The Prime Minister of India is considered the top person in the government of India. However, President is the constitutional head, Prime Minister and the council of ministers are vested with the power to design the policies of the Government of India.
Below is the list of Prime Ministers from 1947 to 2022 and their tenure in chronological order.
| No. | Name | Term of Office | Importance |
| 1 | Jawaharlal Nehru (INC) | 1947 – 1964 | First PM died in office. |
| Gulzarilal Nanda (INC) | 1964 | First acting PM | |
| 2 | Lal Bahadur Shastri (INC) | 1964 – 1966 | Died the next day of Tashkent Agreement on 10 Jan 1966 |
| Gulzarilal Nanda (INC) | 1966 | As acting PM | |
| 3 | Indira Gandhi (INC) | 1966 – 1977 | First women PM, National Emergency declared in 1975 |
| 4 | Morarji Desai (Janata Party) | 1977 – 1979 | First non-congress PM |
| 5 | Charan Singh (Janata Party Secular) | 1979 – 1980 | |
| Indira Gandhi (INC) | 1980 – 1984 | Assassinated in New Delhi by two of her own bodyguards | |
| 6 | Rajiv Gandhi (INC) | 1984 – 1989 | |
| 7 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh (Janata Dal) | 1989 – 1990 | |
| 8 | Chandra Shekhar (Samajwadi Janata Party) | 1990 – 1991 | |
| 9 | P. V. Narasimha Rao (INC) | 1991 – 1996 | Rao Manmohan Model / 8th 5 year plan |
| 10 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP) | 1996 (16days) | |
| 11 | H. D. Deve Gowda (Janata Dal) | 1996 – 1997 | |
| 12 | Inder Kumar Gujral (Janata Dal) | 1997 – 1998 | |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP) | 1998 – 2004 | 1999 – 2004 first BJP full term government | |
| 13 | Manmohan Singh (INC) | 2004 – 2014 | |
| 14 | Narendra Modi (BJP) | 2014 – Present |
