# 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.
** Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.
* 24 May — Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt in Lucknow claims more than 40 lives.
* 31 May – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crash at Palam International Airport killing 48 of the 65 on board.
* 27 October — Indira Gandhi inaugurates world's first Women Police Station in the world at Kozhikode.
* 1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.
* 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.

## 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 Dravid11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
* 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 Tendulkar24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
* 26 April – Samuthirakani, actor and film director.
* 1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
* Leander Paes17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
* 13 June – Arunabha Sengupta, novelist and sports writer
* 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
* 29 June – Samir Choughule, actor and writer

### 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 Rai1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
* 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)

## Deaths

* 31 May – Mohan Kumaramangalam, politician.
* 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).