1982 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy until 25 July, Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – K. C. Abraham
• Assam – Prakash Mehrotra
• Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
• Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• Himachal Pradesh – A. K. Banerjee
• Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru
• Karnataka – Govind Narain, Ashoknath Banerji
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam, P. Ramachandran
• Madhya Pradesh – B. D. Sharma
• Maharashtra – O. P. Mehra, Idris Hasan Latif
• Manipur – S. M. H. Burney
• Meghalaya – Prakash Mehrotra
• Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney
• Odisha –
• * until 24 June: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• * 25 June-31 August: Ranganath Misra
• * starting 1 September: Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
• Punjab, India|Punjab] – Aminuddin Ahmad Khan, Marri Chenna Reddy
• Rajasthan – K. D. Sharma, Om Prakash Mehra
• Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
• Tamil Nadu – Sadiq Ali, Sundar Lal Khurana
• Tripura – S. M. H. Burney
• Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• West Bengal – Bhairab Dutt Pande

Events

• National income - 1,932,546 million
• March 5 - Gonda Encounter.
• April – INSAT-1A launched; deactivated in September.
• April 7 - Charan Singh announces retirement from active politics.
• April 25 - Doordarshan begins testing of Color television broadcast in India.
• April 30 - Bijon Setu massacre seventeen Ananda Margis were set ablaze at Bijon Setu in Dhakuria in south Kolkata. No one has been convicted of the murders.
• May 29 - Government of India announced setting up of a permanent and integrated Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala (hill, Kannur).
• July 12 – NABARD established through act of Parliament following B. Sivaraman Committee recommendation.
• September 1 - Vypeen alcohol poisonings.
• September 16 - Future Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh becomes Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Sport

• 19 November – 4 December – 9th Asian Games held in Delhi.

Births

• 15 January – Neil Nitin Mukesh, actor.
• 15 February Meera Jasmine, actress.
• 13 March Darbuka Siva, percussionist and composer.
• 28 March Sonia Agarwal, actress.
• 8 April Allu Arjun, actor.
• 28 April – Koyel Mullick, actress.
• 19 May – R. K. Suresh, actor and producer.
• 24 May – Kanchi Kaul, actress.
• 12 June – Shailaja Pujari, weightlifter
• 30 June – Allari Naresh, actor.
• 3 July – Kanika Subramaniam, actress.
• 18 July – Priyanka Chopra, actress, Miss World 2000.
• 8 August Fahadh Faasil, actor.
• 28 August – Prasanna, actor.
• 4 September – Gaurav Gogoi, politician.
• 11 September – Shriya Saran, actress,
• 28 September – Ranbir Kapoor, actor
• 12 October – Hanif Kureshi, artist and designer
• 16 October – Prithviraj Sukumaran actor,

• 21 November – Aarti Chhabria, actress and model.
• 24 November – Mary Kom, boxer
• 8 December Pa. Ranjith, film director.
• 10 December Shiva, actor, comedian, radio jockey, and dialogue writer.
• 14 December Aadhi Pinisetty, actor.
• 15 December Shefali Jariwala, actress and model

Deaths

• 11 January – Manya Surve, Indian urban dacoit and gangster in the Mumbai underworld.
• 3 August – Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• 2 October – C.D. Deshmukh, Minister of Finance and first Governor of the Reserve bank of India
• 15 November – Vinoba Bhave, freedom fighter and teacher.

Full date unknown

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet.