List of Governors of Portuguese India

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This list gives the names of the governors of Portuguese India . The administrators on behalf of the Portuguese crown had different titles. The title of viceroy was given to those of great merit . It was first awarded by King Manuel I to Tristão da Cunha , who could not take up the office due to a temporary blindness. Instead, Francisco de Almeida became the first viceroy of Portuguese India ( Estado da India ). His successor Afonso de Albuquerque again received only the title of governor. In 1774 the title of viceroy was officially abolished, but it continued to be given sporadically until it was finally abolished in 1835.

The governors / viceroys from Goa (capital from 1510) administered not only the Portuguese possessions in India, but also the other colonies on the Indian Ocean and Asia : East Africa (until 1752), Macau , Portuguese Timor and the other East Asian colonies for over 200 years Colonies (until 1951, with interruptions between 1844 and 1883).

The last Portuguese administrator was deposed in 1961 when India occupied the last Portuguese enclaves. After the Carnation Revolution in 1975, the annexation was recognized by Portugal.

Official title Surname Term of office
Viceroy Francisco de Almeida 1505-1509
governor Afonso de Albuquerque 1509-1515
governor Lopo Soares de Albergaria 1515-1518
governor Diogo Lopes de Sequeira 1518-1522
governor Duarte de Menezes 1522-1524
Viceroy Vasco da Gama 1524
governor Henrique de Menezes 1524-1526
governor Lopo Vaz de Sampaio 1526-1529
governor Nuno da Cunha 1529-1538
Viceroy Garcia de Noronha 1538-1540
governor Estêvão da Gama 1540-1542
governor Martim Afonso de Sousa 1542-1545
Governor
1548 viceroy		 João de Castro 1545-1548 ( 1 )
governor Garcia de Sá 1548-1549
governor Jorge Cabral 1549-1550
Viceroy Afonso de Noronha 1550-1554
Viceroy Pedro de Mascarenhas 1554-1555
governor Francisco Barreto 1555-1558
Viceroy Constantino de Bragança 1558-1561
Viceroy Francisco Coutinho ,
( Count of Redondo)		 1561-1564
governor João de Mendonça Furtado 1564
Viceroy Antão de Noronha 1564-1568
Viceroy Luís de Ataíde ,
(Count of Atouguia)
First term 		1568-1571
governor Antonio de Noronha 1571-1573
governor António Moniz Barreto 1573-1576
Viceroy Rui Lourenço de Távora 1576 ( 1 )
governor Diogo de Menezes 1576-1578
Viceroy Luís de Ataíde,
(Count of Atouguia)
Second term 		1578-1581
governor Fernao Teles de Menezes 1581
Viceroy Francisco de Mascarenhas 1581-1584
Viceroy Duarte de Menezes 1584-1588
governor Manuel de Sousa Coutinho 1588-1591
Viceroy Matias de Albuquerque 1591-1597
Viceroy Francisco da Gama
(Count of Vidigueira)
First term 		1597-1600
Viceroy Aires de Saldanha 1600-1605
Viceroy Martim Afonso de Castro 1605-1607
governor Aleixo de Menezes ,
( Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India)		 1607-1609
governor André Furtado de Mendonça 1609
Viceroy Rui Lourenço de Távora
Second term 		1609-1612
Viceroy Jerónimo de Azevedo 1612-1617
Viceroy João Coutinho 1617-1619
governor Jerónimo Coutinho 1619 ( 1 )
Viceroy Afonso de Noronha 1619 ( 1 )
governor Fernao de Albuquerque 1619-1622
Viceroy Francisco da Gama,
(Count of Vidigueira)
Second term 		1622-1628
Viceroy Luís de Brito e Menezes ,
(Bishop of Meliapor)		 1628-1629
Interim Government Council Nuno Álvares Botelho ,
Lourenço da Cunha and
Gonçalo Pinto da Fonseca 		1629
Viceroy Miguel de Noronha ,
(Count of Linhares)		 1629-1635
Viceroy Pêro da Silva 1635-1639
governor Antonio Teles de Menezes 1639-1640
Viceroy João da Silva Telo e Menezes ,
(Count of Aveiras)
First term 		1640-1644
Viceroy Filipe de Mascarenhas 1644-1651
Viceroy João da Silva Telo e Menezes,
(Count of Aveiras)
Second term 		1651 ( 1 )
Interim Government Council Francisco dos Mártires ,
Francisco de Melo e Castro and
António de Sousa Coutinho 		1651-1652
governor Vasco de Mascarenhas ,
(Count of Óbidos)		 1652-1655
governor Brás de Castro ( Usurper ) 1655
governor Rodrigo da Silveira ,
(Count of Sarzedas)		 1655-1656
governor Manuel Mascarenha's Homem 1656
Interim Government Council Manuel Mascarenhas Homem ,
Francisco de Melo e Castro and
António de Sousa Coutinho 		1656-1661
Interim Government Council Luís de Mendonça Furtado e Albuquerque ,
Manuel Mascarenhas and
Pedro de Lencastre 		1661
Interim Government Council Luís de Mendonça Furtado e Albuquerque ,
António de Melo e Castro and
Pedro de Lencastre 		1661-1662
Interim Government Council Luís de Mendonça Furtado e Albuquerque and
António de Melo e Castro 		Bis 14.
December 16, 1662
Viceroy Antonio de Melo e Castro 1662-1666
Viceroy João Nunes da Cunha ,
(Count of São Vicente)		 1666-1668
Interim Government Council António de Melo e Castro ,
Manuel Corte-Real de Sampaio and
Luís de Miranda Henriques 		1668-1671
Viceroy Luís de Mendonça Furtado e Albuquerque
(Count of Lavradio)		 1671-1676
Viceroy Pedro de Almeida Portugal 1676-1678
Interim Government Council António Brandão ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India) and
António Pais de Sande 		1678
Interim governor António Brandão ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India)		 1678-1681
Viceroy Francisco de Távora ,
(Count of Alvor)		 1681-1686
governor Rodrigo da Costa 1686-1690
governor Miguel de Almeida 1690-1691
Interim Government Council Fernando Martins de Mascarenhas de Lencastre and
Luís Gonçalves Cota 		1691
Interim Government Council Fernando Martins de Mascarenhas de Lencastre and
Agostinho da Anunciação ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India)		 1691-1692
Viceroy Pedro António de Noronha de Albuquerque ,
(Count of Vila Verde and Marquês of Angeja)		 1692-1697
Viceroy António Luís Gonçalves da Câmara Coutinho ,
(Count of Vila Verde)		 1697-1701
Interim Government Council Agostinho da Anunciação ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India) and
Vasco Lima Coutinho 		1701-1702
Viceroy Caetano de Melo e Castro 1702-1707
Viceroy Rodrigo da Costa 1707-1712
Viceroy Vasco Fernandes César de Menezes 1712-1717
governor Sebastião de Andrade Pessanha 1717
Viceroy Luís Carlos Inácio Xavier de Meneses ,
(Count of Ericeira and Marquês of Louriçal)
First term 		1717-1720
Viceroy Francisco José de Sampaio e Castro 1720-1723
Interim governor Cristóvão de Melo 1723
Interim Government Council Cristóvão de Melo ,
Inácio de Santa Teresa ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India) and
Cristóvão Luís de Andrade 		1723-1725
governor João de Saldanha da Gama 1725-1732
Interim Government Council Inácio de Santa Teresa
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India),
Cristóvão de Melo and
Tomé Gomes Moreira 		1732
Viceroy Pedro de Mascarenhas (Count of Sandomil) 1732-1740
Viceroy Luís Carlos Inácio Xavier de Meneses,
(Count of Ericeira and Marquês of Louriçal)
Second term 		1740-1742
Interim Government Council Francisco de Vasconcelos ,
Lourenço de Noronha and
Luís Caetano de Almeida 		1742-1744
Viceroy Pedro Miguel de Almeida Portugal e Vasconcelos ,
(Count of Assumar, Marquês of Castelo Novo and of Alorna)		 1744-1750
Viceroy Francisco de Assis de Távora
(Marquis of Távora)		 1750-1754
Viceroy Luís Mascarenhas
(Count of Alva)		 1754-1756
Interim Government Council António Taveira da Neiva Brum da Silvira
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India),
João de Mesquita Matos Teixeira and
Filipe de Valadares Sotomaior (Governor of Damão )		 1756-1757
Interim governor António Taveira da Neiva Brum da Silvira ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India)		 1757-1758
Viceroy Manuel de Saldanha e Albuquerque ,
(Count of Ega)		 1758-1765
Interim Government Council António Taveira da Neiva Brum da Silvira ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India),
João Baptista Vaz Pereira and
João José de Melo (Royal Finance Minister)		 1765-1768
Governor and
Captain General of India		 João José de Melo 1768-1774
Interim governor Filipe Valadares Sotomaior 1774
Governor and
Captain General of India		 José Pedro da Câmara 1774-1779
Governor and
Captain General of India		 Frederico Guilherme de Sousa Holstein 1779-1786
Governor and
Captain General of India		 Francisco da Cunha e Menezes 1786-1794
Governor and
Captain General of India		 Francisco António da Veiga Cabral da Câmara Pimentel ,
( Visconde by Mirandela)		 1794-1806
Viceroy and
Capitão-Geral da Índia		 Bernardo José Maria da Silveira e Lorena ,
(Count of Sarzedas)		 1806-1816
Viceroy and
Capitão-Geral da Índia		 Diogo de Sousa
(Count of Rio Pardo)		 1816-1821
Provisional
council meeting of the
government of the Estado da Índia 		Manuel José Gomes Loureiro ,
Manuel Godinho Mira ,
Joaquim Manuel Correia da Silva e Gama ,
Gonçalo de Magalhães Teixeira Pinto and
Manuel Duarte Leitão 		1821
Provisional
council meeting of the
government of the Estado da Índia		 Manuel da Câmara ,
Frei de São Tomás de Aquino ,
António José de Melo Sotomaior Teles ,
João Carlos Leal and
António José de Lima Leitão 		1821-1822
Provisional
council meeting of the
government of the Estado da Índia		 Manuel da Câmara ,
Frei de São Tomás de Aquino ,
António José de Melo Sotomaior Teles ,
João Carlos Leal and
Joaquim Mourão Garcez Palha 		1822-1823
Viceroy and
Capitão-Geral da Índia		 Manuel da Câmara (Council meeting dissolved and government taken over) 1823-1825
Governing Council of
the Estado da Índia		 Manuel de São Galdino ,
Cândido José Mourão Garcês Palha e
António Ribeiro de Carvalho 		1825-1826
Governor and
Captain General of India		 Manuel Francisco de Portugal e Castro 1826-1830
Viceroy and
Captain General of India		 Manuel Francisco de Portugal e Castro 1826-1835
governor Bernardo Peres da Silva
First Term (The only indigenous governor of the Estado da India)		 1835
governor Manuel Francisco de Portugal e Castro 1835
governor Manuel Correia da Silva e Gama 1835
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 João Casimiro Pereira da Rocha de Vasconcelos ,
Manuel José Ribeiro ,
Frei Constantino de Santa Rita ,
João Cabral de Estefique ,
António Maria de Melo ,
Joaquim António de Morais Carneiro ,
António Mariano de Azevedo e
José António de Lemos (limited to Goa from 1836)		 1835-1837
governor Bernardo Peres da Silva 2nd term , (government only over Damão and Diu ; the government in Goa led a provisional council) 1836-1837
governor Simão Infante de Lacerda de Sousa Tavares
(Baron of Sabroso) (Restoration of the unity of the Estado da Índia )		 1837-1839
governor José António Vieira da Fonseca 1839
governor Manuel José Mendes
(Baron de Candal)		 1839-1840
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 José António Vieira da Fonseca ,
José Câncio Freire de Lima ,
António João de Ataíde ,
Domingos José Mariano Luís ,
José da Costa Campos and
Caetano de Sousa e Vasconcelos 		1840
Interim governor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima 1840-1842
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Ramalho de Sá ,
António José de Melo Sotomaior Teles ,
António João de Ataíde ,
José da Costa Campos and
Caetano de Sousa e Vasconcelos 		1842
governor Francisco Xavier da Silva Pereira ,
(Count of Antas)		 1842-1843
governor Joaquim Mourão Garcês Palha 1843-1844
governor José Ferreira Pestana ,
first term 		1844-1851
governor José Joaquim Januário Lapa
(Visconde from Vila Nova de Ourém)		 1851-1855
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 Joaquim de Santa Rita Botelho ,
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India),
Luís da Costa Campos ,
Francisco Xavier Peres ,
Bernardo Heitor da Silva e Lorena and
Vítor Anastácio Mourão Garcês Palha 		1855
governor António César de Vasconcelos Correia ,
(Count of Torres Novas)		 1855-1864
governor José Ferreira Pestana
Second term 		1864-1870
governor Januário Correia de Almeida ,
(Count of São Januário)		 1870-1871
governor Joaquim José Macedo e Couto 1871-1875
governor João Tavares de Almeida 1875-1877
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India),
João Caetano da Silva Campos ,
Francisco Xavier Soares da Veiga and
Eduardo Augusto de Sá Nogueira Pinto Balsemão 		1877
governor Antonio Sérgio de Sousa 1877-1878
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos
(Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India),
João Caetano da Silva Campos ,
Francisco Xavier Soares da Veiga and
António Sérgio de Sousa Júnior 		1878
governor Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque 1878-1882
governor Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva
(Visconde of Paço d'Arcos)		 1882-1886
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
José de Sá Coutinho ,
José Inácio de Brito and
José Maria Teixeira Guimarães 		1886
governor Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral 1886 ( 1 )
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
José de Sá Coutinho ,
José Inácio de Brito and
José Maria Teixeira Guimarães 		1886
governor Augusto César Cardoso de Carvalho 1886-1889
Interim governor Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque 1889
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
Joaquim Borges de Azevedo Enes ,
José Inácio de Brito and
Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque 		1889
governor Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Menezes 1889-1891
governor Francisco Maria da Cunha 1891
Interim governor João Manuel Correia Taborda
First term 		1891-1892
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
Luís Fisher Berquó Falcão ,
Raimundo Maria Correia Mendes and
João Manuel Correia Taborda 		1892
governor Francisco Teixeira da Silva 1892-1893
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 Luís Poças Falcão ,
Raimundo Maria Correia Mendes and
João Manuel Correia Taborda 		1893
governor Rafael Jácome de Andrade
First term 		1893-1894
Interim governor João Manuel Correia Taborda
Second term 		1894
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
Francisco António Ochoa ,
Luís Carneiro de Sousa e Faro and
João Manuel Correia Taborda 		1894
governor Elesbão José de Bettencourt Lapa (Visconde from Vila Nova de Ourém) 1894-1895
governor Rafael Jácome de Andrade
Second term 		1895-1896
Viceroy Prince Afonso Henriques de Bragança ,
(Duke of Porto )		 1896
Interim governor João António de Brissac das Neves Ferreira 1896-1897
Interim governor João Manuel Correia Taborda
3rd term 		1897
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
Francisco António Ochoa ,
João de Melo Sampaio and
João Manuel Correia Taborda 		1897
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
Abel Augusto Correia do Pinto ,
João de Melo Sampaio and
João Manuel Correia Taborda 		1897
governor Joaquim José Morgado 1897-1900
governor Eduardo Augusto Rodrigues Galhardo 1900-1905
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 António Sebastião Valente
(Archbishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East Indies),
Alfredo Mendonça David ,
José Emílio Santana da Cunha Castel-Branco and
Francisco Maria Peixoto Vieira 		1905
governor Arnaldo de Novais Guedes Rebelo 1905-1907
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 Bernardo Nunes Garcia ,
César Augusto Rancon and
Francisco Maria Peixoto Vieira 		1907
governor José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa 1907-1910
Governor General Francisco Manuel Couceiro da Costa 1910-1917
Interim Governor General Francisco Maria Peixoto Vieira
First term 		1917
Conselho de Governo
do Estado da Índia		 Francisco Peixoto de Oliveira e Silva ,
Francisco Wolfgango da Silva and
Francisco Maria Peixoto Vieira 		1917
Governor General José de Freitas Ribeiro 1917-1919
Interim Governor General Augusto de Paiva Bobela da Mota 1919-1920
Governor General Jaime Alberto de Castro Morais 1920-1925
Interim Governor General Francisco Maria Peixoto Vieira
Second term 		1925
Governor General Mariano Martins 1925-1926
Interim Governor General Tito de Morais 1926
Interim Governor General Acúrcio Mendes da Rocha Dinis 1926-1927
Governor General Francisco Massano de Amorim 1927-1929
Interim Governor General Acúrcio Mendes da Rocha Dinis 1929
Governor General Alfredo Pedro de Almeida 1929-1930
Governor General João Carlos Craveiro Lopes 1930-1936
Interim Governor General Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes 1936-1938
Governor General José Ricardo Pereira Cabral 1938-1945
Interim Governor General Paulo Bernard Guedes 1945-1946
Governor General José Silvestre Ferreira Bossa 1946-1947
Interim Governor General José Alves Ferreira 1947-1948
Governor General Fernando Quintanilha e Mendonça Dias 1948-1952
Governor General Paulo Bernard Guedes 1952-1958
Governor General Manuel António Vassalo e Silva 1958-1961

( 1 ) - Never assumed the office of governor, but was made viceroy nonetheless.

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