MUMBAI, India — India’s economic growth slowed to 5.3 percent in the three months ended in September from a year earlier, government data showed Friday, supporting expectations of a delayed recovery in Asia’s third-largest economy, after China and Japan.

Figures from the Central Statistical Office indicated a significant deceleration from the preceding quarter, when gross domestic product expanded by 5.7 percent. One of the drags on growth in the September quarter was manufacturing output, which increased 0.1 percent, compared with 3.5 percent in the preceding quarter. Also, a delayed monsoon season and uneven rainfall caused agricultural output to slow to a 3.2 percent increase from a year earlier, from a 3.8 percent rise in the previous quarter.

India has experienced a period of economic malaise, with the pace of growth below 5 percent for the past two fiscal years, the lowest since the 1980s. India’s fiscal year begins in April.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide election in May was based largely on his promise to kick-start the economy, in part by increasing the ease of doing business and providing jobs to the young. India’s business community regarded his victory with optimism, and the stock markets reflected the enthusiasm, rising to new highs.