1943 in India

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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[]

• Bengal famine of 1943
• 10 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
• 5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata
• 30 December – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair.

Births[]

January to June[]

• 1 January – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
• 30 March – J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
• 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, former President of Pakistan.
• 6 September – P. A. Ibrahim Haji, entrepreneur and philanthropist. (died 2021)
• 23 September – Tanuja, actress of Bollywood films & younger sister of Nutan.
• 31 October – G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
• 11 November – Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.

Deaths[]

15 June – Kushal Konwar, , First martyr of Quit India Movement.

Full date unknown[]

• Prameela Devi, actress (died 2002).