1973 in 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.
• 15 August - Indira Gandhi buries a Time capsule named Kaalapatra in Red Fort during Independence Day.
• 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.
• 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.
• [[File:Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid at play.jpg|thumb|172x172px|[[Rahul Dravid]]]]11 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.
• [[File:Sachin Tendulkar at MRF Promotion Event.jpg|thumb|119x119px|[[Sachin Tendulkar]]]]24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
• 26 April Samuthirakani, actor and film director.
• 1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
• [[File:Leander Paes (19209244146).jpg|thumb|147x147px|[[Leander Paes]]]]17 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.
• [[File:Aishwarya International Dance Congress Meet.jpg|thumb|150x150px|[[Aishwarya Rai Bachchan|Aishwarya Rai]]]]1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
• 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)

Deaths

• 31 May – Mohan Kumaramangalam, politician (b. 1916).
• 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).

References

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