1973 in India

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← 1972 1971 1970 1973 in India → 1974 1975 1976
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Events in the year 1973 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• 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[]

• 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[]

• 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.

Births[]

January to June[]

• 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
• 

  Rahul Dravid
  11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
• 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
• 6 April – Prashanth Thyagarajan, actor.
• 

  Sachin Tendulkar
  24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
• 

  Leander Paes
  17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
• 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.

July to December[]

• 

  Satyendra Dubey
  1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
• 5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
• 

  Aishwarya Rai
  1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
• 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)

Full date unknown[]

• Arunabha Sengupta, novelist.

Deaths[]

• 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[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1973

References[]