1973 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1973 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[edit]

President of India – V. V. Giri
Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri (until 26 April), Ajit Nath Ray (starting 26 April)

Governors[edit]

Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru (until 19 September), L. P. Singh (starting 19 September)
Bihar – Dev Kant Baruah (until 4 February), Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare (starting 4 February)
Gujarat –
- until 17 March: Shriman Narayan
- 17 March-4 April: P.N. Bhagwati
- starting 4 April: Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay (until 3 July), L. K. Jha (starting 3 July)
Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia
Kerala – V. Viswanathan (until 1 April), N. N. Wanchoo (starting 1 April)
Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung
Manipur – B. K. Nehru (until 20 September), L.P. Singh (starting 21 September)
Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru (until 18 September), L.P. Singh (starting 18 September)
Nagaland – B.K. Nehru (until 18 September), L.P. Singh (starting 18 September)
Odisha – Basappa Danappa Jatti
Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate (until 21 May), Mahendra Mohan Choudhry (starting 21 May)
Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
Tripura – B. K. Nehru (until 23 September), L. P. Singh (starting 23 September)
Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events[edit]

National income - ₹672,407 million
10 January - P. V. Narasimha Rao resigns as Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh following the resignation of ministers from Coastal Andhra post the 1972 Jai Andhra movement.
1 April – Government campaign to save the tiger from extinction.
31 May – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crash at Palam International Airport killing 48 of the 65 on board.^[1]
24 April – Verdict of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala pronounced. Supreme Court of India upholds basic structure doctrine.^[2]
1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.

Law[edit]

Births[edit]

January to June[edit]

5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
Rahul Dravid
11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
20 February – Priyanshu Chatterjee, film actor, previously model
20 March – Arjun Atwal, golfer
6 April – Prashanth Thyagarajan, actor.
Sachin Tendulkar
24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.^[3]
1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
Leander Paes
17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
29 June – Samir Choughule, actor and writer

July to December[edit]

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Satyendra Dubey
1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
Aishwarya Rai
1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)

Full date unknown[edit]

Arunabha Sengupta, novelist.

Deaths[edit]

14 October – Siddavanahalli Krishna Sarma, writer, translator, freedom fighter, journalist, social worker and educationist (b. 1904)
20 November – Prabodhankar Thackeray, Politician, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Author (b. 1885)
30 December – Chittor V. Nagaiah, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (b. 1904).

References[edit]

↑ "Lodi News-Sentinel – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
↑ "Explained: In SC reading of basic structure, the signature of Kesavananda Bharati". The Indian Express. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
↑ "Happy Birthday Sachin Tendulkar: Master Blaster turns 46". India Today. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

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