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 | |
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 |