This is a list of knights commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India from 1867 until 1947, when the order ceased to be awarded. It was the second highest class of the Order of the Star of India, following on from the highest class of Knight Grand Commander. Recipients used the post-nominal initials "KCSI" and prefixed "sir" to their forenames. Wives of knights commanders could prefix "lady" to their surnames. Such forms were not used by peers and Indian princes, except when the names of the former were written out in their fullest forms.
1860s 1867 Daniel Eliott, Madras Civil Service (Retired), late Member of the Law Commission, of the Legislative Council of India, and of the Council of the Governor of Madras George Frederick Harvey, Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Commissioner of Agra Major-General William Hill, late Madras Army, Commanding the Nizam's Contingent during the mutinies of 1857-1858 Major-General Vincent Eyre, , Royal (late Bengal) Artillery The Rajah Jodhbir Chund of Nadown Henry Lacon Anderson, Bombay Civil Service (Retired), late Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations Richard Temple, , Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Hyderabad Colonel Arthur Purves Phayre, , Bengal Staff Corps, Chief Commissioner in British Burmah
1869 His Highness the Rajah of Cochin Lieutenant-General John Campbell, , Madras Army Major-General George Le Grand Jacob, , late Bombay Army
1870s 1870 His Highness Prince Gholam Mahomed William Grey, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
1871 The Nawab Mohsin-ood-Dowlah Bahadoor of Oude His Highness Mohubut Khan, Nawab of Joonaghur Major-General George Inglis Jameson, Bombay Army, late President of the Military Finance Commission for India, Auditor of the Accounts of the Department of the Secretary of State for India in Council John William Kaye, formerly of the Bengal Artillery, now Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the Office of the Secretary of State for India in Council Henry Sumner Maine, late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
1872 John Strachey, Bengal Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India John Cracroft Wilson Bengal Civi Service (Retired), late Civil and Sessions Judge at Moradabad, and Special Commissioner for the Trial of Rebels and Mutineers in 1857-58
1873 Nawab Khan Bahadoor Khwajah Muhammad Khan Khuttuk, of Kohat George Campbell, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal Alexander John Arbuthnot , Madras Civil Service, late Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras Major-General Harry Burnett Lumsden Bengal Staff Corps, late Envoy to Candahar
1874 Robert Henry Davies , Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab Colonel Richard John Meade , Bengal Staff Corps, Chief Commissioner of Mysore and Coorg Colonel Lewis Pelly , Bombay Staff Corps, Agent to the Governor-General for the States of Rajpootana, and late Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Maharaja Chandrakirti Singh, King Of The Ningthouja Dynasty and kingdom of Manipur
1877 Joseph Dalton Hooker Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew Thomas Lawrence Seccombe Financial Secretary to the Secretary of State for India in Council
1878 The Honourable Ashley Eden , Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal Stuart Colvin Bayley , Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Judicial and Political Departments
1880s 1881 General Orfeur Cavenagh, Bengal Staff Corps Charles Umpherston Aitchison, , Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner British Burmah His Highness Tukht Singh, Thakur Saheb of Bhavnagur James Davidson Gordon, , Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Mysore John Forsyth, Inspector-General of Hospitals (Retired), Bengal Medical Service Lepel Henry Griffin , Bengal Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India
1882 The Maharajah Jotendro Mohun Tagore Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, , Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, late Resident at Kandahar
1885 Colonel Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, , Madras Staff Corps, Agent to the Governor-General
1886 Theodore Cracraft Hope, Esq., CSI, CIE, Bombay Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Charles Edward Bernard, Esq., CSI, Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of Burmah Nawab Khwaja Abdul Ghani Meeah, of Dacca, CSI William Chichele Plowden, Esq., Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Census Commissioner for India
1888 James Broadwood Lyall, Bengal Civil Service, Lt.-Governor of the Punjab Charles Hawkes Todd Crosthwaite, , Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Burmah
1889 Colonel Henry Yule, , Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India
1890s 1890 Andrew Richard Scoble, , Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Dennis Fitzpatrick, , Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Hyderabad
1891 Philip Perceval Hutchins, , Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., CSI, Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of Burma
1892 Sir Auckland Colvin, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh Henry Edward Stokes, , Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras His Excellency Maharaja Bir Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal Maharaja Mana Vikrama Bahadur Zamorin of Calicut
1893 Anthony Patrick MacDonnell, , Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces Kumarapuram Sheshadri Aiyar, , Dewan of Mysore
1894 Major General Oliver Richardson Newmarch, , Military Secretary at the India Office Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, , Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department
1895 Lieutenant-General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, James Westland, Esq, CSI, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Frederick William Richards Fryer, Esq, CSI, Officiating Financial Commissioner, Punjab His Highness Maharao Kesri Singh of Sirohi Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, Esq, CSI, CIE
1896 William Erskine Ward, , Chief Commissioner of Assam Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Swaine Lethbridge, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Brackenbury, , Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Mansinghji Sarsinghji Thakore Saheb of Palitana
1897 John Woodburn, Esq., CSI, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India His Highness Maharao Raja Raghubir Singh Bahadur, Chief of Bundi Sir Edward Charles Buck, CSI, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Agriculture William Mackworth Young CSI, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab Sri Raja Rama Varma of Cochin Charles James Lyall CSI CIE, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces Robert Joseph Crosthwaite CSI, Agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana William John Cuningham CSI, Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department Major-General Montagu Gilbert Gerard CB CSI, Indian Staff Corps His Highness Raja Sir Tassaduq Rasul Khan, , of Jahangirabad Raj, United Provinces, Oudh Raja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala Richard Udny CSI, Indian Civil Service Colonel Howard Melliss CSI, Inspector-General of Imperial Service Troops
1898 William Lee-Warner, Esq., CSI, Political Secretary, India Office Trevor John Chichele Chichele-Plowden, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service His Highness Maharaja Lokindra Bhawani Singh Bahadur of Datia Arthur Charles Trevor, CSI, Indian Civil Service John Frederick Price, Esq, CSI, Indian Civil Service
1899 His Highness Rasul Khanji Mahabat Khanji, Nawab of Junagarh Charles Cecil Stevens, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service
1900s 1901 James John Digges La Touche, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service His Highness Raja Surindar Bikram Prakash Bahadur, of Sirmur Sultan Ahmed bin Fadthl, of Lahej Charles Montgomery Rivaz, Esq., CSI, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor General of India
1902 Lieutenant-Colonel David William Keith Barr, CSI, Indian Staff Corps, resident at Hyderabad Henry John Stedman Cotton, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of Assam Amaravati Seshayya Sastri, CSI, of Madras
1903 Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Rear-Admiral Charles Carter Drury, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Naval Forces in the East Indies Henry Martin Winterbotham, Esq, CSI, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George James Monteath, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Robertson, CSI, Indian Staff Corps, Resident in Mysore, and Chief Commissioner of Coorg Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department Surgeon-General William Roe Hooper, CSI, Indian Medical Service (retired), President of the Medical Board at the India Office Colonel Sir Colin Campbell Scott Moncrieff, KCMG, CSI, Royal Engineers (retired), President of the Indian Irrigation Commission His Highness Raja Kirti Sah, of Tehri, Garhwal, CSI Kunwar Ranbir Singh, of Patiala
1904 Arundel Tagg Arundel, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General James Austin Bourdillon, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Resident in Mysore and Chief Commissioner of Coorg, lately Acting Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
1907 Thomas William Holderness, Esquire, CSI, Indian Civil Service (retired), Secretary in the Revenue and Statistics Department of the India Office Lancelot Hare, Esquire, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Eastern Bengal and Assam
1908 Charles Stuart Bayley, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Lieutenant-Governor, Eastern Bengal and Assam Edward Norman Baker, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Maharaja Dhiraj Sardar Singh Bahadur, of Jodhpur His Highness Raj Rana Bhavvaui Singh, of Jhalawar
1909 John William Pitt Muir-Mackenzie, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay Nawab Bahadur Khwaia Salimulla, CSI, of Dacca, an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations James Wilson, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Punjab, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations His Highness Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, Bahadur, of Alwar Henry Erle Richards, Esq., KC, Barrister-at-law, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General Gabriel Stokes, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service (retired), lately an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George His Highness Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh-ul-Itikad Daulat-i-Inglishia Raja-i-Rajagan Raja Ranbir Singh, Bahadur of Jind His Highness Maharana Shri Ajitsinghji Jaswatsinghjii, Raj Sahib of Dhrangadhra George Stuart Forbes, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George Captain His Highness Raja Sajjan Singh of Ratlam
1910s 1910 Sir James Lyle Mackay, GCMG, KCIE, a Member of the Council of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India Sir Harvey Adamson, CSI, Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Lieutenant-General Sir Beauchamp Duff, KCB, KCVO, CIE, Indian Army, Secretary in the Military Department, India Office