1943 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1943 in India.

Incumbents[edit | edit source]

Emperor of India – George VI
Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
Viceroy of India – The Viscount Wavell (from 1 October)

Events[edit | edit source]

National income - ₹69,247 million
Bengal famine of 1943
10 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata
30 December – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair.

Law[edit | edit source]

Reciprocity Act
War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act

Births[edit | edit source]

January to June[edit | edit source]

1 January – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
30 March – J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
25 April — Devika, actress (d. 2002).
29 May – Enamul Haque, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2021)
2 June – Ilaiyaraaja, film composer, singer and lyricist.
7 June - Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, politician and member of parliament from Narasaraopet.

July to December[edit | edit source]

13 July – E. Harikumar, novelist and short story writer. (died 2020)
29 July – Manas Bihari Verma, aeronautical scientist. (died 2021)
11 August – Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan.
29 August – Vijayakumar, actor.
6 September – P. A. Ibrahim Haji, entrepreneur and philanthropist. (died 2021)
23 September – Tanuja, actress of Bollywood films & younger sister of Nutan.
31 October – G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
11 November – Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.

Deaths[edit | edit source]

15 June – Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, First martyr of Quit India Movement.

Full date unknown[edit | edit source]

Prameela Devi, actress (died 2002).

Years in India (1500–present)

Pre-British period

British India (1612–1950)

Republic of India (1950–present)

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