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The biggest thing Mr Gurumurthy is thought to have helped get done is demonetisation in 2016,
普遍認為古穆綏幫助做成的最大一件事就是2016年的貨幣廢止，
when 86% of bank notes by value were abruptly withdrawn from circulation in an attempt to crack down on undeclared "black money".
當時86%的銀行紙幣突然停止流通，力圖以此打擊未經申報的“黑錢”。
This, he argues, prevented an economic collapse (most Indian economists reckon it almost caused one).
他爭辯稱這樣做阻止了一場經濟崩潰（大部分印度經濟學家認為這幾乎引發了一次經濟崩潰）。
He is also thought to be behind a scheme to expand lending to small businesses, and a rejigging of the government's economic-planning department.
人們還認為向小型企業擴貸以及重新調整政府經濟計劃部門都和他有關。
Mr Gurumurthy believes, as he put it in a speech last year,
如他在去年的演講上所述，他認為
that the "the subject of economics is collapsing" and should be replaced by an Indian economics based on Swadeshi (self-reliance).
“經濟學的主體正在崩塌”，并且應該用以自給自足為基礎的印度經濟學進代替它。
Foreign capital should be kept out; the government should manage finance directly and small businesses should be prioritised over big ones.
外國資本應該被拒之門外；政府應該直接管理金融，小型企業應該優先于大型企業。
Western-educated economists who disagree need a "correction" of the mind.
有異議的那些接受西方教育的經濟學家需要“更正”他們的想法。
Since joining the RBI board Mr Gurumurthy has turned its monthly meetings into day-long slogs,
自加入RBI董事會以來，古穆綏就將RBI的每月例會變成了整日的埋頭苦干，
as he puts forward these ideas, seemingly with the backing of the government.
他提出這些想法似乎得到了政府的支持。
"His being on the board is not merely some symbolic thing," says Vivek Dehejia of IDFC Institute, a think-tank.
“他加入董事會并不僅僅是象征性的，”智囊團IDFC研究所的Vivek Dehejia說道。
His appointment was followed in October by the squeezing out of Nachiket Mor, an American-educated economist who had been attacked by the RSS.
在對他進行任命前的10月，一名美國畢業的經濟學家Nachiket Mor遭到排擠，他一直是RSS的攻擊目標。
Weeks later Viral Acharya, one of the bank's four deputy governors, warned that the government was undermining the bank's independence.
幾周后，銀行四大副行長之一Viral Acharya警告稱政府正在破壞銀行的獨立性。
A paragraph-long statement after the latest board meeting, on November 19th,
11月19日，在近期一次董事會后，一份小篇幅的聲明寫到，
said that the bank would direct more money to small businesses but fudged the biggest question: whether it would hand more cash to the central government.
銀行將為小型企業提供更多資金，而對最大的一個問題避而不談：銀行是否會上交更多現金給中央政府。
With an election approaching, few think that fight is over. If the government wins, more demands are likely to follow. And one man is sure to be at the front making them.
選舉將近，幾乎沒人認為戰爭結束了。如果政府獲勝，那么接下來會有更多的要求。一定會有一個人在前邊提出要求。
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