1983 in India
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Events in the year 1983 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Zail Singh
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Events
- February – Bandit queen Phoolan Devi surrenders.
- 18 February – Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the Assam agitation.
Arts and literature
Sport
- 25 June – India wins the First Cricket World Cup at Lords under Kapil Dev.
Births
- 3 February – T.R. Silambarasan, Actor and Filmmaker
- 6 February – Angad Bedi, actor, model and cricketer.
- 6 February – Sreesanth, cricketer.
- 24 February – Kailash Rawat,
- 8 April – Allu Arjun, actor.
- 20 May – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
- 27 July – Soccor Velho, footballer (died 2013).
- 14 August – Jennifer Kotwal, actress.
- 17 September- Sanaya Irani, actress.
- 23 November – Karan Patel, actor.
- 30 November – Nisha Kothari, actress.
Deaths
- 11 June – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (born 1894).
- Fatima Begum, actress and India's first female film director (born 1892).