1973 in 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

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.