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List of Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India

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This is a list of Knights Grand Commander (Knights 1861-1866) of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India from 1861 until 1947, when the order ceased to be awarded. The Viceroy of India served as ex-officio Grand Master of the Order, and was automatically appointed as a Knight Grand Commander upon taking office.

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1860s

  • 1861-1866: See List of Knights Companion of the Order of the Star of India
  • 1867: HH The Maharaja of Mysore, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier
  • 1868: HE Sir William Vesey-Fitzgerald, Governor of the Bombay Presidency
  • 1869: The Rana of Dholpur

    • 1870s

  • 1870: The Maharaja of Patiala; Mir Turab Ali Khan, Salar Jung I, Prime Minister of Hyderabad
  • 1871: The Maharana of Udaipur; the Rao of Cutch
  • 1872: HH The Nawab Begum of Bhopal; John Strachey; John Cracroft Wilson
  • 1873: HE Maharaja Jang Bahadur, Prime Minister of Nepal; General Sir John Low; Lieutenant-General Neville Bowles Chamberlain
  • 1875: Jaswant Singh II, the Maharaja of Jodhpur; Kalib Ali Khan, the Nawab of Rampur; Raghubir Singh, the Maharaja of Jind
  • 1876: HE The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Governor of the Madras Presidency; HE Sir Philip Wodehouse, Governor of the Bombay Presidency
  • 1877: HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; HH Ram Singh, Maharao Raja of Bundi; HH Jashwant Singh, the Maharaja of Bharatpur; HH Iswari Presad Narayan Singh, the Maharaja of Benares; HH Zahir-ud-Daula, the Prince of Arcot, HRH The Prince Leopold HRH The Duke of Cambridge
  • 1878: HE Sir Richard Temple, Governor of the Bombay Presidency, Sir John Strachey
  • 1879: General Sir Frederick Haines; The Raja of Nabha

    • 1880s

  • 1880: Viscount Cranbrook, Secretary of State for India, HH the Nawab of Bahawalpur
  • 1882: The Maharaja of Travancore; HH the Nawab Iqbal ud-Daula of Awadh
  • 1884: Nizam of Hyderabad
  • 1885: Sir James Fergusson, Governor of the Bombay Presidency, General Sir Donald Martin Stewart
  • 1886: Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman; Mangal Singh Prabhakar, Maharao Raja of Alwar; Takhtsinhji, Maharaja of Bhavnagar
  • 1887: Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda; Fateh Singh, the Maharana of Udaipur; HH Shamsher Prakash, Raja of Sirmur, Shivajirao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore
  • 1888: HH Madho Singh, Maharaja of Jaipur, Maharaja of Travancore

    • 1890s

  • 1890: Lord Reay, Governor of the Bombay Presidency
  • 1892: Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Viscount Cross, Secretary of State for India
  • 1893: Lord Roberts of Kandahar
  • 1895: Shahu Chhatrapati, Raja of Kolhapur, the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, George Canning, Lord Harris, Henry Hartley Fowler
  • 1896: Lord Wenlock, Governor of the Madras Presidency
  • 1897: HH Venkatesh Raman Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewa; HE Maharaja Sir Bir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal; Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces; Lieutenant-Colonel Maharajadhiraja Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur of Jodhpur; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey
  • 1898: The Maharaja of Patiala, General Sir George Stewart White, Commander-in-Chief, India

    • 1900s

  • 1900: Lord Sandhurst, Governor of the Bombay Presidency
  • 1901: Sir Arthur Havelock, former Governor of the Madras Presidency
  • 1903: Lord George Hamilton; The Raja of Cochin
  • 1906: HH Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Orchha
  • 1907: Krishnaraja Wodiyar, Maharaja of Mysore
  • 1909: HH Rasul Khanji Mahabat Khanji, Nawab of Junagadh

    • 1910s

  • 1910: Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal; HH Sardar Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
  • 1911: Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley, former Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal; Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab; Sir William Lee-Warner, Member of the Council of India, General Sir Dighton Macnaghton Probyn, Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad; Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner; Umed Singh II, Maharao of Kota; Jagatjit Singh, Maharaja of Kapurthala; The Aga Khan III; Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay; Sir Arthur Lawley, former Governor of Madras; Sir John Prescott Hewett; HE Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh, Commander-in-Chief, India
  • 1913: HH Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Nawab of Tonk
  • 1916: HH Sheikh Khaz'al Bin Jabir, Amir of Mohammerah,
  • 1916: HE General Sir Beauchamp Duff, Commander-in-Chief, India
  • 1917: Khengarji III, Rao of Kutch
  • 1918: Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras; Lord Willingdon, Governor of Bombay
  • 1919: HH Raghubir Singh, Maharao Raja of Bundi; General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Commander-in-Chief, India

    • 1920s

  • 1921: The Prince of Wales, HH Prabhu Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Benares; Bhupinder Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Patiala, Muhammad Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur
  • 1923: Ranjitsinhji, Maharaja of Nawanagar
  • 1924: Sir George Ambrose Lloyd, former Governor of Bombay
  • 1925: Viscount Lee of Fareham
  • 1928: Earl of Birkenhead, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, former Governor of Burma
  • 1929: Viscount Goschen, Governor of Madras

    • 1930s

  • 1930: Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief, India, Sir John Simon; Field-Marshal Sir Claud Jacob
  • 1931: Bhupal Singh, Maharana of Udaipur; Rajaram Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur
  • 1932: Earl Peel, HH Hajji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal; Sir William Malcolm Hailey, Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, Governor of Bengal
  • 1933: Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir
  • 1934: Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, Air Vice-Marshal The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Sykes
  • 1936: Umaid Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
  • 1937: Bhagvat Singh, Maharaja of Gondal, Ranbir Singh, Maharaja of Jind, Lord Brabourne, Governor of Bengal, Sir John Anderson

    • 1940s

  • 1940: John Erskine, Lord Erskine, HE General Sir Robert Cassels, Commander-in-Chief, India
  • 1943: Sir Roger Lumley
  • 1945: Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore
  • 1946: George Jivajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior; Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore
  • 1947: Digvijaysinhji, Maharaja of Nawanagar, Shahoji II Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur; Sawai Man Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur; Sadul Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner; Sir Archibald Nye, Governor of Madras; Sir Frederick Burrows, Governor of Bengal

    • Honorary Knights Grand Commander

  • 1868: Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt
  • 1870: Ferdinand de Lesseps
  • 1873: Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh, Grand Vizier of Persia
  • 1875: Tewfik Pasha of Egypt
  • 1878: Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Saffet Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
  • 1879: HH Khudadad Khan, Khan of Kalat
  • 1885: Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan
  • 1887: Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, Governor-General of Isfahan, Arabistan, Kurdistan, Yazd, etc.
  • 1890: Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar
  • 1894: Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar
  • 1909: Prince Auguste Louis Alberic d'Arenberg, President of the Suez Canal Company
  • 1935: HH Maharaja Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal
  • 1945: HH Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Commander-in-Chief, Nepalese Army

    • References

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