1943 in India

Events in the year 1943 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George VI

Events

• Bengal famine of 1943
• 10 February - 3 March - Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
• 30 December - Subhash Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair.

Births

January to June

• 1 January - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
• 30 March - J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
• 26 May - Manorama, actress.
• 2 June - Ilaiyaraaja, film composer, singer and lyricist.

July to December

• 13 July - E. Harikumar, novelist and short story writer.
• 11 August - Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan.
• 23 September - Tanuja, actress of Bollywood films & younger sister of Nutan.
• 31 October - G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
• 11 November - Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.

Full date unknown

• Prameela Devi, actress (d.2002).