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 Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay since 20 October 2022
Formation	24 January 1857
First holder	James 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	2017–2022		^[3]
55	Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay	2022–present

References

1. "Vice-Chancellors". University of Calcutta. 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)