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)

Portrait Name Term of office Henry BaillieBurke's Landed Gentry 1886, page 71 1858 1859 Thomas Baring 1859 1861 George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey 1861 1861 Thomas Baring 1861 1864 John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse 1864 1864 Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye 1864 1866 James Stansfeld 1866 1866 Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet 1866 1867 Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton 1867 1868 M. E. Grant Duff 1868 1874 Lord George Hamilton 1874 1878 Edward Stanhope 1878 1880 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne 1880 1880 George Byng, Viscount Enfield 1880 1883 John Kynaston Cross 1883 1885 George Harris, 4th Baron Harris 1885 1886 Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet 1886 1886 Stafford Howard 1886 1886 Sir John Eldon Gorst 1886 1891 George Curzon 1891 1892 George W. E. Russell 1892 1894 Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay 1894 1895 William Onslow 1895 1900 Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke 1900 1902 Henry Percy, Earl Percy 1902 1904 Vacant 1904 1904 Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath 1904 1905 John Ellis 1905 1907 Charles Hobhouse 1907 1908 Thomas Buchanan 1908 1909 Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank 1909 1910 Edwin Samuel Montagu 1910 1914 Charles Henry Roberts 1914 1915 John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington 1915 1919 Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha 1919 1920 Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton 1920 1922 Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1922 1924 Robert Richards 1924 1924 Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton 1924 1929 Drummond Shiels 1929 1929 Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell 1929 1931 Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell 1931 1931 Vacant 1931 1931 Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian 1931 1932 Rab Butler 1932 1937

India and Burma (1937–1948)

Portrait Name Term of office Political partyEdward Stanley, Baron Stanley MP for Fylde 1937 1938 Conservative Anthony Muirhead MP for Wells 1938 1939† Conservative Hugh O'NeillMP for Antrim 1939 1940 Ulster UnionistEdward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire 1940 1943 Conservative Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster 1943 1944 Conservative William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel 1944 1945 Labour Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough 1945 1945 Conservative Arthur HendersonMP for Kingswinford 1945 1947 Labour

List of permanent under-secretaries of state India (1858–1937)

Portrait Name Term of office Sir George Russell Clerk 1858 1860 Herman Merivale 1860 1874 Sir Louis Mallet 1874 1883 Sir Arthur Godley 1883 1909 Sir Richmond Ritchie 1909 1912 Sir Thomas Holderness 1912 1920 Sir William Duke 1920 1924 Sir Arthur Hirtzel 1924 1930 Sir Findlater Stewart 1930 1937

India and Burma (1937–1948)

Portrait NameHonorifics Term of office Sir Findlater Stewart 1937 1941 Sir David Monteath 1941 1948

See also Secretary of State for India

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