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Events in the year 1983 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – 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 (until 15 August), Thakur Ram Lal (starting 15 August)
• Assam – Prakash Mehrotra
• Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee (until 6 August), K.M. Chandy (starting 6 August)
• Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• Himachal Pradesh – A. K. Banerjee (until 15 April), Hokishe Sema (starting 15 April)
• Jammu and Kashmir – B. K. Nehru
• Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji
• Kerala – P. Ramachandran
• Madhya Pradesh –
  • until 20 September: B. D. Sharma
  • 20 September-7 October: G. P. Singh
  • starting 7 October: B. D. Sharma
• Maharashtra – Idris Hasan Latif
• Manipur – S. M. H. Burney
• Meghalaya – Prakash Mehrotra
• Nagaland – S. M. H. Burney
• Odisha – Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha (until 17 August), Bishambhar Nath Pande (starting 17 August)
• Punjab –
  • until 7 February: Marri Chenna Reddy
  • 7 February-21 February: Surjit Singh Sandhawalia
  • 21 February-10 October: Anant Prasad Sharma
  • starting 10 October: Bhairab Dutt Pande
• Rajasthan – Om Prakash Mehra
• Sikkim – Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
• Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
• Tripura – S. M. H. Burney
• Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• West Bengal – Bhairab Dutt Pande (until 10 October), Anant Prasad Sharma (starting 10 October)

Events

• National income - ₹2,250,742 million
• February – Bandit queen Phoolan Devi surrenders.
• January - Rail Mazdoor Union formed by George Fernandes.^[1]
• 18 February – Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the Assam agitation.
• 25 June – India wins the cricket World Cup for the first time.
• November - The first Ekatmata Yatras held by Vishva Hindu Parishad.^[2]

Law

Arts and literature

• Ardh Satya wins Filmfare Best Movie Award.

Sport

• 25 June – India wins the First Cricket World Cup at Lords under Kapil Dev.

Births

• 24 January – D. Imman, film composer and singer.
• 3 February – T.R. Silambarasan, Actor and Filmmaker
• 6 February – Angad Bedi, actor, model and cricketer.
• 6 February – Sreesanth, cricketer.
• 19 March – Karthik Subbaraj, film director and producer.
• 30 March – Nithiin, actor and producer
• 4 May – Trisha Krishnan, actress.
• 15 May – Santhosh Narayanan, music composer and singer.
• 20 May – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
• 25 May - Kunal Khemu, Actor

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  16 July – Katrina Kaif, actress
• 28 June – Jaiveer Shergill, politician.
• 7 July – Rishab Shetty, actor and director.
• 19 July – Sindhu Tolani, actress
• 27 July – Soccor Velho, footballer (died 2013).
• 28 July – Dhanush, actor, producer, lyricist and playback singer.
• 14 August – Jennifer Kotwal, actress.
• 31 August – Ira Singhal, Indian Administrative Service officer.
• 17 September- Sanaya Irani, actress.
• 2 November – Nitin Menon, cricket umpire
• 16 November – Thaman S, music composer and playback singer.
• 23 November – Karan Patel, actor.
• 30 November – Nisha Kothari, actress.

Deaths

• 11 June – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (born 1894).
• 17 November – E. P. Poulose, politician (born 1909).

Date unknown

• Fatima Begum, actress and India's first female film director (born 1892).
• V. Ishwaraiah, pharmacology professor (born 1898).