1997 in India

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{{Year in India|1997}}
Events in the year '''1997 in the Republic of India'''.

==Incumbents==
* [[President of India]] – [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]] until 25 July, [[K. R. Narayanan]]
* [[Prime minister of India]] – [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] until 21 April, [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
* [[Vice President of India]] – [[K. R. Narayanan]] until 21 August, [[Krishna Kant]]
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – [[Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi]] until 24 March, [[Jagdish Sharan Verma]]

===Governors===
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] –
** until 22 August: [[Krishan Kant]]
** 22 August-24 November: [[Gopala Ramanujam]]
** starting 24 November: [[C. Rangarajan]]
* [[List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh|Arunachal Pradesh]] – [[Mata Prasad]]
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] – [[Loknath Mishra]] (until 1 September), [[Srinivas Kumar Sinha]] (starting 1 September)
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] – [[Mohammad Shafi Qureshi]]
* [[List of governors of Goa|Goa]] – [[P.C. Alexander]]
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] – [[Krishna Pal Singh]]
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] – [[Mahabir Prasad]]
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] – [[Mahabir Prasad]] (until 25 July), [[V. S. Ramadevi]] (starting 25 July)
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] – [[K. V. Krishna Rao]]
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] – [[Khurshed Alam Khan]]
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] – [[Khurshid Alam Khan]] (until 25 January), [[Sukhdev Singh Kang]] (starting 25 January)
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] – [[Mohammad Shafi Qureshi]]
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] – [[P.C. Alexander]]
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] – [[O.N. Shrivastava]]
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] – [[M.M. Jacob]]
* [[List of governors of Mizoram|Mizoram]] – [[P. R. Kyndiah]]
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] – [[Om Prakash Sharma (Nagaland politician)|Om Prakash Sharma]]
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] –
** until 30 January: [[Gopala Ramanujam]]
** 30 January-12 February: [[K. V. Raghunatha Reddy]]
** 13 February-13 December: [[Gopala Ramanujam]]
** starting 13 December: [[K. V. Raghunatha Reddy]]
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] – [[B. K. N. Chhibber|Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber]]
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] – [[Bali Ram Bhagat]]
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] – [[Chaudhary Randhir Singh]]
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] – [[Krishan Kant]] (until 24 January), [[M. Fathima Beevi]] (starting 24 January)
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] – [[Siddheswar Prasad]]
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] – [[Romesh Bhandari]]
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] – [[K. V. Raghunatha Reddy]]

==Events==
* National income - {{INR}}15,452,939 million

=== January - March ===
* 7 February – An alliance of [[Sikh]] and [[Hindu]] nationalist parties wins a resounding victory over the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in state assembly elections in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/editor-s-note/story/19970228-verdict-in-punjab-assembly-polls-should-come-like-a-bracing-cold-shower-832744-1997-02-28|title='Verdict in Punjab assembly polls should come like a bracing cold shower'|date=28 February 1997 }}</ref>
* 28 February – The government is strengthened by a daring, market friendly budget.
* 13 March – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses [[Sister Nirmala]] to succeed [[Mother Teresa]] as its leader.
* 19 March – The [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] (BSP), a powerful party, deserts its alliance with Congress in [[Uttar Pradesh]] to form a government with the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP).
* 30 March – Congress withdraws support from the United Front, accusing Prime Minister [[H.D. Deve Gowda]] of poor leadership.

=== April - June ===
* 21 April – [[Inder Kumar Gujral]], a new leader acceptable to Congress, is sworn in as prime minister.
* 21 April – [[1997 Raghopur Massacre]] took place in [[Bihar]].
* 22 May – The 5.8 {{M|w}} [[1997 Jabalpur earthquake|Jabalpur earthquake]] shook central India with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), killing 38–56 and injuring 1,000–1,500.
* 7 June - [[Brihadeeswarar temple fire]] at [[Tamil Nadu]].
* June - [[Jagmohan Dalmiya]] elected as the president of [[International Cricket Council]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 7, 1997 |first=Rophit |last=Brijnath |title=Jagmohan Dalmiya promises to turn ICC into a powerful organisation |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/sport/story/19970707-jagmohan-dalmiya-promises-to-turn-icc-into-a-powerful-organisation-832575-1997-07-07 |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref>
* 30 June - [[1997 Melavalavu massacre]] in [[Tamil Nadu]]

=== July - September ===
* 3 July – [[Laloo Prasad Yadav]] is ousted as president of the [[Janata Dal]] party. On 5 July he announces the formation of a new party called [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]].
* 14 July – [[K.R. Narayanan]] is elected president, defeating [[T.N. Seshan]].
* 25 July – Laloo Prasad Yadav resigns as chief minister of Bihar after a warrant for his arrest, on charges relating to an animal fodder scandal, had been issued. He names his wife, [[Rabri Devi]], as his successor and the first woman chief minister of Bihar.
* 25 July – [[K.R. Narayanan]] is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the [[Dalit (outcaste)|Dalit caste]] to hold this office.
* 16 August – [[Krishan Kant]] is elected vice president.
* 5 September – [[Mother Teresa of Calcutta]] dies of heart failure in [[Kolkata]].
* 9 September – 49 senior Hindu politicians and religious figures are charged with conspiracy and incitement to riot for their alleged role in the sacking of the [[Babri mosque]] at [[Ayodhya]] in 1992.

=== October - December ===
* 1 October – Heavy rainfall in Bangalore.
* 12–18 October – [[Elizabeth II]] pays a state visit to India.
* 14 October - [[Arundhati Roy]] wins [[Booker Prize]] for her debut novel [[The God of Small Things]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lyall |first=Sarah |date=1997-10-15 |title=Indian's First Novel Wins Booker Prize in Britain |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/15/world/indian-s-first-novel-wins-booker-prize-in-britain.html |access-date=2022-05-02 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* 21 October – Violence erupts in the [[Uttar Pradesh]] state assembly during a vote of confidence on the Hindu nationalist state government. Deputies trade blows on the floor of the assembly in the state capital of [[Lucknow]] and hurl chairs and microphones at each other. A dozen lawmakers are injured and several journalists are also hurt. The BJP's one-month-old government headed by chief minister [[Kalyan Singh]] lost key support in a hung assembly on 19 October when the [[Bahujan Samaj Party]] withdrew its support, plunging India's most populous state into a political crisis. The government wins the confidence vote after opposition members walk out in protest against the violence in the hall. Federal rule over the state is imposed the same day, but later cancelled.
* 20 November – Congress threatens to withdraw support for the United Front if it does not drop the regional [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK) party from the government after the DMK was linked by an investigative panel to Sri Lankan separatists blamed for the killing of [[Rajiv Gandhi]].
* 21 November – The 6.1 {{M|w}} [[1997 Chittagong earthquake|Chittagong earthquake]] shook the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar border region, killing 23 and injuring 200.
* 26 November – The United Front rejects the Congress demand to expel the DMK.
* 28 November – Prime Minister [[Inder Kumar Gujral]] resigns after the Congress party withdrew support from his government.
* 4 December – The president orders mid-term elections.
* 29 December – [[Sonia Gandhi]], Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi, announces her decision to join the Congress election campaign.

==Law==
* [[TRAI]] (telecom regulator) is established.

==Births==
*4 Jan - [[Nimisha Sajayan]], actress
*17 January - [[Charithra Chandran]], english actress
*[[File:Janhvi Kapoor snapped at the press show of Bawaal.jpg|thumb|130x130px|[[Janhvi Kapoor]]]]6 March - [[Janhvi Kapoor]], actress
*[[File:Darsheel Safary Mumbai Juniorthon (cropped).jpg|thumb|130x130px|[[Darsheel Safary]]]]9 March – [[Darsheel Safary]], actor
*28 March - [[Anu Emmanuel]], actress
*6 April – [[Gaurav Bajaj]], actor
*8 April – [[Sayantan Das]], chess player
*12 April – [[Ulka Gupta]], actress
*22 April – [[Parvathy Soman]], singer
*14 May – [[Manushi Chhillar]], model, actress (miss world 2017)
*19 June – [[Roshan Sebastian]], singer
*[[File:Bhavya Gandhi.jpg|thumb|212x212px|[[Bhavya Gandhi]]]]20 June – [[Bhavya Gandhi]], actor.
*21 June - [[Faria Abdullah]], actress and theatre artiste
*22 June - [[Banita Sandhu]], actress
*7 July -[[Tanya Maniktala]], actress
*1 August - [[Medha Shankr]], actress
*12 August - [[Sayyeshaa]], actress.
*12 August - [[Ashi Singh]], actress
*24 August - [[Deepti Sharma]], cricketer
*14 September – [[Pragathi Guruprasad]], singer
*2 October – [[Lovlina Borgohain]], Indian boxer and an Olympic medal winner.
*4 October – [[Rishabh Pant]], cricketer
*11 October – [[Tathoi Deb]], actor and director
*12 October – [[Rinku Singh (cricketer)|Rinku Singh]], cricketer
*14 October - [[Dushara Vijayan]], actress
*22 October – [[Sarfaraz Khan (cricketer)|Sarfaraz Khan]], cricketer
*26 October - [[Femina George]], actress
*11 November – [[Mayank Markande]], cricketer
*28 November - [[Alaya F]], actress
*5 December – [[Khaleel Ahmed]], cricketer
*12 December – [[Ravi Kumar Dahiya]], Indian freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the 57 kg category.
*[[File:Neeraj Chopra Of India(Javelin).jpg|thumb|165x165px|[[Neeraj Chopra]]]]24 December – [[Neeraj Chopra]], Indian army, 2021 Olympics Gold medalist in Javelin throw

===Full date unknown===
*[[Alka Ajith]], singer
*[[Shriya Sharma]], actress and model

==Deaths==
*28 January – [[Palani Baba (Politician )|Palani Baba]], fundamentalist Islamist politician.<ref>[https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19970228-killing-of-palani-baba-sparks-off-communal-flare-up-in-tamil-nadu-832745-1997-02-28 Killing of Palani Baba sparks off communal flare-up in Tamil Nadu]</ref>
*23 June – [[Acharya Tulsi (Jain monk)|Acharya Tulsi]], 9th Acharya of the Shwetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism (b. 1914)
*5 September - [[Mother Teresa]]
*9 December – [[K. Shivaram Karanth]], writer, social activist, environmentalist, [[Yakshagana]] artist, movie maker and [[Intellectual|thinker]] (b. 1902).
*[[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]], actor (b. 1932).

== See also ==
* [[Bollywood films of 1997]]

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