NEW DELHI, Sept. 25 -- Viral V. Acharya, a former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), credited many past governors of the central bank as his inspiration while formally launching his latest book, Quest For Restoring Financial Stability In India (Sage, Rs 695) on a virtual meeting platform in July. But though he took pains to thank C. Rangarajan, Y.V. Reddy, D. Subbarao, Raghuram Rajan and Urjit Patel, there was one notable omission from this roll-call of gratitude: Bimal Jalan, RBI governor from 1997-2003. It is not known if this was deliberate or happenstance, but in many ways the exclusion also seemed to define the mix of emotions, preferences and ideologies that enveloped Mint Street during the tenure of Urjit Patel and V...