1988 in India

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Events in the year 1988 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
• Arunachal Pradesh – R. D. Pradhan
• Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah (until 25 February), Govind Narain Singh (starting 25 February)
• Goa – Gopal Singh
• Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
• Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney (until 21 February), Hari Anand Barari (starting 22 February)
• Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
• Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
• Karnataka – Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
• Kerala – P. Ramachandran (until 23 February), Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
• Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy
• Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until 23 February), Ram Dulari Sinha (starting 23 February)
• Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
• Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande (until 20 November), Saiyid Nurul Hasan (starting 20 November)
• Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Rajasthan – Sukhdev Prasad (starting 20 February)
• Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
• Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana (until 16 February), P. C. Alexander (starting 16 February)
• Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
• West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events[]

• April – Security & Exchange Board of India established to deal with the development and regulation of the securities market and investor protection.
• The Discount and Finance House of India, set up as a money market institution, commenced operations.
• July – The National Housing Bank established as an apex body of housing finance and to promote activities in housing development.
• August – Stock Holding Corporation of India, a depository institution, commenced operations.
• August -
• 21 August – The 6.9 M_w  Bihar earthquake shook northern Bihar near Nepal with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 709–1,450.
• October – Maximum lending rate abolished. Banks free to charge customers according to their credit record.
• The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
• Voting age reduced from 21 to 18 years
• 26 December - caste violence between Kapus and Kammas erupts in costal districts of Andhra Pradesh following death of a Congress I M.L.A named Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga Rao.^[1]

Births[]

• 

  Vicky Kaushal
  4 January – Nabila Jamshed, novelist.
• 

  Cheteshwar Pujara
  25 January – Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.
• 20 February – Jiah Khan, actress.(d.2013)
• 8 April – Saqib Saleem, model and actor
• 16 May – Vicky Kaushal, actor
• 6 June - Ajinkya Rahane, cricketer.
• 10 July - Manjari Fadnis, film actress
• 2 September - Ishant Sharma, cricketer.
• 6 September – Sargun Mehta, TV actress
• 12 September – Prachi Desai, actress.
• 22 September – Sana Saeed, actress and model.
• 26 September – Sandhya, film actress^[2]
• 

  Virat Kohli
  5 November – Virat Kohli, cricketer
• 25 November – Rochelle Rao, model and anchor
• 2 December – Soniya Mehra, actress.
• 

  Ravindra Jadeja
  6 December - Ravindra Jadeja, cricketer.
• 24 December – Piyush Chawla, cricketer.

Deaths[]

• August – Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter (born 1900).
• 29 October – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter (born 1903).
• 24 December – Jainendra Kumar, novelist (born 1905).
• 

  Raj Kapoor
  2 June – Raj Kapoor, legendary actor in Bollywood (born 1924)

Full date unknown[]

• Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (born 1904).

See also[]

• Bollywood films of 1988

References[]