शि

GK quizzes

Governors of the Reserve Bank of India and the year their term began: GK quiz

15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: Reserve Bank of India - RBI History: Governors ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026

  1. Question 1 of 15

    In which year did Sir Benegal Rama Rau become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    In which year did L K Jha become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Y V Reddy become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    In which year did A Ghosh become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    In which year did Sir Osborne Smith become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    In which year did Dr. I G Patel become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    In which year did H V R Iengar become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    In which year did N C Sen Gupta become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    In which year did P C Bhattacharya become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Raghuram Rajan become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    In which year did S Jagannathan become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    In which year did R N Malhotra become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    In which year did B N Adarkar become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    In which year did M Narasimham become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    In which year did S Venkitaramanan become Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

The official list (26 rows)

GovernorYear term began
Sir Osborne Smith1935
Sir James Taylor1937
Sir C D Deshmukh1943
Sir Benegal Rama Rau1949
K G Ambegaonkar1957
H V R Iengar1957
P C Bhattacharya1962
L K Jha1967
B N Adarkar1970
S Jagannathan1970
N C Sen Gupta1975
K R Puri1975
M Narasimham1977
Dr. I G Patel1977
Dr. Manmohan Singh1982
A Ghosh1985
R N Malhotra1985
S Venkitaramanan1990
Dr. C Rangarajan1992
Dr. Bimal Jalan1997
Dr. Y V Reddy2003
Dr. D. Subbarao2008
Dr. Raghuram Rajan2013
Dr. Urjit R. Patel2016
Shri Shaktikanta Das2018
Shri Sanjay Malhotra2024

Left out or changed by Shishya: None left out: all 26 Governors listed on the page, including short officiating spells (K G Ambegaonkar 14-01-1957 to 28-02-1957, B N Adarkar, N C Sen Gupta, A Ghosh). Year = first year of the tenure line the page prints (e.g. 'Shri Sanjay Malhotra 11-12-2024 onwards'). Reverse null because start years repeat (1957, 1970, 1975, 1977, 1985). Page shows no as-on date.

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

More GK topics

Current affairs quizzes →