1983 in India
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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1983 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[edit]
- President of India – Zail Singh
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors[edit]
- Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham (until 15 August), Thakur Ram Lal (starting 15 August)
- Assam – Prakash Mehrotra
- Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
- Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee (until 6 August), K.M. Chandy (starting 6 August)
- Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
- Himachal Pradesh – A. K. Banerjee (until 15 April), Hokishe Sema (starting 15 April)
- Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru
- Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
- Kerala – P. Ramachandran
- Madhya Pradesh –
- until 20 September: B. D. Sharma
- 20 September-7 October: G. P. Singh
- starting 7 October: B. D. Sharma
- Maharashtra – Idris Hasan Latif
- Manipur – S. M. H. Burney
- Meghalaya – Prakash Mehrotra
- Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney
- Odisha – Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha (until 17 August), Bishambhar Nath Pande (starting 17 August)
- Punjab –
- until 7 February: Marri Chenna Reddy
- 7 February-21 February: Surjit Singh Sandhawalia
- 21 February-10 October: Anant Prasad Sharma
- starting 10 October: Bhairab Dutt Pande
- Rajasthan – Om Prakash Mehra
- Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
- Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
- Tripura – S. M. H. Burney
- Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
- West Bengal – Bhairab Dutt Pande (until 10 October), Anant Prasad Sharma (starting 10 October)
Events[edit]
- National income - ₹2,250,742 million
- February – Bandit queen Phoolan Devi surrenders.
- 18 February – Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the Assam agitation.
Law[edit]
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Arts and literature[edit]
Sport[edit]
- 25 June – India wins the First Cricket World Cup at Lords under Kapil Dev.
Births[edit]
- 3 February – T.R. Silambarasan, Actor and Filmmaker
- 6 February – Angad Bedi, actor, model and cricketer.
- 6 February – Sreesanth, cricketer.
- 8 April – Allu Arjun, actor.
- 20 May – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
- 16 July – Katrina Kaif, actress
- 27 July – Soccor Velho, footballer (died 2013).
- 14 August – Jennifer Kotwal, actress.
- 31 August – Ira Singhal, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 17 September- Sanaya Irani, actress.
- 23 November – Karan Patel, actor.
- 30 November – Nisha Kothari, actress.
Deaths[edit]
- 11 June – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (born 1894).
- Undated
- Fatima Begum, actress and India's first female film director (born 1892).
- V. Ishwaraiah, pharmacology professor (born 1898).