1973 in India
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These are the events that happened during 1973 in the Republic of India:
Incumbents
- President of India – V. V. Giri
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak
- 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
- National income — ₹672,407 million
- 10 January — P. V. Narasimha Rao resigns as Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh following the resignation of ministers from Coastal Andhra post the 1972 Jai Andhra movement.
- 1 April – Government campaign to save the tiger from extinction.
- 24 April –
- Verdict of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala pronounced. Supreme Court of India upholds basic structure doctrine.[1][2]
- Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.[3][4]
- 24 May — Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt in Lucknow claims more than 40 lives.[5][6]
- 31 May – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crash at Palam International Airport killing 48 of the 65 on board.[7]
- 15 August - Indira Gandhi buries a Time capsule named Kaalapatra in Red Fort during Independence Day.[8]
- 27 October — Indira Gandhi inaugurates world's first Women Police Station in the world at Kozhikode.[9]
- 1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.[10]
- 12 November — Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and two other leaders drove a Bullock cart to the Parliament of India on the first day of winter session to protest against fuel price hike in India following the oil crisis.[11][12]
- 27 November — Aruna Shanbaug case.
Law
Foreign Exchange Regulation Act was passed. Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was enacted.
Births
January to June
- 4 January – D. J. Gokulakrishnan, cricketer. (d. 2023)
- 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
Rahul Dravid - 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
- 20 February – Priyanshu Chatterjee, film actor, previously model.
- 14 March – Rohit Shetty, film director.
- 20 March – Arjun Atwal, golfer.
- 3 April – Prabhu Deva, actor, choreographer and director.
- 6 April – Prashanth, actor.
Sachin Tendulkar - 26 April – Samuthirakani, actor and film director.
- 1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
Leander Paes - 13 June – Arunabha Sengupta, novelist and sports writer
- 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
- 29 June – Samir Choughule, actor and writer
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July to December
- 30 July – Sonu Sood, actor and philanthropist.
- 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
- 5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
- 10 October – S. S. Rajamouli, film director.
Aishwarya Rai - 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)
Deaths
- 31 May – Mohan Kumaramangalam, politician (b. 1916).[14]
- 13 September – Sajjad Zaheer, Urdu writer and revolutionary (b. 1905)
- 14 October – Siddavanahalli Krishna Sarma, writer, translator, freedom fighter, journalist, social worker and educationist (b. 1904)
- 20 November – Prabodhankar Thackeray, Politician, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Author (b. 1885)
- 24 December - Periyar social reformer who started Self-Respect Movement and laid the rock bed of Dravidian movement.(b.1879)
- 30 December – V. Nagayya, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (b. 1904).
See also
References
- ↑ "Explained: In SC reading of basic structure, the signature of Kesavananda Bharati". The Indian Express. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ↑ Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 264. ISBN 0195648889.
- ↑ FRONTLINE, TEAM (14 August 2022). "1973: Chipko movement starts". Frontline. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "What is the Chipko movement?". The Indian Express. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "When LU became ground zero for PAC revolt". The Times of India. 1 June 2018. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "Death Toll Is 40 in Indian State As Revolt by Police Continues". The New York Times. 24 May 1973. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "Lodi News-Sentinel – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ↑ "All about time capsule Indira Gandhi buried in 1973 which Janata Party govt exhumed in 1977". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
- ↑ "Asia's first women's police station, in Kozhikode, set to celebrate golden jubilee". The Hindu. 17 October 2023. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "What happened in 1973?". DNA India. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT ASSAIL MRS. GANDHI". The New York Times. 13 November 1973. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "Photos: When Vajpayee arrived in Parliament on a bullock cart, and more". Hindustan Times. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ↑ "Happy Birthday Sachin Tendulkar: Master Blaster turns 46". India Today. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ↑ 3 Americans survive, but 4 die in New Delhi crash
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