1991 in India

Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.

The year 1991 was a watershed moment in the history of Economy of India. It was the year in which India formally announced it's shift towards Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization from hitherto existed Mixed economy that was predominantly a Planned economy.

Incumbents
 President of India – R. Venkataraman
 Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao
 Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma
 Chief Justice of India – 
 until 24 November – Ranganath Misra  
 25 November-12 December – Kamal Narain Singh
 starting 13 December – Madhukar Hiralal Kania

Governors
 Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant 
 Arunachal Pradesh – 
 until 16 March: Devi Das Thakur 
 16 March-25 March: Loknath Mishra
 starting 25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy
 Assam – Devi Das Thakur (until 17 March), Loknath Mishra (starting 17 March)
 Bihar – 
 until 13 February: Mohammad Saleem 
 14 February-18 March: B. Satya Narayan Reddy
 starting 18 March: Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
 Goa – Khurshed Alam Khan (until 17 March), Bhanu Prakash Singh (starting 18 March)
 Gujarat – Sarup Singh
 Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal 
 Himachal Pradesh – Virendra Verma 
 Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena
 Karnataka – Bhanu Pratap Singh
 Kerala – B. Rachaiah
 Madhya Pradesh – M. A. Khan
 Maharashtra – C. Subramaniam
 Manipur – Chintamani Panigrahi 
 Meghalaya – Madhukar Dighe (starting 8 May)
 Mizoram – Swaraj Kaushal 
 Nagaland – M. M. Thomas 
 Odisha – Yagya Dutt Sharma 
 Punjab – Om Prakash Malhotra (until 7 August), Surendra Nath (starting 7 August)
 Rajasthan – Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya (until 26 August), Sarup Singh (starting 26 August)
 Sikkim – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani 
 Tamil Nadu – Surjit Singh Barnala (until 14 February), Bhishma Narain Singh (starting 14 February)
 Tripura – K. V. Raghunatha Reddy 
 Uttar Pradesh – B. Satya Narayan Reddy 
 West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events

 National income - 6,622,605 million
 1 January - Minister of Civil Aviation Harmohan Dhawan declares Thiruvananthapuram Airport as International airport.
 6 January – The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded in Udaipur.
 21 May – Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu during the election campaign.
 31 May – The Government of India constitutes the Company Law Board as an independent quasi-judicial body thus giving up direct control on matters of company law.
 15 June – When the general election results are all compiled, the Congress Party has won a plurality of votes.
 21 June – Indian National Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister.
 24 June – J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
 24 July – The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
 17 October – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
 20 October – The 6.8  Uttarkashi earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 768–2,000 and injuring 1,383–1,800.
 11 December – Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.

laws were passed and liberalisation happened

Births
26 January – Vijay Shankar, cricketer.
 16 February – Mayank Agarwal, cricketer.
 24 March – Krunal Pandya, cricketer.
 7 May – Gaurav Chaudhary, Youtuber
29 June – D. Karthika Anagha, Carnatic classical vocalist.
 15 July – Rajisha Vijayan, actress.
31 July  Kiara Advani, actress.
 9 August – Hansika Motwani, actress.
 5 September – Honey Rose, actress.
 27 September – Amzad Ali, cricketer.
 16 October – Shardul Thakur, cricketer.
 18 October – Jaydev Unadkat, cricketer.
 26 October – Amala Paul, actress.
 30 November – Nivetha Pethuraj, actress.
6 December – Karun Nair, Indian cricketer.

Deaths
 21 February – Nutan, Bollywood actress
15 May – Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (born 1901)
21 May – Rajiv Gandhi, prime minister (1984–1989), Bharat Ratna (1991) (born 1944)
24 October – Ismat Chughtai, writer (born 1915)

References

See also 
 Bollywood films of 1991

 
India
Years of the 20th century in India