1984 in India
Events in the year 1984 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Zail Singh
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 31 October, Rajiv Gandhi
- Vice President of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah until 30 August; R. Venkataraman
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Thakur Ram Lal, Shankar Dayal Sharma
- Assam –
- * until 28 March: Prakash Mehrotra
- * 28 March-15 April: Tribeni Sahai Misra
- * starting 15 April: Bhishma Narain Singh
- Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
- Gujarat – K.M. Chandy, Braj Kumar Nehru
- Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase, Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
- Himachal Pradesh – Hokishe Sema
- Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru, Jagmohan Malhotra
- Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
- Kerala – P. Ramachandran
- Madhya Pradesh – B. D. Sharma, K.M Chandy
- Maharashtra – Idris Hasan Latif
- Manipur – S. M. H. Burney, K. V. Krishna Rao
- Meghalaya –
- * until 29 March: Prakash Mehrotra
- * 29 March-15 April: Tribeni Sahai Misra
- * starting 15 April: Bhishma Narain Singh
- Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney, K. V. Krishna Rao
- Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
- Punjab – Bhairab Dutt Pande, Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala
- Rajasthan – Om Prakash Mehra
- Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Kona Prabhakar Rao
- Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
- Tripura – S. M. H. Burney, K. V. Krishna Rao
- Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
- West Bengal –
- * until 16 August: Anant Prasad Sharma
- * 16 August-1 October: Satish Chandra
- * starting 1 October: Uma Shankar Dikshit
Events
- National income - 2,521,882 million
January - June
- 6 February - Killing of Ravindra Mhatre by Kashmiri separatists.
- 5 March – Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders Operation Blue Star.
- 2 April – Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
- 13 April – India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
- 14 April - Kanshi Ram founded Bahujan Samaj Party.
- 23 May - Bachendri Pal becomes first Indian women to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 24 May - Kasargod district formed in Kerala.
- 1 June – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star.
- 4 June – Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine.
July - December
- 8 August - PT Usha misses Olympic medal by 1/100 of a second in 1984 Summer Olympics.
- 24 August - The first 3D film in India My Dear Kuttichathan was released.
- 16 October - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi flew down to Madras to visit M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who was hospitalized following Stroke.
- 24 October - India's first metro Kolkata metro started.
- 31 October – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards. Her son Rajiv Gandhi succeeds her as Prime Minister.
- 31 October – 3 November – 1984 anti-Sikh riots: An estimated 2,700-10,000 Sikhs killed during the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other areas; mobs loot and damage several Sikh homes, businesses and Gurdwaras in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
- 5 November - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu airlifted to Downstate Medical Center from Apollo Hospital Madras.
- 15 November - Silent Valley declared as a National Park.
- 3 December – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
Dates not known
- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai got Jnanpith Award.
- Government issued postal stamp of freedom fighter Mangal Pandey
- June - September - Operation woodrose by Indian Army.
- 31 October - 5 December - 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Law
In 1984 by the law Ministry of Environment and Forests are established.Arts and literature
- Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, autonomous non-governmental organisation seeking to preserve Indian culture and heritage, is founded.
Births
- 4 January – Jeeva, actor.
- 6 January - Diljit Dosanjh, Indian Punjabi Singer.
- 4 February – Sandeep Acharya, singer
- 12 March Shreya Ghoshal, playback singer.
- 24 March – Adrian D'Souza, field hockey player.
- 1 April - Murali Vijay, cricketer.
- 2 April - Deep Sidhu, actor and activist.
- 30 May - Rohini Sindhuri, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 21 June Nelson Dilipkumar, Film Director.
- 27 August - Y. S. Avinash Reddy, politician and member of parliament from Kadapa.
- 6 September – Diwakar Prasad, boxer.
- 19 September – Kavya Madhavan, actress.
- 23 September – Armstrong Pame, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 18 October – Freida Pinto, actress
- 27 October – Irfan Pathan, cricketer.
- 12 November -Lavanya Bhardwaj, Indian Television Actor
- 18 November – Nayantara, actress.
- 23 November – Amruta Khanvilkar, actress
Deaths
- 10 March – I. S. Johar, actor, writer, producer and director
- 21 June – Arun Sarnaik, Renowned Marathi film actor, singer
- 6 June - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, militant, killed in Operation Blue Star
- 31 October – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister, assassinated
- 5 November – Rehman, actor
- 25 November - Yashwantrao Chavan, chief minister of Maharashtra
- 31 December - K. R. Ramanathan, physicist and meteorologist
Full date unknown
- Gopi Krishna, yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer and writer.