# 1983 in India

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Events in the year 1983 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Zail Singh
* Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
* Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
* Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham (until 15 August), Thakur Ram Lal (starting 15 August)
* Assam – Prakash Mehrotra
* Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
* Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee (until 6 August), K.M. Chandy (starting 6 August)
* Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
* Himachal Pradesh – A. K. Banerjee (until 15 April), Hokishe Sema (starting 15 April)
* Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru
* Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
* Kerala – P. Ramachandran
* Madhya Pradesh –
** until 20 September: B. D. Sharma
** 20 September-7 October: G. P. Singh
** starting 7 October: B. D. Sharma
* Maharashtra – Idris Hasan Latif
* Manipur – S. M. H. Burney
* Meghalaya – Prakash Mehrotra
* Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney
* Odisha – Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha (until 17 August), Bishambhar Nath Pande (starting 17 August)
* Punjab –
** until 7 February: Marri Chenna Reddy
** 7 February-21 February: Surjit Singh Sandhawalia
** 21 February-10 October: Anant Prasad Sharma
** starting 10 October: Bhairab Dutt Pande
* Rajasthan – Om Prakash Mehra
* Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
* Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
* Tripura – S. M. H. Burney
* Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
* West Bengal – Bhairab Dutt Pande (until 10 October), Anant Prasad Sharma (starting 10 October)

## Events

* National income - ₹2,250,742 million
* February – Bandit queen Phoolan Devi surrenders.
* January - Rail Mazdoor Union formed by George Fernandes.
* 18 February – Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the Assam agitation.
* 25 June – India wins the cricket World Cup for the first time.
* November - The first Ekatmata Yatras held by Vishva Hindu Parishad.

## Arts and literature

* Ardh Satya wins Filmfare Best Movie Award.

## Sport

* 25 June – India wins the First Cricket World Cup at Lords under Kapil Dev.

## Births

* 24 January – D. Imman, film composer and singer.
* 30 January Rohit Bhardwaj, Indian Television Actor
* 6 February – Angad Bedi, actor, model and cricketer.
* 6 February – Sreesanth, cricketer.
* 19 March – Karthik Subbaraj, film director and producer.
* 30 March – Nithiin, actor and producer
* 4 May – Trisha Krishnan, actress.
* 15 May – Santhosh Narayanan, music composer and singer.
* 20 May – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
* 25 May - Kunal Khemu, Actor
* Katrina Kaif16 July – Katrina Kaif, actress
* 28 June – Jaiveer Shergill, politician.
* 7 July – Rishab Shetty, actor and director.
* 19 July – Sindhu Tolani, actress
* 27 July – Soccor Velho, footballer (died 2013).
* Dhanush28 July – Dhanush, actor, producer, lyricist and playback singer.
* 14 August – Jennifer Kotwal, actress.
* 31 August – Ira Singhal, Indian Administrative Service officer.
* 17 September- Sanaya Irani, actress.
* 2 November – Nitin Menon, cricket umpire
* 16 November – Thaman S, music composer and playback singer.
* 23 November – Karan Patel, actor.
27 November- Suresh Raina [Cricketer]
* 30 November – Nisha Kothari, actress.

## Deaths

* 11 June – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (born 1894).
* 17 November – E. P. Poulose, politician (born 1909).

### Date unknown

* Fatima Begum, actress and India's first female film director (born 1892).
* V. Ishwaraiah, pharmacology professor (born 1898).