List of vice-chancellors of the University of Calcutta

The vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, a university in Kolkata, India, is the executive head of the university.[1] Following the establishment in 1857, James William Colvile served as the first vice-chancellor of the university.

Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta
Incumbent
Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee
since 15 July 2017
Formation24 January 1857
First holderJames William Colvile

List of vice-chancellors
S. No. Name[1] Term Image Notes
1 James William Colvile 1857–1859
2 William Ritchie 1859–1862
3 Claudius James Erskine 1862–1863
4 Henry Sumner Maine 1863–1867
5 W. S. Seton-Karr 1867–1869
6 Edward Clive Bayley 1869–1875
7 Arthur Hobhouse 1875–1877
8 William Markby 1877–1878
9 Alexander Arbuthnot 1878–1880
10 Arthur Wilson 1880–1884
11 H. J. Reynolds 1883–1886
12 C. P. Ilbert 1886
13 William Wilson Hunter 1886–1887
14 William Comer Petheram 1887–1889
15 Gooroodas Banerjee 1890–1892 First Indian vice chancellor of the university
16 Jones Quain Pigot 1893
17 Alfred Woodley Croft 1893–1896
18 E. J. Trevelyan 1897–1898
19 Francis William Maclean 1898–1900
20 Thomas Raleigh 1900–1904
21 Alexander Pedler 1904–1906
22 Asutosh Mookerjee 1906–1914
23 Devaprasad Sarvadhikary 1914–1918
24 Lancelot Sanderson 1918–1919
25 Nilratan Sircar 1919–1921
26 Asutosh Mookerjee (second term) 1921–1923
27 Bhupendra Nath Bose 1923–1924
28 William Ewart Greaves 1924–1926
29 Jadunath Sarkar 1926–1928
30 W. S. Urquhart 1928–1930
31 Hassan Suhrawardy 1930–1934
32 Syama Prasad Mookerjee 1934–1938
33 Sir Azizul Huque 1938–1942
34 Bidhan Chandra Roy 1942–1944
35 Radhabinod Pal 1944–1946
36 Pramathanath Banerjee 1946–1949
37 Charuchandra Biswas 1949–1950
38 Sambhunath Banerjee 1950–1954
39 Jnan Chandra Ghosh 1954–1955
40 Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta 1955–1960
41 Subodh Mitra 1960–1961
42 Surajit Chandra Lahiri 1962
43 Bidhubhushan Malik 1962–1968
44 S. N. Sen 1968–1976
45 Sushil Kumar Mukherjee 1976–1979
46 Ramendra Kumar Podder 1979–1983
47 Santosh Bhattacharyya 1983–1987 [2]
48 Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri 1987–1991
49 Rathindra Narayan Basu 1991–1999
50 Asis Kumar Banerjee 1999–2008
51 Suranjan Das 2008–2015
52 Sugata Marjit 2015–2016
53 Ashutosh Ghosh 2016–2017
54 Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee 2017–Incumbent [3]

References
  1. "Vice-Chancellors". University of Calcutta. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. "The VC who fought Red shackles at CU". The Times of India. 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2021-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Basu, Somdatta (2017-08-26). "Calcutta University gets full-term VC after more than 2 years". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-07-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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