The General Awareness section is a pertinent section in many Teaching Government Exam in India. Therefore, candidates preparing for Teaching Government Jobs must start preparing for General Knowledge at the inception of the preparation routine. They should keep track of the current affairs of national and international importance in detail along with brushing up on the static GK. This article discusses one such essential topic which has been witnessed in the Teaching Job Exams in the past few years – List of Tamilnadu Governors 1947-2023.
List of Governors in Karnataka
Tamilnadu Governors
The Governor of Tamil Nadu is the appointed head of the state, representing the President of India. The Governor is appointed by the President on the advice of the Union Cabinet. The Governor’s role is largely ceremonial and symbolic, with limited executive powers. The Governor has the power to appoint the Chief Minister and other ministers of the state government and to dissolve the state assembly on the advice of the Chief Minister. The current Governor of Tamil Nadu is Banwarilal Purohit, who assumed office in October 2017.
List of Tamilnadu Governors 1947-2023
Check out the List of Tamilnadu Governors 1947-2023 given in the following table. The candidates must go through the entire List of Tamilnadu Governors 1947-2023 and try to remember as much as possible for their upcoming Teaching Government Job Exams.
| Name (Birth–Death) | Term of Office | |
|---|---|---|
| Assumed Office | Left Office | |
| Ujjal Singh (1895–1983) | 14 January 1969 | 25 May 1971 |
| K. K. Shah (1908–1986) | 26 May 1971 | 15 June 1976 |
| Mohan Lal Sukhadia (1916–1982) | 16 June 1976 | 8 April 1977 |
| P. Govindan Nair (Unknown–Unknown) | 9 April 1977 | 26 April 1977 |
| Prabhudas B. Patwari (1909–1985) | 27 April 1977 | 26 October 1980 |
| M. M. Ismail (1921–2005) | 27 October 1980 | 3 November 1980 |
| Sadiq Ali (1910–2001) | 4 November 1980 | 2 September 1982 |
| S. L. Khurana (1918–2007) | 3 September 1982 | 16 February 1988 |
| P. C. Alexander (1921–2011) | 17 February 1988 | 23 May 1990 |
| Surjit Singh Barnala (1925–2017) | 24 May 1990 | 14 February 1991 |
| Bhishma Narain Singh (1933–2018) | 15 February 1991 | 30 May 1993 |
| M. Channa Reddy (1919–1996) | 31 May 1993 | 2 December 1996[†] |
| Krishan Kant (1927–2002) | 2 December 1996 | 24 January 1997 |
| M. Fathima Beevi (1927–) | 25 January 1997 | 2 July 2001 |
| C. Rangarajan (1932-) | 3 July 2001 | 17 January 2002 |
| P. S. Ramamohan Rao (1934-) | 18 January 2002 | 2 November 2004 |
| Surjit Singh Barnala (1925–2017) | 3 November 2004 | 30 August 2011 |
| Konijeti Rosaiah (1933–2021) | 31 August 2011 | 1 September 2016 |
| C. Vidyasagar Rao (1942–) | 2 September 2016 | 5 October 2017 |
| Banwarilal Purohit (1939–) | 6 October 2017 | 17 September 2021 |
| R. N. Ravi (1952–) | 18 September 2021 | Incumbent |
