Jawaharlal Nehru1947
Appointed Prime Minister of India, the first under Indian independence.
India · Government / Government of India. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Appointed Prime Minister of India, the first under Indian independence.
Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India.
Morarji Desai becomes India's first Prime Minister from a non-Congress government.
Charan Singh becomes Prime Minister with outside Congress support but never faces a confidence vote in Parliament.
V.P. Singh becomes Prime Minister at the head of the National Front government.
Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister with outside support from Congress.
P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister after the 1991 general election.
H.D. Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister at the head of the United Front coalition.
I.K. Gujral becomes Prime Minister after the fall of the Deve Gowda government.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee becomes Prime Minister following the 1998 general election.
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