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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1978 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[edit | edit source]
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Morarji Desai - Chief Justice of India – Mirza Hameedullah Beg (until 21 February), Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (starting 22 February)
Governors[edit | edit source]
- Andhra Pradesh – Sharda Mukherjee (until 15 August), K. C. Abraham (starting 15 August)
- Assam – L. P. Singh
- Bihar – Jagannath Kaushal
- Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham (until 14 August), Sharda Mukherjee (starting 14 August)
- Haryana – Harcharan Singh Brar
- Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
- Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
- Karnataka – Govind Narain
- Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
- Madhya Pradesh – N. N. Wanchu (until 16 August), C. M. Poonacha (starting 16 August)
- Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali
- Manipur – L.P. Singh
- Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
- Nagaland – L.P. Singh
- Odisha – Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
- Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
- Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
- Sikkim – B. B. Lal
- Tamil Nadu – Prabhudas Patwari
- Tripura – L. P. Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
- West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias
Events[edit | edit source]
- National income - ₹1,126,714 million
- 1 January – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the Arabian Sea after takeoff near Bombay, killing all 213 on board.
- 16 January – Morarji Desai led government demonetizes high denomination banknotes.[1]
- 29 March – Dr. Leo Rebello pioneers a 60 lessons distance learning course in Naturopathy to train Naturopaths to serve in India's 560,000 villages.
- 7 November – Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
- 19 December – Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.
Law[edit | edit source]
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Births[edit | edit source]
January to June[edit | edit source]
- 13 January – Ashmit Patel, actor.
- 21 March – Rani Mukerji, actress.
- 28 March – Nafisa Joseph, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997 (d.2004).
Lara Dutta - 4 May – Samita Singh Virtigo patients of Deodh Madhubani Bihar
- 5 May – Sandeep Baswana, actor.
- 25 June – Aftab Shivdasani, actor.
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July to December[edit | edit source]
- 17 August – Disha Vakani, actress.
- 21 August – Bhumika Chawla, actress.
- 31 August – Jayasurya, actor.
- 16 September – Meena, actress.
Soha Ali Khan - 20 October – Virender Sehwag, cricketer.
- 1 November – Manju Warrier, actress.
- 25 November – Sameer Dad, field hockey player.
- 25 November – Rakhi Sawant, actress
Deaths[edit | edit source]
- 19 February – Pankaj Mullick, singer and composer (b. 1905).
- 18 November – Dhirendra Nath Ganguly, film entrepreneur, actor and director (b. 1893).
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "41 years ago, Morarji Desai's govt also demonetised high value banknotes". ThePrint. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
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