1973 in India
These are the events that happened during 1973 in the Republic of India:
Incumbents
- President of India – V. V. Giri
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak
- Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri, Ajit Nath Ray
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
- Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru, L. P. Singh
- Bihar – Dev Kant Baruah, Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
- Gujarat –
- * until 17 March: Shriman Narayan
- * 17 March-4 April: P.N. Bhagwati
- * starting 4 April: Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
- Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
- Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
- Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay, L. K. Jha
- Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia
- Kerala – V. Viswanathan, N. N. Wanchoo
- Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
- Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung
- Manipur – B. K. Nehru, L.P. Singh
- Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru, L.P. Singh
- Nagaland – B.K. Nehru, L.P. Singh
- Odisha – Basappa Danappa Jatti
- Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate, Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
- Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
- Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
- Tripura – B. K. Nehru, L. P. Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
- West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias
Events
- National income — 672,407 million
- 10 January — P. V. Narasimha Rao resigns as Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh following the resignation of ministers from Coastal Andhra post the 1972 Jai Andhra movement.
- 1 April – Government campaign to save the tiger from extinction.
- 24 April –
- * Verdict of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala pronounced. Supreme Court of India upholds basic structure doctrine.
- * Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.
- 24 May — Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt in Lucknow claims more than 40 lives.
- 31 May – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crash at Palam International Airport killing 48 of the 65 on board.
- 15 August - Indira Gandhi buries a Time capsule named Kaalapatra in Red Fort during Independence Day.
- 27 October — Indira Gandhi inaugurates world's first Women Police Station in the world at Kozhikode.
- 1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.
- 12 November — Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and two other leaders drove a Bullock cart to the Parliament of India on the first day of winter session to protest against fuel price hike in India following the oil crisis.
- 27 November — Aruna Shanbaug case.
Law
Foreign Exchange Regulation Act was passed.Code of Criminal Procedure was enacted.
Births
January to June
- 4 January – D. J. Gokulakrishnan, cricketer.
- 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
- 11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
- 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
- 20 February – Priyanshu Chatterjee, film actor, previously model.
- 14 March Rohit Shetty, film director.
- 20 March – Arjun Atwal, golfer.
- 3 April Prabhu Deva, actor, choreographer and director.
- 6 April – Prashanth, actor.
- 24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
- 26 April Samuthirakani, actor and film director.
- 1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
- 17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
- 13 June – Arunabha Sengupta, novelist and sports writer
- 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
- 29 June – Samir Choughule, actor and writer
July to December
- 30 July Sonu Sood, actor and philanthropist.
- 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
- 5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
- 10 October S. S. Rajamouli, film director.
- 1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
- 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service officer.
Deaths
- 31 May – Mohan Kumaramangalam, politician.
- 13 September – Sajjad Zaheer, Urdu writer and revolutionary
- 14 October – Siddavanahalli Krishna Sarma, writer, translator, freedom fighter, journalist, social worker and educationist
- 20 November – Prabodhankar Thackeray, Politician, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Author
- 24 December - Periyar social reformer who started Self-Respect Movement and laid the rock bed of Dravidian movement.
- 30 December – V. Nagayya, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer.