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Economy · 26 entries

Governors of the Reserve Bank of India

Every governor since the central bank opened in 1935.

#GovernorFromTo
1Osborne Smith19351937
2James Braid Taylor19371943
3C. D. Deshmukh19431949
4Benegal Rama Rau19491957
5K. G. Ambegaonkar19571957
6H. V. R. Iengar19571962
7P. C. Bhattacharya19621967
8L. K. Jha19671970
9B. N. Adarkar19701970
10S. Jagannathan19701975
11N. C. Sen Gupta19751975
12K. R. Puri19751977
13M. Narasimham19771977
14I. G. Patel19771982
15Manmohan Singh19821985
16Amitav Ghosh19851985
17R. N. Malhotra19851990
18S. Venkitaramanan19901992
19C. Rangarajan19921997
20Bimal Jalan19972003
21Y. V. Reddy20032008
22D. Subbarao20082013
23Raghuram Rajan20132016
24Urjit Patel20162018
25Shaktikanta Das20182024
26Sanjay Malhotra2024In office

Years of taking and leaving office. Several governors served for only a few weeks or months.

Sources

  1. Reserve Bank of India — Governors
  2. Wikipedia — List of governors of the Reserve Bank of India

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