Name of the RBI Governors | Term of Office |
Sir Osborne Smith | 1st April 1935 – 30th June 1937 |
Sir James Braid Taylor | 1st July 1937- 17th February 1943 |
Sir C.D. Deshmukh | 11th August 1943 – 30th June 1949 |
Sir Bengal Rama Rau | 1st July 1949 – 14th January 1957 |
K.G. Ambegaonkar | 14th January 1957 – 28th February 1957 |
H.V.R. Iyenger | 1st March 1957 – 28th February 1962 |
P.C. Bhattacharya | 1st March 1962 – 30th June 1967 |
L.K. Jha | 1st July 1967 – 3rd May 1970 |
B.N. Adarkar | 4th May 1970 – 15th June 1970 |
S. Jagannathan | 16th June 1970 – 19th August 1975 |
N. C. Sen Gupta | 19th May 1975 – 19th August 1975 |
K.R. Puri | 20th August 1975 – 2nd May 1977 |
M. Narasimham | 2nd May 1977 – 30th November 1977 |
Dr. I.G. Patel | 1st December 1977- 15th September 1982 |
Dr. Manmohan Singh | 16th September 1982 – 14th January 1985 |
A. Ghosh | 15th January 1985 – 4th February 1985 |
R.N. Malhotra | 4th February 1985 – 22nd December 1990 |
S.Venkitaramanan | 22nd December 1990 – 21st December 1992 |
Dr. C. Rangarajan | 22nd Decmeber 1992 – 22nd November 1997 |
Dr. BimalJalan | 22nd November 1997 – 5th September 2003 |
Dr. Y.V. Reddy | 6th September 2003 – 5th September 2008 |
Dr. D. Subbaroa | 5th September 2008 – 4th September 2013 |
Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan | 4th September 2013 – 4th September 2016 |
Dr. Urjit R. Patel | 4th September 2016 – 11 December 2018 |
Shaktikanta Das | 12 December 2018 – Incumbent |