This is a list of presidents of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta).
18th century
Sir William Jones (1784–1794) Sir John Shore (1794–1799) Robert Chambers (1799) Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet (1799–1807)
19th century
Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1807–?1815) Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1820–1825) John Herbert Harington (1825–1828) Charles Edward Grey (1828–1832) Sir Edward Ryan (1832–1841) Henry Thoby Prinsep (1842–1844) William Wilberforce Bird (1844–1845) Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1845) William Wilberforce Bird (1846–1848) James William Colvile (1848–1859) Arthur Grote (1859–62) Lt. Col. H. E. L. Thuillier (1863) William Stephen Atkinson (1863) Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1863–1867) Dr. Joseph Fayrer (1867–68) Dr. Thomas Oldham (1868–1870) Hon John Budd Phear (1870–1872) Dr. Thomas Oldham (1873) Lt. Col. H. Hyde (1873–1874) Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1875) Dr. Thomas Oldham (1875–1877) Sir Edward Clive Bayley (1877–1878) William Thomas Blanford (1878–1879) Henry Benedict Medlicott (1879–1881) Sir Ashley Eden (1881–1882) Herbert John Reynoldss:Page:The Indian Biographical Dictionary.djvu/399 (1882–1884) Henry Francis Blanford (1884–1885) Dr. Rajendralal Mitra (1885) Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson (1886–1887) James Waterhouse (1888–1890) Henry Beveridge (1890–1891) Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1891–1892) Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (1893–1894) Charles James Lyall (1894–1895) Alexander Pedler (1895–1896) Dr. Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernle (1897–1898) Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1898–1900)
20th century
Sir John Woodburn (1900–1901) Charles Walter Bolton (1902–1905) (Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government) Sir A. H. L. Fraser (1905–1907) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (3 times) (1907–1908) Sir Thomas Henry Holland (1909–1910) Thomas Henry Digges La Touche (1910–1911) (Geologist, born 1855) George Francis Angelo Harris (1911–1912) Thomas David, Baron Carmichael (1913–1915) Sir Leonard Rogers (1915–1916) Henry Hubert Hayden (1917–1918) Haraprasad Shastri (1919–1920) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (1921–1923) Nelson Annandale (1923–1924) Sir Rajendranath Mookherjee (1924–1925) George H. Tipper (1926–1927) (Superintendent of the Geological Survey in India) Dr. W. A. K. Christie (1927–1928) (Indian Geological Survey) Dr. Upendranath Brahmachari (1928–1929) Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell (1930–1931) Justice C. C. Ghose (1932–1934) Lewis Leigh Fermor (1934–1935) Sir John Anderson (1936–1938) Sir David Ezra (1938–1939) Justice John Lort-Williams (1940–1941) Dr C. S. Fox (1941–1942) (Director of the Geological Survey of India) Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee (1942–1944) Dr Meghnad Saha (1945–1946) Justice Norman George Armstrong Edgley (1946–1947) Dr Bimala Churn Law (1947–1948) Dr D. West (1948) Justice Ramaprasad Mookherjee (1948–1950) Prof Sisir Kumar Mitra (1951–1953) Prof S. K. Chatterji (1953–1955) Dr D. M. Bose (1955–1957) Dr S. N. Sen (1957–1959) Dr Nalinaksha Dutt (1959–1961) Dr A. C. Ukil (1961–1962) Dr U. N. Ghoshal (1963–1964) Dr K. N. Bagchi (1964–1965) Prof R. C. Majumdar (1966–1968) Prof Satyendra Nath Bose (1968–1969) Prof S. K. Chatterji (1970–1971) Prof Nirmal Kumar Bose (1972) M. M. Basu (1972) Dr B. Mukherji (1972–1974) Prof. K. Saraswati (1975–1977) Dr Gouri Nath Sastri (1977–1978) Dr D. Bose (1979–1981) P. C. Gupta (1981–1982) S. N. Sen (1983) Dr R. K. Pal (1983–1985) Dr Sukumar Sen (1985–1987) Dr M. M. Chakraborty (1987–1988) In administration (1988–1992) Dr M M Chakraborty (1992–1996) Prof Dilip Kumar Biswas (1997–1999) Prof Bhaskar Roychowdhury (1999–2001)
21st century
Prof Biswanath Banerji (2001–2002) Prof Amalendu De (2002–2003) Prof Biswanath Banerji (2004–2012) Prof Pallab Sengupta (2012–2014) Prof Ramakanta Chakraborty (2014–2016) Prof Isha Mahammad (2016–2020) Prof Swapan Pramanick (2020–2024)
References and sources References
Sources Official website of The Asiatic Society, Presidents and Secretaries of The Asiatic Society