Under-Secretary of State for India

This is a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and Permanent Under-Secretaries of State at the India Office during the period of British rule between 1858 and 1937 for India(and Burma by extension), and for India and Burma from 1937 to 1948.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State was a ministerial position and the Permanent Under-Secretary of State was a civil service position.

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858–1937

Name	Term of office
Henry Baillie	1858	1859
Hon. Thomas Baring	1859	1861
The Earl de Grey	1861	1861
Hon. Thomas Baring	1861	1864
The Lord Wodehouse	1864	1864
The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye	1864	1866
James Stansfeld	1866	1866
Sir James Fergusson, Bt	1866	1867
The Lord Clinton	1867	1868
M. E. Grant Duff	1868	1874
Lord George Hamilton	1874	1878
Hon. Edward Stanhope	1878	1880
The Marquess of Lansdowne	1880	1880
Viscount Enfield	1880	1883
John Kynaston Cross	1883	1885
The Lord Harris	1885	1886
Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt	1886	1886
Stafford Howard	1886	1886
Sir John Eldon Gorst	1886	1891
Hon. George Curzon	1891	1892
George W. E. Russell	1892	1894
The Lord Reay	1894	1895
The Earl of Onslow	1895	1900
The Earl of Hardwicke	1900	1902
Earl Percy	1902	1904
Vacant	1904	1904
The Marquess of Bath	1904	1905
John Ellis	1905	1907
Charles Hobhouse	1907	1908
Thomas Buchanan	1908	1909
The Master of Elibank	1909	1910
Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu	1910	1914
Charles Henry Roberts	1914	1915
The Lord Islington	1915	1919
The Lord Sinha	1919	1920
The Earl of Lytton	1920	1922
The Earl Winterton	1922	1924
Robert Richards	1924	1924
The Earl Winterton	1924	1929
Drummond Shiels	1929	1929
The Earl Russell	1929	1931
The Lord Snell	1931	1931
Vacant	1931	1931
The Marquess of Lothian	1931	1932
Rab Butler	1932	1937

Name	Term of office		Political party
Lord Stanley MP for Fylde	1937	1938	Conservative
Anthony Muirhead MP for Wells	1938	1939†	Conservative
Hugh O'Neill MP for Antrim	1939	1940	Ulster Unionist
The Duke of Devonshire	1940	1943	Conservative
The Earl of Munster	1943	1944	Conservative
The Earl of Listowel	1944	1945	Labour
The Earl of Scarbrough	1945	1945	Conservative
Arthur Henderson MP for Kingswinford	1945	1947	Labour

Portrait	Name Honorifics	Term of office
	Sir Findlater Stewart GCIE KCB CSI	1937	1941
	Sir David Monteath KCB KCMG CVO OBE	1941	1948

History of English and British government departments with responsibility for foreign affairs and those with responsibility for the colonies, dominions and the Commonwealth
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	Colonial Office 1768–1782 Secretaries — Undersecretaries	Southern Department 1768–1782 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Foreign Office 1782–1968 Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries	Home Office 1782–1794 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
	War Office 1794–1801 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
	War and Colonial Office 1801–1854 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
	Colonial Office 1854–1925 Secretaries — Undersecretaries		India Office 1858–1937 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
	Colonial Office 1925–1966 Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries	Dominions Office 1925–1947 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
			India Office and Burma Office 1937–1947 Secretaries — Undersecretaries
		Commonwealth Relations Office 1947–1966 Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
	Commonwealth Office 1966–1968 Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968–2020 Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Since 2020 Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries

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