1973 in India
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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]
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Births[edit]
January to June[edit]
- 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
- 11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
- 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
- 6 April – Prashanth Thyagarajan, actor.
- 24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
- 17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
- 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
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July to December[edit]
- 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
- 5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
- 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]
- 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).
See also[edit]
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.