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.
List of parliamentary under-secretaries of state
India (1858–1937)
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! Portrait
! Name
! colspan=2 | Term of office
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| Henry Baillie
| 1858
| 1859
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| Thomas Baring
| 1859
| 1861
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| George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey
| 1861
| 1861
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| Thomas Baring
| 1861
| 1864
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| John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse
| 1864
| 1864
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| Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye
| 1864
| 1866
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| James Stansfeld
| 1866
| 1866
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| Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet
| 1866
| 1867
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| Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton
| 1867
| 1868
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| M. E. Grant Duff
| 1868
| 1874
|-
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| Lord George Hamilton
| 1874
| 1878
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| Edward Stanhope
| 1878
| 1880
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| Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
| 1880
| 1880
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| George Byng, Viscount Enfield
| 1880
| 1883
|-
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| John Kynaston Cross
| 1883
| 1885
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| George Harris, 4th Baron Harris
| 1885
| 1886
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| Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet
| 1886
| 1886
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| Stafford Howard
| 1886
| 1886
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| Sir John Eldon Gorst
| 1886
| 1891
|-
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| George Curzon
| 1891
| 1892
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| George W. E. Russell
| 1892
| 1894
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| Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
| 1894
| 1895
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| William Onslow
| 1895
| 1900
|-
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| Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke
| 1900
| 1902
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| Henry Percy, Earl Percy
| 1902
| 1904
|-
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|Vacant
| 1904
| 1904
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| Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath
| 1904
| 1905
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| John Ellis
| 1905
| 1907
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| Charles Hobhouse
| 1907
| 1908
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| Thomas Buchanan
| 1908
| 1909
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| Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank
| 1909
| 1910
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| Edwin Samuel Montagu
| 1910
| 1914
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| Charles Henry Roberts
| 1914
| 1915
|-
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| John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington
| 1915
| 1919
|-
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| Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha
| 1919
| 1920
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| Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
| 1920
| 1922
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| Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
| 1922
| 1924
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| Robert Richards
| 1924
| 1924
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| Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton
| 1924
| 1929
|-
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| Drummond Shiels
| 1929
| 1929
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| Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell
| 1929
| 1931
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| Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
| 1931
| 1931
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|Vacant
| 1931
| 1931
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| Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
| 1931
| 1932
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| Rab Butler
| 1932
| 1937
|}
India and Burma (1937–1948)
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! colspan=2 | Portrait
! Name
! colspan=2 | Term of office
! Political party
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| style="background-color: " |
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|Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley <br /> <small>MP for Fylde</small>
| 1937
| 1938
| Conservative
|-
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| Anthony Muirhead<br /> <small>MP for Wells</small>
| 1938
| 1939†
| Conservative
|-
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|Hugh O'Neill<br /><small>MP for Antrim</small>
| 1939
| 1940
| Ulster Unionist
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|Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
| 1940
| 1943
| Conservative
|-
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|Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster
| 1943
| 1944
| Conservative
|-
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|William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
| 1944
| 1945
| Labour
|-
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|Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough
| 1945
| 1945
| Conservative
|-
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| Arthur Henderson<br /><small>MP for Kingswinford</small>
| 1945
| 1947
| Labour
|}
<span id="Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India"></span>List of permanent under-secretaries of state
India (1858–1937)
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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! Portrait
! Name
! colspan=2 | Term of office
|-
| 75px
| Sir George Russell Clerk
| 1858
| 1860
|-
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| Herman Merivale
| 1860
| 1874
|-
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| Sir Louis Mallet
| 1874
| 1883
|-
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| Sir Arthur Godley
| 1883
| 1909
|-
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| Sir Richmond Ritchie
| 1909
| 1912
|-
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| Sir Thomas Holderness
| 1912
| 1920
|-
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| Sir William Duke
| 1920
| 1924
|-
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| Sir Arthur Hirtzel
| 1924
| 1930
|-
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| Sir Findlater Stewart
| 1930
| 1937
|}
India and Burma (1937–1948)
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Portrait
! Name<br /><small>Honorifics</small>
! colspan=2 | Term of office
|-
| 75px
| Sir Findlater Stewart
| 1937
| 1941
|-
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| Sir David Monteath
| 1941
| 1948
|}
See also
- Secretary of State for India
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