1979 in India

Template:Unreferenced Template:Year in India Events in the year 1979 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
• Prime Minister of India – Morarji Desai until 28 July, Charan Singh
• 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 – Jaisukh lal Hathi
• Rajasthan –
• Sikkim –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• 1 January – President of India makes official the decision to set up the Mandal Commission
• 31 January – The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal.
• 1 June – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh.
• 27 June – CISF conflict at Bokaro
• 11 August – Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people
• Dr. Leo Rebello is appointed Special Executive Magistrate (same as Justice of Peace) for Greater Bombay. Holds the honorary office for 18 years helping thousands of people.
• Athi Varadhar came out after 40 years in Varadharajar Temple, Kanchipuram.

Births

January to June

• 

  Bipasha Basu

  7 January – Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
• 28 February – Srikanth

• 

  Emraan Hashmi

  24 March – Emraan Hashmi, actor.
• 17 April – Siddarth Narayanan, actor.
• 23 May - Divya Palat, actress.
• 10 June – D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer.
• 12 June – Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.

July to December

• 1 July - Sanjeev Kumar Mishra, Writer
• 31 August – Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer and singer.
• 1 September – Aamir Ali, actor
• 11 September – Tulip Joshi, model and actress.

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  Kamya Punjabi

  14 September – Kamya Panjabi, actress.
• 27 September – B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
• 3 October – Sanjukta Parashar, IPS.
• 7 October – Narain, actor.
• 23 October – Prabhas, actor.
• 4 November – Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
• 14 December – Samit Basu, novelist.

Deaths

• 18 August - Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1913)
• 3 December – Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b. 1905).
• - D.K.Sapru, character actor.

Full date unknown

• Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899).
• Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b. 1907).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1979