1991 in India

	1991; in; India
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Decades:	1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s
See also:	Other events of 1991; List of years in India; Timeline of Indian history

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Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.

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Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: The stone mosaic that stands at the exact location where Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur

21 May - Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Tamil suicide bomber in southern India during the election campaign.
31 May - The Government of India constitutes the Company Law Board as an independent quasi-judicial body thus giving up direct control on matters of company law.
15 June - When the general election results are all compiled, the Congress Party has won a plurality of votes.
21 June - Indian National Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister.
24 June - J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
24 July - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
11 October - Sikh Separatists bomb Hindu Procession in Lucknow, killing 41 people.
11 December - Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.

31 JULY Siddharth kumar

15 May - Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (b.1901).
24 October - Ismat Chughtai, writer (b.1915).