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{{Year in India|1983}}<br />
Events in the year '''1983 in the Republic of India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[President of India]] – [[Zail Singh]]<br />
* [[Prime Minister of India]] – [[Indira Gandhi]]<br />
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – [[Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud]]<br />
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===Governors===<br />
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] – [[K. C. Abraham]] (until 15 August), [[Thakur Ram Lal]] (starting 15 August)<br />
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] – [[Prakash Mehrotra]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] – [[Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] – [[Sharda Mukherjee]] (until 6 August), [[K.M. Chandy (politician)|K.M. Chandy]] (starting 6 August)<br />
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] – [[Ganpatrao Devji Tapase]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] – [[A. K. Banerjee]] (until 15 April), [[Hokishe Sema]] (starting 15 April)<br />
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] – [[B. K. Nehru]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] – [[Ashoknath Banerji]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] – [[P. Ramachandran]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] – <br />
** until 20 September: B. D. Sharma <br />
** 20 September-7 October: [[G. P. Singh]]<br />
** starting 7 October: [[B. D. Sharma]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] – [[Idris Hasan Latif]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] – [[S. M. H. Burney]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] – [[Prakash Mehrotra]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] – [[S. M. H. Burney]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] – [[Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha]] (until 17 August), [[Bishambhar Nath Pande]] (starting 17 August)<br />
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] – <br />
** until 7 February: [[Marri Chenna Reddy]] <br />
** 7 February-21 February: [[Surjit Singh Sandhawalia]]<br />
** 21 February-10 October: [[Anant Prasad Sharma]]<br />
** starting 10 October: [[Bhairab Dutt Pande]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] – [[Om Prakash Mehra]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] – [[Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] – [[Sundar Lal Khurana]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] – [[S. M. H. Burney]] <br />
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] – [[Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh]] <br />
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] – [[Bhairab Dutt Pande]] (until 10 October), [[Anant Prasad Sharma]] (starting 10 October)<br />
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==Events==<br />
* National income - {{INR}}2,250,742 million<br />
* February – Bandit queen [[Phoolan Devi]] surrenders.<br />
* 18 February – [[Nellie massacre]]: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the [[Assam agitation]].<br />
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==Law==<br />
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==Arts and literature==<br />
*''[[Ardh Satya]]'' wins [[Filmfare Best Movie Award]].<br />
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==Sport==<br />
*25 June – India wins the [[1983 Cricket World Cup|First Cricket World Cup]] at Lords under Kapil Dev.<br />
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==Births==<br />
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*3 February – [[T.R. Silambarasan]], Actor and Filmmaker<br />
*6 February – [[Angad Bedi]], actor, model and cricketer.<br />
*6 February – [[Sreesanth]], cricketer.<br />
*[[File:Allu Arjun at 62nd Filmfare awards south.jpg|thumb|147x147px|[[Allu Arjun]]]]8 April – [[Allu Arjun]], actor.<br />
*20 May – [[N. T. Rama Rao Jr.]], actor.<br />
*[[File:Katrina Kaif in 2018.jpg|thumb|142x142px|[[Katrina Kaif]]]]16 July – [[Katrina Kaif]], actress<br />
*27 July – [[Soccor Velho]], footballer (died [[2013 in India|2013]]).<br />
*14 August – [[Jennifer Kotwal]], actress.<br />
*31 August – [[Ira Singhal]], Indian Administrative Service officer.<br />
*17 September- [[Sanaya Irani]], actress.<br />
*23 November – [[Karan Patel]], actor.<br />
*30 November – [[Nisha Kothari]], actress.<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
*11 June – [[Ghanshyam Das Birla]], businessman (born 1894).<br />
*Undated<br />
**[[Fatima Begum]], actress and India's first female film director (born 1892).<br />
**[[V. Ishwaraiah]], pharmacology professor (born 1898).<br />
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==References==<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Bollywood films of 1983]]<br />
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