List of presidents of The Asiatic Society

This is a list of presidents of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta).

1700s

 * Sir William Jones (1784–1794)
 * Sir John Shore (1794–1799)
 * Robert Chambers (1799)
 * Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet (1799–1807)

1800s

 * Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1807–?1815)
 * Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1820–1825)
 * John Herbert Harington (1825–1828)
 * Charles Edward Grey (1828–1832)
 * Sir Edward Ryan (1832–1841)
 * Henry Thoby Prinsep (1842–1844)
 * William Wilberforce Bird (1844–1845)
 * Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1845)
 * William Wilberforce Bird (1846–1848)
 * James William Colvile (1848–1859)
 * Arthur Grote (1859–62)
 * Lt. Col. H. E. L. Thuillier (1863)
 * William Stephen Atkinson (1863)
 * Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1863–1867)
 * Dr. Joseph Fayrer (1867–68)
 * Dr. Thomas Oldham (1868–1870)
 * Hon John Budd Phear (1870–1872)
 * Dr. Thomas Oldham (1873)
 * Lt. Col. H. Hyde (1873–1874)
 * Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1875)
 * Dr. Thomas Oldham (1875–1877)
 * Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1877–1878)
 * William Thomas Blanford (1878–1879)
 * Henry Benedict Medlicott (1879–1881)
 * Sir Ashley Eden (1881–1882)
 * Herbert John Reynolds (1882–1884)
 * Henry Francis Blanford (1884–1885)
 * Dr. Rajendralal Mitra (1885)
 * Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson (1886–1887)
 * James Waterhouse (1888–1890)
 * Henry Beveridge (1890–1891)
 * Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1891–1892)
 * Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1893–1894)
 * Charles James Lyall (1894–1895)
 * Alexander Pedler (1895–1896)
 * Dr. Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernle (1897–1898)
 * Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1898–1900)

1900s

 * Sir John Woodburn (1900–1901)
 * Charles Walter Bolton (1902–1905) (Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government)
 * Sir A. H. L. Fraser (1905–1907)
 * Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (3 times) (1907–1908)
 * Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1909–1910)
 * Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1910–1911) (Geologist, born 1855)
 * George Francis Angelo Harris (1911–1912)
 * Thomas David, Baron Carmichael (1913–1915)
 * Sir Leonard Rogers (1915–1916)
 * Henry Hubert Hayden (1917–1918)
 * Haraprasad Shastri (1919–1920)
 * Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (1921–1923)
 * Nelson Annandale (1923–1924)
 * Sir Rajendranath Mookherjee (1924–1925)
 * George H. Tipper (1926–1927) (Superintendent of the Geological Survey in India)
 * Dr. W. A. K. Christie (1927–1928) (Indian Geological Survey)
 * Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari (1928–1929)
 * Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell (1930–1931)
 * Justice C. C. Ghose (1932–1934)
 * Lewis Leigh Fermor (1934–1935)
 * Sir John Anderson (1936–1938)
 * Sir David Ezra (1938–1939)
 * Justice John Lort-Williams (1940–1941)
 * Dr C. S. Fox (1941–1942) (Director of the Geological Survey of India)
 * Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (1942–1944)
 * Dr Meghnad Saha (1945–1946)
 * Justice Norman George Armstrong Edgley (1946–1947)
 * Dr Bimala Churn Law (1947–1948)
 * Dr D. West (1948)
 * Justice Ramaprasad Mookherjee (1948–1950)
 * Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra (1951–1953)
 * Prof S. K. Chatterji (1953–1955)
 * Dr D. M. Bose (1955–1957)
 * Dr S. N. Sen (1957–1959)
 * Dr Nalinaksha Dutt (1959–1961)
 * Dr A. C. Ukil (1961–1962)
 * Dr U. N. Ghoshal (1963–1964)
 * Dr K. N. Bagchi (1964–1965)
 * Prof R. C. Majumdar (1966–1968)
 * Prof Satyendra Nath Bose (1968–1969)
 * Prof S. K. Chatterji (1970–1971)
 * Prof Nirmal Kumar Bose (1972)
 * M. M. Basu (1972)
 * Dr B. Mukherji (1972–1974)
 * Prof. K. Saraswati (1975–1977)
 * Dr Gouri Nath Sastri (1977–1978)
 * Dr D. Bose (1979–1981)
 * P. C. Gupta (1981–1982)
 * S. N. Sen (1983)
 * Dr R. K. Pal (1983–1985)
 * Dr Sukumar Sen (1985–1987)
 * Dr M. M. Chakraborty (1987–1988)
 * In administration (1988–1992)
 * Dr M M Chakraborty (1992–1996)
 * Prof Dilip Kumar Biswas (1997–1999)
 * Prof Bhaskar Roychowdhury (1999–2001)

2000s

 * Prof Biswanath Banerji (2001–2002)
 * Prof Amalendu De (2002–2003)
 * Prof Biswanath Banerji (2004–2012)
 * Prof Pallab Sengupta (2012–2014)
 * Prof Ramakanta Chakraborty (2014–2016)
 * Prof Isha Mahammad (2016–2020)
 * Prof Swapan Pramanick (2020–present)

References and sources

 * References


 * Sources
 * Official website of The Asiatic Society, Presidents and Secretaries of The Asiatic Society