Lists of finance ministers
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party (Alliance) |
Prime Minister | |||
| Liaquat Ali Khan | 29 October 1946 | 14 August 1947 | All-India Muslim League | Jawaharlal Nehru (Vice President of theinterim govt) |
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| R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | 15 August 1947 | 1949 | Indian National Congress | Jawaharlal Nehru | |||
| John Mathai | 1949 | 1950 | |||||
| C. D. Deshmukh | 29 May 1950 | 1957 | |||||
| T. T. Krishnamachari | 1957 | 13 February 1958 | |||||
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 13 February 1958 | 13 March 1958 | |||||
| Morarji Desai | 13 March 1958 | 29 August 1963 | |||||
| T. T. Krishnamachari | 29 August 1963 | 1965 | Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri |
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| Sachindra Chaudhuri | 1965 | 13 March 1967 | Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi |
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| Morarji Desai | 13 March 1967 | 16 July 1969 | Indira Gandhi | ||||
| Indira Gandhi | 1970 | 1971 | |||||
| Yashwantrao Chavan | 1971 | 1975 | |||||
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | 1975 | 1977 | |||||
| Haribhai M. Patel | 24 March 1977 | 24 January 1979 | Janata Party | Morarji Desai | |||
| Charan Singh | 24 January 1979 | 28 July 1979 | |||||
| Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna | 28 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | |||
| R. Venkataraman | 14 January 1980 | 15 January 1982 | Indian National Congress | Indira Gandhi | |||
| Pranab Mukherjee | 15 January 1982 | 31 December 1984 | |||||
| V. P. Singh | 31 December 1984 | 24 January 1987 | Rajiv Gandhi | ||||
| Rajiv Gandhi | 24 January 1987 | 25 July 1987 | |||||
| N. D. Tiwari | 25 July 1987 | 25 June 1988 | |||||
| Shankarrao Chavan | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | |||||
| Madhu Dandavate | 2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | Janata Dal (National Front) |
V. P. Singh | |||
| Yashwant Sinha | 10 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | Samajwadi Janata Party (National Front) |
Chandra Shekhar | |||
| Manmohan Singh | 21 June 1991 | 16 May 1996 | Indian National Congress | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |||
| Jaswant Singh | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | Bharatiya Janata Party | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||
| P. Chidambaram | 1 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | Tamil Maanila Congress (United Front) |
H. D. Deve Gowda | |||
| I.K. Gujral | 21 April 1997 | 1 May 1997 | Janata Dal (United Front) |
I. K. Gujral | |||
| P. Chidambaram | 1 May 1997 | 19 March 1998 | Tamil Maanila Congress (United Front) |
I. K. Gujral | |||
| Yashwant Sinha | 19 March 1998 | 1 July 2002 | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |||
| Jaswant Singh | 1 July 2002 | 22 May 2004 | |||||
| P. Chidambaram | 22 May 2004 | 30 November 2008 | Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance) |
Manmohan Singh | |||
| Manmohan Singh | 30 November 2008 | 24 January 2009 | |||||
| Pranab Mukherjee | 24 January 2009 | 26 June 2012 | |||||
| Manmohan Singh | 26 June 2012 | 31 July 2012 | |||||
| P. Chidambaram | 31 July 2012 | 26 May 2014 | |||||
| Arun Jaitley | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance) |
Narendra Modi | |||