List of all the Governors of the Reserve Bank of India (1935-2021)
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S.N. |
Governor Name |
Tenure |
1. |
Sir Osborne Smith |
April 1, 1935 to June 30, 1937 |
2. |
Sir James Braid Taylor |
July 1, 1937 to February 17, 1943 |
3. |
Sir C. D. Deshmukh |
August 11, 1943 to June 30, 1949 |
4. |
Sir Benegal Rama Rau |
July 1, 1949 to 14 January 1957 |
5. |
K. G. Ambegaonkar | January 14, 1957 to 28 February 1957 |
6. |
H. V. R. Iyengar |
March 1, 1957 to February 28, 1962 |
7. |
P. C. Bhattacharya |
March 1, 1962 to June 30, 1967 |
8. |
L. K. Jha |
July 1, 1967 to May 3, 1970 |
9. |
B. N. Adarkar |
May 4, 1970 to June 15, 1970 |
10. |
S. Jagannathan |
June 16, 1970 to May 19, 1975 |
11. |
N. C. Sen Gupta |
May 19, 1975 to August 19, 1975 |
12. |
K. R. Puri |
August 20, 1975 to May 2, 1977 |
13. |
M. Narasimhan |
May 3, 1977 to November 30, 1977 |
14. |
I.G. Patel |
December 1, 1977, to September 15, 1982 |
15. |
Manmohan Singh |
September 16, 1982 to January 14, 1985 |
16. |
Amitav Ghosh |
January 15, 1985, to February 4, 1985 |
17. |
R. N. Malhotra |
February 4, 1985, to December 22, 1990 |
18. |
S. Venkatraman |
December 22, 1990 to December 21, 1992 |
19. |
C. Rangarajan |
December 22, 1992, to November 21, 1997 |
20. |
Bimal Jalan |
November 22, 1997 to September 6, 2003 |
21. |
Y. V. Reddy |
September 6, 2003, to September 5, 2008 |
22. |
D. Subbarao |
September 5, 2008, to September 4, 2013 |
23. |
September 4, 2013, to September 4, 2016 |
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24. |
Urjit Patel |
September 4, 2016, to December 11, 2018 |
25 | Shashikanta Das | December 12, 2018, to October 2021 |
26. | Shashikanta Das | October 2021 to Present |