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
