Template:Unreferenced Template:Year in India Events in the year 1981 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh –
- Assam –
- Bihar –
- Gujarat –
- Haryana –
- Himachal Pradesh –
- Jammu and Kashmir –
- Karnataka –
- Kerala –
- Madhya Pradesh –
- Maharashtra –
- Manipur –
- Meghalaya –
- Nagaland –
- Odisha –
- Punjab –
- Rajasthan –
- Sikkim –
- Tamil Nadu –
- Tripura –
- Uttar Pradesh –
- West Bengal –
Events
- July – About 308 people die in Bangalore after drinking illicit liquor (see: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths).
- Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic is founded in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. It is a Government aided co-educational technical institute.
- National Aluminium Company incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Government of India.
- 2 July – Infosys is founded in Pune
Births
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- 3 January – Sanggai Chanu, field hockey player.
- 25 February – Anuj Sawhney, actor and model.
- 9 June – Celina Jaitley, actress.
- 17 June – Amrita Rao, model and actress.
- 19 June – Gulzar Khan, philosopher and mathematician.
- 7 July – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, cricketer.
- 3 August - Manish Paul, Indian television host, anchor and actor
- 25 August – Shiva Keshavan, luge pilot
- 30 August – Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, IAS.
- 27 September – Lakshmipathy Balaji, cricketer.
- 7 October – Abhijeet Sawant, singer and winner of Indian Idol (season 1)
- 14 October - Gautam Gambhir, Cricketer and politician
- 27 November – Vikram Pillay, field hockey player.
- 9 December – Dia Mirza, actress and model.
12 December -
- Ashok, actor.
- Yuvraj Singh, cricketer.
Deaths
- 3 May – Nargis, actress (born 1929).
- 19 June - Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Physician created World's second IVF (born 1931)
- 24 September – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham and scholar (born 1905).
- 26 December – Savitri, actress (born 1936).
- 28 December – David Abraham Cheulkar, actor (born 1908).