Explanation
LIST OF CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF OF THE INDIAN ARMY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:
1. General Sir Rob Lockhart (1947-1948)
2. General Sir Francis Butcher (1948-1951)
3. General Sir Robert Cassels (1951-1955)
4. General Sir Rudolph Gurbaksh Singh (1955-1957)
5. General Kodandera Subayya Thimayya (1957-1961)
6. General Pran Nath Thapar (1961-1962)
7. General J. N. Chaudhuri (1962-1966)
8. General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam (1966-1969)
9. General Sam Manekshaw (1969-1973)
10. General G. G. Bewoor (1973-1975)
11. General T. A. Raina (1975-1978)
12. General Om Prakash Malhotra (1978-1981)
13. General K. V. Krishna Rao (1981-1983)
14. General A. S. Vaidya (1983-1986)
15. General K. Sunderji (1986-1988)
16. General V. N. Sharma (1988-1990)
17. General S. F. Rodrigues (1990-1993)
18. General B. C. Joshi (1993-1994)
19. General Shankar Roychowdhury (1994-1997)
20. General Ved Prakash Malik (1997-2000)
21. General S. Padmanabhan (2000-2002)
22. General Nirmal Chander Vij (2002-2005)
23. General J. J. Singh (2005-2007)
24. General Deepak Kapoor (2007-2010)
25. General V. K. Singh (2010-2012)
26. General Bikram Singh (2012-2014)
27. General Dalbir Singh Suhag (2014-2016)
28. General Bipin Rawat (2016-2019)
29. General Manoj Mukund Naravane (2019-2022)
30. General M. M. Naravane (2022-Present) [Note: General Naravane was reappointed as the Chief of Army Staff in 2022 for a second term.]
