1983 in India

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See also:	List of years in India; Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1983 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[edit]

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]

Arts and literature[edit]

Ardh Satya wins Filmfare Best Movie Award.

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.
Allu Arjun
8 April – Allu Arjun, actor.
20 May – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
Katrina Kaif
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).

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1983 in India

Incumbents[edit]

Governors[edit]

Events[edit]

Law[edit]

Arts and literature[edit]

Sport[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

References[edit]

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