1963 in India

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Events in the year 1963 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh
• Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
• Bihar – Vishnu Sahay
• Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (until 4 May), S. M. Shrinagesh (starting 4 May)
• Kerala – V. V. Giri
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay (starting 1 December)
• Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
• Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
• Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
• Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events[]

• Supreme Court of India mandates that reservation should not exceed 50% for any institution.
• Theft of the Holy Relic from the Hazratbal Shrine

• The rocket for India's first ever rocket launch was carried in parts on a bicycle to the launch site, a church in Thiruvananthapuram in 1963. The launch sent NASA-made Nike-Apache rocket to space and led to the foundation of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by Vikram Sarabhai on August 15, 1969

Births[]

• 29 April – Deepika Chikhalia, actress.
• 25 May – Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, scientist.
• 2 June – Anand Abhyankar, Marathi Actor. (d.2012)
• 

  V. Irai Anbu
  16 June – Irai Anbu, Indian Administrative Service.
• 30 July – Abhijith, actor.
• 10 August – Phoolan Devi, bandit turned politician, assassinated (d.2001).
• 13 August – Sridevi, Actress. (d.2018)
• 17 August – S. Shankar, director.
• 20 October – Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian opening batsman.
• 4 December – Javed Jaffrey, actor.

Full date unknown[]

• Keshava Malagi, writer.

Deaths[]

• 13 April – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian (b. 1888).
• 30 30 October - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian Freedom Fighter, Orator, Politician (b. 1908).
• 24 November – , Politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• 2 December – Sabu Dastagir, actor (b. 1924).

Full date unknown[]

• Amar Nath Kak, lawyer and author (b. 1889).

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1963