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These are the events that happened during 1973 in the Republic of India:

Incumbents

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

Governors

  • 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

  • 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.
  • 24 April –
  • Verdict of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala pronounced. Supreme Court of India upholds basic structure doctrine.
  • Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.
  • 24 May — Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt in Lucknow claims more than 40 lives.
  • 31 May – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crash at Palam International Airport killing 48 of the 65 on board.
  • 15 August - Indira Gandhi buries a Time capsule named Kaalapatra in Red Fort during Independence Day.
  • 27 October — Indira Gandhi inaugurates world's first Women Police Station in the world at Kozhikode.
  • 1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.
  • 12 November — Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and two other leaders drove a Bullock cart to the Parliament of India on the first day of winter session to protest against fuel price hike in India following the oil crisis.
  • 27 November — Aruna Shanbaug case.

Law

Foreign Exchange Regulation Act was passed.

Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was enacted.

Births

January to June

  • 4 January – D. J. Gokulakrishnan, cricketer. (d. 2023)
  • 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
  • thumb|172x172px|[[Rahul Dravid]]11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
  • 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
  • 20 February – Priyanshu Chatterjee, film actor, previously model.
  • 14 March Rohit Shetty, film director.
  • 20 March – Arjun Atwal, golfer.
  • 3 April Prabhu Deva, actor, choreographer and director.
  • 6 April – Prashanth, actor.
  • thumb|119x119px|[[Sachin Tendulkar]]24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
  • 26 April Samuthirakani, actor and film director.
  • 1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
  • thumb|147x147px|[[Leander Paes]]17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
  • 13 June – Arunabha Sengupta, novelist and sports writer
  • 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
  • 29 June – Samir Choughule, actor and writer

July to December

  • 30 July Sonu Sood, actor and philanthropist.
  • 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
  • 5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
  • 10 October S. S. Rajamouli, film director.
  • thumb|150x150px|[[Aishwarya Rai Bachchan|Aishwarya Rai]]1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
  • 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)

Deaths

  • 31 May – Mohan Kumaramangalam, politician (b. 1916).
  • 13 September – Sajjad Zaheer, Urdu writer and revolutionary (b. 1905)
  • 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)
  • 24 December - Periyar social reformer who started Self-Respect Movement and laid the rock bed of Dravidian movement.(b.1879)
  • 30 December – V. Nagayya, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (b. 1904).

See also

  • List of Bollywood films of 1973

References