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Chiefs of the Army Staff of India and the year each took over: GK quiz

15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: Indian Army - Chief of the Army Staff (list of COAS), English version ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026

  1. Question 1 of 15

    In which year did General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    In which year did General TN Raina take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    In which year did General Deepak Kapoor take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    In which year did General PP Kumaramangalam take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    In which year did General S Padmanabhan take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    In which year did General VP Malik take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    In which year did General Upendra Dwivedi take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    In which year did General KV Krishna Rao take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    In which year did General PN Thapar take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    In which year did General Dhiraj Seth take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    In which year did General Sir Mcgregor Macdonald Lockhart take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    In which year did Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    In which year did General KS Rajendra Sinhji take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    In which year did Field Marshal KM Cariappa take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    In which year did General OP Malhotra take over as Chief of the Army Staff?

The official list (33 rows)

Chief of the Army StaffYear took over
General Sir Mcgregor Macdonald Lockhart1947
General Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher1948
Field Marshal KM Cariappa1949
General KS Rajendra Sinhji1953
General SM Shrinagesh1955
General KS Thimayya1957
General PN Thapar1961
General JN Chaudhuri1962
General PP Kumaramangalam1966
Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw1969
General GG Bewoor1973
General TN Raina1975
General OP Malhotra1978
General KV Krishna Rao1981
General AS Vaidya1983
General K Sundarji1986
General VN Sharma1988
General SF Rodrigues1990
General BC Joshi1993
General S Roy Chowdhury1994
General VP Malik1997
General S Padmanabhan2000
General NC Vij2002
General JJ Singh2005
General Deepak Kapoor2007
General VK Singh2010
General Bikram Singh2012
General Dalbir Singh2014
General Bipin Rawat2016
General MM Naravane2019
General Manoj Pande2022
General Upendra Dwivedi2024
General Dhiraj Seth2026

Left out or changed by Shishya: None left out. Year = year of the start date printed in brackets after each name (page lists General Dhiraj Seth from 30 Jun 2026 'to Till Date'). Years repeat (1949, 1953, 1955 etc.) so reverse is null. Lockhart and Bucher kept because the page lists them in the COAS list. Double spaces in printed names collapsed to one.

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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