No. Name Term of office Began Ended Length Osborne Smith 1 April 1935 30 June 1937 7002821000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 90 days James Braid Taylor, ICS 1 July 1937 17 February 1943 7003205700000000000 ♠ 5 years, 231 days C.D. Deshmukh, ICS 11 August 1943 30 June 1949 7003215000000000000 ♠ 5 years, 323 days Benegal Rama Rau, ICS 1 July 1949 14 January 1957 7003275400000000000 ♠ 7 years, 197 days K.G. Ambegaonkar, ICS 14 January 1957 28 February 1957 7001450000000000000 ♠ 45 days 6 H.V.R. Iyengar, ICS 1 March 1957 28 February 1962 7003182500000000000 ♠ 4 years, 364 days 7 P.C. Bhattacharya 1 March 1962 30 June 1967 7003194700000000000 ♠ 5 years, 121 days 8 L.K. Jha 1 July 1967 3 May 1970 7003103700000000000 ♠ 2 years, 306 days 9 B.N. Adarkar 4 May 1970 15 June 1970 7001420000000000000 ♠ 42 days 10 S. Jagannathan 16 June 1970 19 May 1975 7003179800000000000 ♠ 4 years, 337 days 11 N.C. Sen Gupta 19 May 1975 19 August 1975 7001920000000000000 ♠ 92 days 12 K.R. Puri 20 August 1975 2 May 1977 7002621000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 255 days 13 M. Narasimham 3 May 1977 30 November 1977 7002211000000000000 ♠ 211 days 14 I.G. Patel 1 December 1977 15 September 1982 7003174900000000000 ♠ 4 years, 288 days 15 Manmohan Singh 16 September 1982 14 January 1985 7002851000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 120 days 16 Amitav Ghosh 15 January 1985 4 February 1985 7001200000000000000 ♠ 20 days 17 R.N. Malhotra, IAS 4 February 1985 22 December 1990 7003214700000000000 ♠ 5 years, 321 days 18 S. Venkitaramanan, IAS 22 December 1990 21 December 1992 7002730000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 365 days 19 C. Rangarajan 22 December 1992 21 November 1997 7003179500000000000 ♠ 4 years, 334 days 20 Bimal Jalan 22 November 1997 6 September 2003 7003211400000000000 ♠ 5 years, 288 days 21 Y.V. Reddy, IAS 6 September 2003 5 September 2008 7003182600000000000 ♠ 4 years, 365 days 22 D. Subbarao, IAS 5 September 2008 4 September 2013 7003182500000000000 ♠ 4 years, 364 days 23 Raghuram Rajan 4 September 2013 4 September 2016 7003109600000000000 ♠ 3 years, 0 days 24 Urjit Patel 4 September 2016 Incumbent 7002400000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 35 days
who become the 24th governor of the reserve bank of india in 2016
Urjit Patel