1981 in India
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Events in the year 1981 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[]
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors[]
- Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
- Assam – L. P. Singh (until 10 August), Prakash Mehrotra (starting 10 August)
- Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
- Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
- Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
- Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (until 26 August), (starting 26 August)
- Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha (until 22 February), B. K. Nehru (starting 22 February)
- Karnataka – Govind Narain
- Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
- Madhya Pradesh –
- until 25 May: B. D. Sharma
- 25 May-9 July: G. P. Singh
- starting 9 July: B. D. Sharma
- Maharashtra – O. P. Mehra
- Manipur – L.P. Singh (until 18 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 18 August)
- Meghalaya – L.P. Singh (until 11 August), Prakash Mehrotra (starting 11 August)
- Nagaland – L.P. Singh (until 11 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 11 August)
- Odisha – Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
- Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi (until 26 August), Aminuddin Ahmad Khan (starting 26 August)
- Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak (until 8 August), K. D. Sharma (starting 8 August)
- Sikkim – B. B. Lal (until 9 January), Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan (starting 10 January)
- Tamil Nadu – Sadiq Ali
- Tripura – L. P. Singh (until 18 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 18 August)
- Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
- West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh (until 12 September), Bhairab Dutt Pande (starting 12 August)
Events[]
- July – About 308 people die in Bangalore after drinking illicit liquor (see: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths).
- Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic is founded in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. It is a Government aided co-educational technical institute.
- National Aluminium Company incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Government of India.
- 2 July – Infosys is founded in Pune
Births[]
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MS Dhoni
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Manish Paul
- 3 January – Sanggai Chanu, field hockey player.
- 25 February – Anuj Sawhney, actor and model.
- Saroo Brierley, writer
- 9 June – Celina Jaitley, actress.
- 17 June – Amrita Rao, model and actress.
- 19 June – Gulzar Khan, philosopher and mathematician.
- 7 July – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, cricketer.
- 3 August – Manish Paul, Indian television host, anchor and actor
- 25 August – Shiva Keshavan, luge pilot
- 30 August – Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, IAS.
- 27 September – Lakshmipathy Balaji, cricketer.
- 7 October – Abhijeet Sawant, singer and winner of Indian Idol (season 1)
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- 27 November – Vikram Pillay, field hockey player.
- 9 December – Dia Mirza, actress and model.
12 December -
- Ashok, actor.
- Yuvraj Singh, cricketer.
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Yuvraj Singh
Deaths[]
- 3 May – Nargis, actress (born 1929).
- 19 June – Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Physician created World's second IVF (born 1931)
- 24 September – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham and scholar (born 1905).
- 26 December – Savitri, actress (born 1936).
- 28 December – David Abraham Cheulkar, actor (born 1908).
See also[]
- List of Bollywood films of 1981
Categories:
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- Years of the 20th century in India
- 1980s in India
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