1983 in India

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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

Events

• February - Bandit queen Phoolan Devi surrenders.
• 18 February - Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the Assam agitation.

Arts and literature

• Ardh Satya wins Filmfare Best Movie Award.

Sport

• 25 June - India wins the third Cricket World Cup at Lords under Kapil Dev.

Births

• 3 February - T.T. Silambarasan, Actor and Filmmaker
• 6 February - Angad Bedi, actor, model and cricketer.
• 6 February - Sreesanth, cricketer.
• 8 April - Allu Arjun, actor.
• 19 May - Sartaj khan, actor.
• 20 May - N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
• 22 May - Prasad Vijay Kadam
• 22 June - Naresh Kondapalli, masters in uni. of hertfordshire, uk.
• 27 July - Soccor Velho, footballer (died 2013).
• 14 August - Jennifer Kotwal, actress.
• 11 September - Shirya Sharan actress.
• 23 November - Karan Patel, actor.
• 30 November - Nisha Kothari, actress.

Deaths

• 11 June - Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (born 1894).
• Fatima Begum, actress and India's first female film director (born 1892).

References

See also

• Bollywood films of 1983