Former cabinet-level position in British government
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Secretary of State for India
Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
India Office
Member of
British Cabinet Privy Council
Seat
Westminster, London
Appointer
The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length
No fixed term
Constituting instrument
Government of India Act
Precursor
President of the Board of Control
Formation
2 August 1858
First holder
Lord Stanley
Final holder
William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
Abolished
14 August 1947
Deputy
Under-Secretary of State for India
The ceremonial seat of the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and subsequently that of the Secretary of State for IndiaThe 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and again briefly, as acting Secretary, in 1911
His (or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of the British Indian Empire, including Aden, Burma and the Persian Gulf Residency. The post was created in 1858 when the East India Company's rule in Bengal ended and India, except for the Princely States, was brought under the direct administration of the government in Whitehall in London, beginning the official colonial period under the British Empire.
In 1937, the India Office was reorganised which separated Burma and Aden under a new Burma Office, but the same Secretary of State headed both departments and a new title was established as His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India and Burma. The India Office and its Secretary of State were abolished in August 1947, when the United Kingdom granted independence in the Indian Independence Act, which created two new independent dominions, India and Pakistan. Burma soon achieved independence separately in early 1948.
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