Commander-in-Chief, India

Prior to independence, the official residence of the Commander-in-Chief, India, was Flagstaff House, Delhi, which later became the residence of the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and was renamed Teen Murti Bhavan (Teen Murti House). It is now a museum.

This is a list of people who were the military Commander-in-Chief, India until 1947. The rank and title are the final ones for the officer's career and not necessarily applicable to his tenure as Commander-in-Chief in India.

P.R. Cadell wrote an article correcting and elaborating on the early commanders-in-chief of the East India Company's forces in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research in 1944.

List of Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief have been:

† denotes people who died in office.

Commanders-in-Chief of India, 1801–1857

Commanders-in-Chief of India, 1861–1947