RBI GOVERNORS

No.	Name	Term of office
		Began	Ended
1	Osborne Smith	01-Apr-35	30-Jun-37
2	James Braid Taylor	01-Jul-37	17-Feb-43
3	C. D. Deshmukh	11-Aug-43	30-Jun-49
4	Benegal Rama Rau	01-Jul-49	14-Jan-57
5	K. G. Ambegaonkar	14-Jan-57	28-Feb-57
6	H. V. R. Iyengar	01-Mar-57	28-Feb-62
7	P. C. Bhattacharya	01-Mar-62	30-Jun-67
8	L. K. Jha	01-Jul-67	03-May-70
9	B. N. Adarkar	04-May-70	15-Jun-70
10	S. Jagannathan	16-Jun-70	19-May-75
11	N. C. Sen Gupta	19-May-75	19-Aug-75
12	K. R. Puri	20-Aug-75	02-May-77
13	M. Narasimham	03-May-77	30-Nov-77
14	I. G. Patel	01-Dec-77	15-Sep-82
15	Manmohan Singh	16-Sep-82	14-Jan-85
16	Amitav Ghosh	15-Jan-85	04-Feb-85
17	R. N. Malhotra	04-Feb-85	22-Dec-90
18	S. Venkitaramanan	22-Dec-90	21-Dec-92
19	C. Rangarajan	22-Dec-92	21-Nov-97
20	Bimal Jalan	22-Nov-97	06-Sep-03
21	Y. V. Reddy	06-Sep-03	05-Sep-08
22	D. Subbarao	05-Sep-08	04-Sep-13
23	Raghuram Rajan	04-Sep-13	Incumbent