As Shaktikanta Das finishes up his tenure as India’s central bank governor, handing over the reins to a career bureaucrat, many have praised his performance as a relative outsider who leaned on diplomacy to propel the world’s fastest-growing major economy to new heights.

Sanjay Malhotra, a career civil servant, became India's new central bank governor on Wednesday as the country's economic growth slows and inflation is rising. The Reserve Bank of India said Malhotra,

Sanjay Malhotra, a career civil servant who has mostly kept a low profile, was picked as India's new central bank governor replacing Shaktikanta Das after a six-year stint.