1980 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
• Prime Minister of India – Charan Singh until 14 January, then Indira Gandhi again became the prime minister of India.
• Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
• Haryana – Surjit Singh Sandhawalia, Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Govind Narain
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
• Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha, B. D. Sharma
• Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali, O. P. Mehra
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha –
• * until 30 April: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
• * 30 April-30 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• * 1 October-3 November: S. K. Ray
• * starting 3 November: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
• Sikkim – B. B. Lal
• Tamil Nadu –
• * until 26 October: Prabhudas Patwari
• * 26 October-3 November: M. M. Ismail
• * starting 3 November: Sadiq Ali
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase, Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh

Events

• National income - 1,470,629 million
• 1 January – India asks Soviet Union for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

• 14 January – Indira Gandhi returned to power.
• 5 April - Bharatiya Janata Party was formed.
• 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash near Safdarjung Airport.
• 18 July - SLV-3 successfully launched from Sriharikota.
• Rajiv Gandhi quits working as pilot for Indian Airlines.
• The Bhagalpur Blindings were widely publicized by Indian media.
• 31 December – B. P. Mandal, chairman of the Backward Classes Commission, submitted his report to the government.

Law

• 25 October - Forest Act

Science

• 1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics

Sport

Births

• 21 January Santhanam, actor and comedian.
• 10 February – Mohd. Iqbal Khan, actor.
• 13 March – Varun Gandhi, politician
• 17 March – Nikitin Dheer, actor
• 20 April – Sunaina Sunaina, weightlifter
• 2 June – Dola Banerjee, archer
• 4 June Prashanth Neel, film director.
• 20 June – Bobby Darling, actor.
• 5 July – Zayed Khan, actor.
• 7 July – Ramachandra Raju, actor.
• 8 July – Chetan Anand, badminton player.
• 12 August Ghibran, music composer.
• 14 August – Prabhjot Singh, field hockey player.
• 16 August – Upen Patel, model and actor.
• 18 August – Preeti Jhangiani, actress and model.
• 30 August – Richa Pallod, model and actress.
• 10 September Jayam Ravi, actor.
• 18 September – Akshay Kapoor, actor.
• 21 September – Kareena Kapoor, actress.
• 18 October – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, cricketer.
• 24 October – Laila Mehdin, actress.
• 12 November – Devesh Chauhan, field hockey player.
• 13 November – Harman Baweja, actor.
• 9 December – Gagan Ajit Singh, field hockey player.
• 11 December – Arya, actor.
• 17 December – Arjun Halappa, field hockey player.
• 28 December – Deepak Thakur, field hockey player.

Deaths

• 23 June – Sanjay Gandhi, politician.
• 23 June – Varahagiri Venkata Giri, fourth president of India.
• 18 July – Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer.
• 24 July – Uttam Kumar, actor.
• 31 July – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer.
• 2 August – Ramkinkar Baij, sculptor and painter
• 17 August – Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, writer.
• 25 October – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter.
• 11 November – Chenganoor Raman Pillai, Kathakali artiste.
• 16 November – Jayan, actor.