List of knights grand commander of the Order of the Star of India

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.

1860s

1861-1866: See list of knights companion of the Order of the Star of India

1867

His Highness Maharajadhiraja Shri Sir Jawansinhji Gambhirsinhji Sahib Bahadur, Maharaja of Idar^[1]

1869

His Highness Bhagwant Singh, Maharaj Rana of Dholpur^[2]

1870s

1870

His Highness Mahendra Singh, Maharaja of Patiala^[3]
The Nawab Salar Jung Bahadoor, Minister of the Hyderabad State[4]

1880s

1881

His Highness Sujjun Singh, Maharana of Udaipur^[13]

1882

His Highness Visakham Thirunal, Maharajah of Travancore^[14]
His Highness Nawab Ikbal-ud-dowlah of Oudh (Baghdad)^[15]

1884

His Highness Chama Rajendra Wadeir, Maharajah of Mysore^[16]

1888

His Highness Moolam Thirunal, Maharajah of Travancore.^[17]

1890s

1892

Colonel His Highness Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir.^[18]

1893

General Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts of Kandahar^[19]

1895

His Highness Madho Rao, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior^[20]
The Right Honourable George Robert Canning, Baron Harris^[21]
His Highness Rajarshi Shahu, Maharaj of Kolhapur^[22]
The Right Honourable Henry Hartley Fowler^[23]

1896

(Extra) The Right Honourable Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock^[24]

1897

His Highness Vyankatesh Raman Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewa.^[25]
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker^[26]
Maharaja Sir Bir Bhamsber Jang Rana Bahadur^[27]
Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell^[28]
His Highness Lieutenant Colonel Sir Partab Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Idar^[29]
Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey^[30]

1898

His Highness Rajinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala.^[31]

1900s

1900

His Highness Maharao Umed Singh Bahadur, of Kotah.^[32]

1903

The Right Honourable George Francis Hamilton^[33]
His Highness Sir Shri Rama Varma, Rajarshi of Cochin^[34]
Colonel His Highness Priyadarsi Devanampriya Maharaj-Adhiraj Maharaja Rudra Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Singrauli^[35]

1905

His Excellency Maharaja Chandra Shamsher Jang, Rana Bahadur, Prime Minister of Nepal.^[36]

1906

His Highness Pratap Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Ju Deo of Orchha^[37]

1907

His Highness Sri Krishnaraja Wadiar Bahadur, Maharaja of Mysore.^[38]

1909

His Highness Sir Rasul Khanji Mahabbat Khanji, Nawab of Junagarh.^[39]
His Excellency General The Right Honourable Horatio Herbert, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum^[40]

1910s

1910

Her Highness Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam, Begum of Bhopal^[41]
His Highness Sir Sardar Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jodhpur^[42]

1911

Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley^[43]
Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick^[44]
Sir William Lee-Warner^[45]
General Sir Dighton MacNaghten Probyn^[46]
His Excellency Sir George Sydenham Clarke^[47]
The Right Honourable Sir Arthur Lawley^[48]
Sir John Prescott Hewett^[49]
Colonel His Highness Sri Sir Gunga Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Bikaner^[50]
His Highness Major Sir Umed Singh Bahadur, Maharao of Kotah^[51]
His Excellency General Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh^[52]
His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Raish-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglisbia Raja-i-Rajagan Raja Sir Jagatjit Singh, Bahadur Ahluwalia of Kapurthala.^[53]
His Highness Asafjah Muzaffer-ul-Mulk-Maamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula Nawab Mir Usman Ali Khan, Bahadur Fateh Jang, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad.
His Highness Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan^[54]

1912

His Highness Amin-ud-Daula Wazir-ul-Mulk Nawab Sir Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan, Bahadur, Saulat Jang of Tonk^[55]

1916

His Excellency General Sir Beauchamp Duff^[56]

1917

His Highness Maharao Raja Sawai Sir Khengarji Bahadur Rao of Cutch.^[57]

1918

His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Baron Pentland^[58]
His Excellency Sir Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Baron Willingdon^[59]

1919

His Excellency General Sir Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet^[60]
His Highness Sir Raghubir Singh Bahadur, Maharao of Bundi^[61]
George Carmichael^[62]
Michael Ernest Sadler^[63]

1920s

1921

Colonel His Highness Alhijah Farzand-i-Dilpazir-i-Daulat-i-Inglisihia, Mukhlis-ud-Daula Nasir-ul-Mulk Amir-ul-Umra Nawab Sir Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur^[64]
Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Sir Prabhu Narayan Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Benares.^[65]
Major-General His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulet-i-Inglishia Mansur-i-Zaman Amar-ul-Umra Maharajadhiraja Rajeshwar Sri Maharaja-i-Rajagan Sir Bhupindar Singh Mahindar Bahadur, Maharaja of Patiala.^[66]

1923

His Highness Lieutenant-Colonel Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib^[67]

1924

Colonel His Highness Sewai Maharaj Shri Jey Singh, Maharaja of Alwar^[68]
James Lyle, Viscount Inchcape^[69]
General Henry Seymour, Baron Rawlinson of Trent^[70]

1925

The Right Honourable Victor Alexander George Robert, Earl of Lytton^[71]
The Right Honourable Arthur Hamilton, Viscount Lee of Fareham^[72]

1928

Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler^[73]

1929

Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel, George Joachim, Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst^[74]
Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Sir Leslie Orme Wilson^[75]

1930s

1930

The Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon^[76]
Field-Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob^[77]
Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood^[78]

1931

His Highness Sir Bhupal Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Udaipur^[79]
Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Rajaram Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur^[80]
Major-General His Highness Projjwal-Nepal Tara-Dhish Sri Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Bhim Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana.^[81]

1932

Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Iftikhar-ul-Mulk Sikandar Saulat Haji Sir Muhammad Hamidullah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Bhopal.^[82]
Sir William Malcolm Hailey^[83]
The Right Honourable William Robert Wellesley, Earl Peel^[84]

1933

Colonel His Highness Sir Hari Singh Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir.

1934

Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir George Frederick Stanley^[85]
Field-Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode^[86]
Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare^[87]

1935

Lieutenant-General His Highness Ojaswi Rajanya Projjwala Nepala Tara Ati Pravala Gorkha Dakshina Bahu Prithuladheesha Sri Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana^[88]

1936

Lieutenant-Colonel Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jodhpur^[89]

1937

His Highness Maharaja Shri Sir Bhagwatsinhji Sagramji, Maharaja of Gondal^[90]
Ranbir Singh, the Maharaja of Jind^[91]

1940s

1940

General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels^[92]

1941

Major His Highness Rukn-ud-Daula Nusrat-i-Jang, Saif-ud-Daula Hafiz-ul-Mulk Mukhlis-ud-Daula wa Muin-ud-Daula Nawab al Haj Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Nawab of Bahawalpur.

1946

Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Mukhtar-ul-Mulk, Asim-ul-Iqtidar, Rafi-ush-Shan, Wala Shikoh Mohta-Sham-i-Dauran, Umdat-ul-Umra, Maharajadhi-Raja Alijah Hisam-us-Sultanat, Sir George Jivaji Rao, Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior.^[93]
Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Sri Padmanabha Dasa Vanchi Pala Sir Bala Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore^[94]

1947

Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Digvijaysinhji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar.^[95]

1948

His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye^[96]
His Excellency Sir Frederick John Burrows^[97]
Major His Highness Maharaja Sir Shahaji Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur.^[98]
Lieutenant-General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajaha-i-Hindustan Raj Rajindra Sri Maharajadhiraja Sawar Sir Man Singhji, Maharaja of Jaipur.^[99]
Lieutenant-General His Highness Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Shiromani Shri Sir Sadul Singhji Bahadur, Maharajah of Bikaner^[100]

Honorary Knights Grand Commander

1868: Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt^[101]
1870: Ferdinand de Lesseps^[102]
1873: Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh, Grand Vizier of Persia^[103]
1875: Tewfik Pasha of Egypt^[104]
1878: Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt,^[105] Saffet Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire^[106]
1879: Khudadad Khan, Khan of Kalat^[107]
1885: Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan^[108]
1887: Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, Governor-General of Isfahan, Arabistan, Kurdistan, Yazd, etc.^[109]
1890: Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar^[110]
1894: Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar^[111]
1896: Nubar Pasha^[112]
1909: Prince Auguste Louis Alberic d'Arenberg, President of the Suez Canal Company^[113]
1935: Maharaja Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal^[114]
1945: Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Commander-in-Chief, Nepalese Army^[115]

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