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Events in the year 1943 in India.

Incumbents

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

Events

  • National income - 69,247 million
  • Bengal famine of 1943
  • 3 February - Howrah Bridge in Calcutta commissioned.
  • 10 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
  • 21 October - Subhas Chandra Bose established Azad Hind at Singapore.
  • October - 1943 Madras floods.
  • 5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata
  • 30 December – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a Pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair by hoisting national flag.

Law

  • Reciprocity Act
  • War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act

Births

January to June

  • 1 January – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
  • 8 February – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
  • 30 March – J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
  • 25 April — Devika, actress (d. 2002).
  • 17 May – Mangala Narlikar, mathematician (d. 2023)
  • 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

  • 13 July – E. Harikumar, novelist and short story writer. (died 2020)
  • 29 July – Manas Bihari Verma, aeronautical scientist. (died 2021)
  • 11 August – Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan. (died 2023)
  • 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.
  • 21 October – Tariq Ali, Pakistani-British political activist and writer.
  • 31 October – G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
  • 11 November – Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.

Deaths

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

References