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India





Parliament
Parliament is bicameral and is located in New Delhi.
The Lok Sabha has 545 members. 543 members are elected by popular vote. 2 members are named by the president. They serve five-year terms. The Rajya Sabha has a maximum of 250 members. The president may nominate up to 12 members. The rest are elected by state and territorial legislatures. The body serves six-year terms.

Governors-General and/or Viceroys
1774-1785   Warren Hastings
1786-1793   Marquess Cornwallis
1793-1798   Lord Teignmouth
1798-1805   Earl of Mornington
1805-1805   Marquess Cornwallis
1807-1813   Earl of Minto
1814-1823   Earl of Moira
1823-1828   Earl Amherst
1828-1835   Lord William Bentinck
1835-1842   Earl of Auckland
1835-1842   Earl of Ellenborough
1844-1848   Viscount Hardinge
1848-1856   Marquis James Dalhousie
1856-1862   Lord Charles Canning
1876-1880   Lord Edward Lytton
1880-1884   Lord George Frederick Ripon
1884-1898   Lord Frederick Dufferin
1898-1905   Lord George Curzon
1905-1911   Lord Gilbert Minto
1911-1916   Lord Charles Hardinge
1916-1921   Lord Frederick Chelmsford
1921-1926   Lord Rufus Reading
1926-1931   Lord Freeman Willingdon
1931-1936   Lord Edward Irwin
1936-1943   Lord Victor Linlithgow
1943-1947   Lord Archibald Wavell
1947-1948   Lord Louis Mountbatten

Presidents
1950-1962   Rajendra Prasad
1962-1967   Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
1967-1969   Zakir Husain
1969-1969   Varahagiri Venkata Giri
1969-1969   Muhammad Hidayat Ullah
1969-1974   Varahagiri Venkata Giri
1974-1977   Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
1977-1977   Basappa Danappa Jatti
1977-1982   Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
1982-1987   Zail Singh
1987-1992   Ramaswamy Iyer Venkataraman
1992-1997   Shankar Dayal Sharma
1997-2002   Kocheril Raman Narayanan
2002-2007   Avul Pakiri Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
2007 now   Pratibha Patil

Prime Ministers
1947-1964   Jawaharlal Pandit Nehru
1964-1966   Lal Bahadur Shastri
1966-1977   Indira Gandhi
1977-1980   Morarji Desai
1980-1984   Indira Gandhi
1984-1989   Rajiv Gandhi
1989-1990   Vishwanath Pratap Singh
1990-1991   Chandra Sekhar
1991-1996   Narasimha Rao
1996-1996   Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1996-1997   H. D. Deve Gowda
1997-1998   Inder Kumar Gujral
1998-2004   Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2004 now   Manmohan Singh




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