[T. N. Chaturvedi]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] (Retd)<br/>(1928{{ndash}}2020)}}

| ”'[[T. N. Chaturvedi]]”'<br/>{{small|[[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] (Retd)<br/>(1928{{ndash}}2020)}}

| [[Uttar Pradesh]]

| [[Uttar Pradesh]]

| {{small|21 August}}<br/>2002

| {{small|21 August}}<br/>2002

| {{small|20 August}}<br/>2007

| {{small| August}}<br/>2007

| ”'{{ayd|21 Aug 2002|20 Aug 2007}}”’

| ”'{{ayd|21 Aug 2002| Aug 2007}}”’

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| [[File:The Governor of Karnataka, Shri Rameshwar Thakur in Bangalore on January 13, 2008.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:The Governor of Karnataka, Shri Rameshwar Thakur in Bangalore on January 13, 2008.jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Rameshwar Thakur]]”'<br/>{{small|(1925{{ndash}}2015)}}

| ”'[[Rameshwar Thakur]]”'<br/>{{small|(1925{{ndash}}2015)}}

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| rowspan=”2″| [[Pratibha Patil]]

| rowspan=”2″| [[Pratibha Patil]]

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| [[File:Hans Raj Bhardwaj.png|70px]]

| [[File:Hans Raj Bhardwaj.png|70px]]

| ”'[[H. R. Bhardwaj]]”'<br/>{{small|(1939{{ndash}}2020)}}

| ”'[[H. R. Bhardwaj]]”'<br/>{{small|(1939{{ndash}}2020)}}

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| rowspan=”2″| [[Pranab Mukherjee]]

| rowspan=”2″| [[Pranab Mukherjee]]

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| [[File:February 19, 2018. The Governor of Karnataka, Shri Vajubhai Vala .jpg|70px]]

| [[File:February 19, 2018. The Governor of Karnataka, Shri Vajubhai Vala .jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Vajubhai Vala]]”'<br/>{{small|(born 1937)}}

| ”'[[Vajubhai Vala]]”'<br/>{{small|(born 1937)}}

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| ”'{{ayd|1 Sep 2014|10 Jul 2021}}”’

| ”'{{ayd|1 Sep 2014|10 Jul 2021}}”’

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| [[File:Thawar Chand Gehlot.jpg|70px]]

| [[File:Thawar Chand Gehlot.jpg|70px]]

| ”'[[Thawar Chand Gehlot]]”'<br/>{{small|(born 1948)}}

| ”'[[Thawar Chand Gehlot]]”'<br/>{{small|(born 1948)}}

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Karnataka Rajyapalaru list

The governor of Karnataka, formerly governor of Mysore, is the constitutional head of the Indian state of Karnataka. The governor is appointed by the president of India, and holds office at the president’s pleasure. The governor is de jure head of the government of Karnataka; all its executive actions are taken in the governor’s name. However, the governor must act on the advice of the popularly elected council of ministers, headed by the chief minister of Karnataka, which thus holds de facto executive authority in the state. The Constitution of India also empowers the governor to act upon his or her own discretion, such as the ability to appoint or dismiss a ministry, recommend President’s rule, or reserve bills for the president’s assent. Over the years, the exercise of these discretionary powers have given rise to conflict between the elected chief minister and the central government–appointed governor.^[1]

Since 1956, eighteen people have served as the governor of Mysore (as the state was known before 1 November 1973) and Karnataka. The first was Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, who was the state’s Rajpramukh from 1950 to 1956. A majority of Karnataka’s governors have been politicians (ten), another five have been civil servants. V. V. Giri went on become the fourth president of India, and Gopal Swarup Pathak the country’s fourth vice president. Smt V. S. Ramadevi was the first and only woman governor of Karnataka (1999–2002) and also holds the record of first woman chief election commissioner in india.

Legend

• ^† Died in office
• ^§ Transferred
• ^‡ Resigned/removed

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#	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
1		Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919–1974)	Mysore State	1 November 1956	4 May 1964[§][α]	7 years, 185 days	Rajendra Prasad
2		General S. M. Shrinagesh (Retd) (1903–1977)	Maharashtra	4 May 1964	2 April 1965	333 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3		V. V. Giri (1894–1980)	Madras	2 April 1965	12 May 1967[‡][β]	2 years, 40 days
4		Gopal Swarup Pathak (1896–1982)	Uttar Pradesh	13 May 1967	30 August 1969[‡][β]	2 years, 109 days	Zakir Husain
–		Justice A. R. Somanath Iyer Chief Justice, Mysore High Court (Acting)	Mysore State	31 August 1969	23 October 1969	53 days	V. V. Giri
5		Dharma Vira ICS (Retd) (1906–2000)	Uttar Pradesh	23 October 1969	1 February 1972	2 years, 101 days
6		Mohan Lal Sukhadia[a] (1916–1982)	Rajasthan	1 February 1972	10 January 1976	4 years, 252 days[§][γ]
7		Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991)	Uttar Pradesh	10 January 1976	2 August 1977[‡]	1 year, 204 days	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
8		Govind Narain ICS (Retd) (1916–2012)	Uttar Pradesh	2 August 1977	15 April 1983	5 years, 256 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
9		Ashoknath Banerji IAS (Retd) (1929–2006)	West Bengal	16 April 1983	25 February 1988	4 years, 315 days	Zail Singh
10		Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (1921–1983)	Andhra Pradesh	26 February 1988	5 February 1990[‡]	1 year, 344 days	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
–		Justice Shanmughasundaram Mohan (1930–2019) Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court (Acting)	Tamil Nadu	5 February 1990	8 May 1990	92 days
11		Bhanu Pratap Singh (1917–?)	Uttar Pradesh	8 May 1990	6 January 1991[‡]	243 days
–		Khurshed Alam Khan (1919–2013) Governor of Goa until 17 March 1991	Uttar Pradesh	6 January 1991	17 March 1991	8 years, 330 days
12				17 March 1991	2 December 1999
13		V. S. Ramadevi IAS (Retd) (1934–2013)	Andhra Pradesh	2 December 1999	20 February 2002	2 years, 80 days	K. R. Narayanan
14		T. N. Chaturvedi IAS (Retd) (1928–2020)	Uttar Pradesh	21 August 2002	21 August 2007	5 years, 0 days
15		Rameshwar Thakur (1925–2015)	Jharkhand	21 August 2007	29 June 2009[§][δ]	1 year, 312 days	Pratibha Patil
16		H. R. Bhardwaj (1939–2020)	Punjab	30 June 2009	28 June 2014	4 years, 363 days
–		Konijeti Rosaiah (1933–2021) Governor of Tamil Nadu (Additional Charge)	Andhra Pradesh	29 June 2014	31 August 2014	63 days	Pranab Mukherjee
17		Vajubhai Vala (born 1937)	Gujarat	1 September 2014	10 July 2021	6 years, 312 days
18		Thawar Chand Gehlot (born 1948)	Madhya Pradesh	11 July 2021	Incumbent	4 years, 194 days	Ram Nath Kovind

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