India's annual consumer price inflation increased to 4.41% in September, compared with 5.63% a year ago, government data showed on Monday.
Economists had forecast consumer inflation to rise 4.3% last month. Retail food inflation for September came in at 3.88%, higher than a provisional 2.20% in August.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) estimates retail inflation to be at 5.8% in January 2016.
Meanwhile, India's industrial output grew a better-than-expected 6.4% in August compared with a downwardly revised 4.1% growth a month ago, government data showed on Monday.
Analysts polled by Reuters were expecting the output to grow 4.8%.
