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	*14 September – [[Pragathi Guruprasad]], singer		*14 September – [[Pragathi Guruprasad]], singer
	*~~[[File:Pantintestmatch.jpg\|thumb\|119x119px\|[[Rishabh Pant]]]]~~4 October – [[Rishabh Pant]], cricketer		*4 October – [[Rishabh Pant]], cricketer
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	*11 November – [[Mayank Markande]], cricketer		*11 November – [[Mayank Markande]], cricketer
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	*9 December – [[K. Shivaram Karanth]], writer, social activist, environmentalist, [[Yakshagana]] artist, movie maker and [[Intellectual\|thinker]] (b. 1902).		*9 December – [[K. Shivaram Karanth]], writer, social activist, environmentalist, [[Yakshagana]] artist, movie maker and [[Intellectual\|thinker]] (b. 1902).
	*[[Anup Kumar (actor)\|Anup Kumar]], actor (b. 1932).		*[[Anup Kumar (actor)\|Anup Kumar]], actor (b. 1932).
	*23 June – [[Acharya Tulsi (Jain ~~Monk~~)\|Acharya Tulsi]], 9th Acharya of the Shwetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism (b. 1914)		*23 June – [[Acharya Tulsi (Jain monk)\|Acharya Tulsi]], 9th Acharya of the Shwetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism (b. 1914)
			*[[Palani Baba (Politician )\|Palani Baba]], politician.

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{{Year in India|1997}}
Events in the year '''1997 in the Republic of India'''.

==Incumbents==
* [[President of India]] – [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]] until 25 July, [[K. R. Narayanan]]
* [[Prime minister of India]] – [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] until 21 April, [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – [[Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi]] until 24 March, [[Jagdish Sharan Verma]]

===Governors===
* [[List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh|Arunachal Pradesh]] – [[Mata Prasad]]
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] –
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] –
* [[List of governors of Goa|Goa]] –
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] –
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] –
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] –
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] –
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] –
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] –
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] –
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] –
* [[List of governors of Mizoram|Mizoram]] –
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] –
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] –
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] –
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] –
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] –
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] –
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] –
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] –
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] –

==Events==

===January–June===
*7 February – An alliance of [[Sikh]] and [[Hindu]] nationalist parties wins a resounding victory over the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in state assembly elections in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].
*28 February – The government is strengthened by a daring, market friendly budget.
*13 March – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses [[Sister Nirmala]] to succeed [[Mother Teresa]] as its leader.
*19 March – The [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] (BSP), a powerful party, deserts its alliance with Congress in [[Uttar Pradesh]] to form a government with the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP).
*30 March – Congress withdraws support from the United Front, accusing Prime Minister [[H.D. Deve Gowda]] of poor leadership.
*21 April – [[Inder Kumar Gujral]], a new leader acceptable to Congress, is sworn in as prime minister.
*21 April – [[1997 Raghopur massacre]]
*22 May – The 5.8 {{M|w}} [[1997 Jabalpur earthquake|Jabalpur earthquake]] shook central India with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 38–56 and injuring 1,000–1,500.

===July–September===
*3 July – [[Laloo Prasad Yadav]] is ousted as president of the [[Janata Dal]] party. On 5 July he announces the formation of a new party called [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]].
*14 July – [[K.R. Narayanan]] is elected president, defeating [[T.N. Seshan]].
*25 July – Laloo Prasad Yadav resigns as chief minister of [[Bihar (India)|Bihar]] after a warrant for his arrest, on charges relating to an animal fodder scandal, had been issued. He names his wife, [[Rabri Devi]], as his successor and the first woman chief minister of Bihar.
*25 July – [[K.R. Narayanan]] is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the [[Dalit (outcaste)|Dalit caste]] to hold this office.
*16 August – [[Krishan Kant]] is elected vice president.
*5 September – [[Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] dies of heart failure in [[Kolkata]].
*9 September – 49 senior Hindu politicians and religious figures are charged with conspiracy and incitement to riot for their alleged role in the sacking of the [[Babri mosque]] at [[Ayodhya]] in 1992.

===October–December===
*1 October – Heavy rainfall in Bangalore.
*12–18 October – [[Elizabeth II]] pays a state visit to India.
*21 October – Violence erupts in the [[Uttar Pradesh]] state assembly during a vote of confidence on the Hindu nationalist state government. Deputies trade blows on the floor of the assembly in the state capital of [[Lucknow]] and hurl chairs and microphones at each other. A dozen lawmakers are injured and several journalists are also hurt. The BJP's one-month-old government headed by chief minister [[Kalyan Singh]] lost key support in a hung assembly on 19 October when the Bahujan Samaj Party withdrew its support, plunging India's most populous state into a political crisis. The government wins the confidence vote after opposition members walk out in protest against the violence in the hall. Federal rule over the state is imposed the same day, but later cancelled.
*20 November – Congress threatens to withdraw support for the United Front if it does not drop the regional [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK) party from the government after the DMK was linked by an investigative panel to Sri Lankan separatists blamed for the killing of [[Rajiv Gandhi]].
*21 November – The 6.1 {{M|w}} [[1997 Chittagong earthquake|Chittagong earthquake]] shook the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar border region, killing 23 and injuring 200.
*26 November – The United Front rejects the Congress demand to expel the DMK.
*28 November – Prime Minister Gujral resigns after the Congress party withdrew support from his government.
*4 December – The president orders mid-term elections.
*29 December – [[Sonia Gandhi]], Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi, announces her decision to join the Congress election campaign.

===Exact date unknown===
* [[TRAI]] (telecom regulator) is established.

==Births==
*[[File:Darsheel Safary Mumbai Juniorthon (cropped).jpg|thumb|130x130px|[[Darsheel Safary]]]]9 March – [[Darsheel Safary]], actor
*6 April – [[Gaurav Bajaj]], actor
*8 April – [[Sayantan Das]], chess player
*12 April – [[Ulka Gupta]], actress
*22 April – [[Parvathy Soman]], singer
*14 May – [[Manushi Chhillar]], model, actress (miss world 2017)
*19 June – [[Roshan Sebastian]], singer
*[[File:Bhavya Gandhi.jpg|thumb|212x212px|[[Bhavya Gandhi]]]]20 June – [[Bhavya Gandhi]], actor
*14 September – [[Pragathi Guruprasad]], singer
*[[File:Pantintestmatch.jpg|thumb|119x119px|[[Rishabh Pant]]]]4 October – [[Rishabh Pant]], cricketer
*11 October – [[Tathoi Deb]], actor and director
*11 November – [[Mayank Markande]], cricketer
*5 December – [[Khaleel Ahmed]], cricketer

===Full date unknown===
*[[Alka Ajith]], singer
*[[Shriya Sharma]], actress and model

==Deaths==
*9 December – [[K. Shivaram Karanth]], writer, social activist, environmentalist, [[Yakshagana]] artist, movie maker and [[Intellectual|thinker]] (b. 1902).
*[[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]], actor (b. 1932).
*23 June – [[Acharya Tulsi (Jain Monk)|Acharya Tulsi]], 9th Acharya of the Shwetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism (b. 1914)

== See also ==
* [[Bollywood films of 1997]]

==References==
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