1981 in India

Events in the year 1981 in the Republic of India.

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Decades:
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See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents
  • President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
  • 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 – L. P. Singh (until 10 August), Prakash Mehrotra (starting 10 August)
  • Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
  • Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
  • Haryana – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
  • Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (until 26 August), A. K. Banerjee (starting 26 August)
  • Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha (until 22 February), B. K. Nehru (starting 22 February)
  • Karnataka – Govind Narain
  • Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
  • Madhya Pradesh –
    • until 25 May: B. D. Sharma
    • 25 May-9 July: G. P. Singh
    • starting 9 July: B. D. Sharma
  • Maharashtra – O. P. Mehra
  • Manipur – L.P. Singh (until 18 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 18 August)
  • Meghalaya – L.P. Singh (until 11 August), Prakash Mehrotra (starting 11 August)
  • Nagaland – L.P. Singh (until 11 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 11 August)
  • Odisha – Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha
  • Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi (until 26 August), Aminuddin Ahmad Khan (starting 26 August)
  • Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak (until 8 August), K. D. Sharma (starting 8 August)
  • Sikkim – B. B. Lal (until 9 January), Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan (starting 10 January)
  • Tamil Nadu – Sadiq Ali
  • Tripura – L. P. Singh (until 18 August), S. M. H. Burney (starting 18 August)
  • Uttar Pradesh – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
  • West Bengal – Tribhuvana Narayana Singh (until 12 September), Bhairab Dutt Pande (starting 12 August)

Events
  • National income - ₹1,727,755 million
  • April 30 - Nearly 48 killed in Bihar Sharif due to communal riots between Yadavs and Muslims.[1][2]
  • July – About 308 people die in Bangalore after drinking illicit liquor (see: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths).
  • Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic is founded in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. It is a Government aided co-educational technical institute.
  • National Aluminium Company incorporated as a public sector enterprise of the Government of India.
  • 2 July – Infosys is founded in Pune.
  • 4 December - Around 45 people got killed due to a stampede at Qutb Minar resulting in closure of Minaret for tourists.[3][4]

Births
MS Dhoni
Manish Paul
  • 3 January – Sanggai Chanu, field hockey player.
  • 28 January – Karunakaran (actor), actor and comedian.
  • 25 February – Anuj Sawhney, actor and model.
  • Saroo Brierley, writer
  • 9 June – Celina Jaitley, actress.
  • 17 June – Amrita Rao, model and actress.
  • 19 June – Gulzar Khan, philosopher and mathematician.
  • 7 July – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, cricketer.
  • 3 August – Manish Paul, Indian television host, anchor and actor
  • 25 August – Shiva Keshavan, luge pilot
  • 30 August – Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, IAS.
  • 5 September – H. Vinoth, film director.
  • 27 September – Lakshmipathy Balaji, cricketer.
  • 7 October – Abhijeet Sawant, singer and winner of Indian Idol (season 1).
  • 12 October – Sneha, actress.
  • 14 October – Gautam Gambhir, cricketer and politician
  • 7 November – Anushka Shetty, actress.
  • 27 November – Vikram Pillay, field hockey player.
  • 9 December – Dia Mirza, actress and model.

12 December -

  • Ashok, actor.
  • Yuvraj Singh, cricketer.
Yuvraj Singh

Deaths
  • 3 May – Nargis, actress (born 1929).
  • 19 June – Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Physician created World's second IVF (born 1931)
  • 24 September – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham and scholar (born 1905).
  • 26 December – Savitri, actress (born 1936).
  • 28 December – David Abraham Cheulkar, actor (born 1908).

See also
  • List of Bollywood films of 1981

References
  1. Farz, Ahmed (31 May 1981). "Communal violence in Biharsharif leaves 48 people dead, 68 injured". India Today. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. Ali, Asghar (1981). "Biharsharif Carnage: A Field Report". Economic and Political Weekly. 16 (20): 887–889. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 4369828.
  3. Times, Special to the New York (5 December 1981). "Around the World; 45 Killed in Stampede At Monument in India". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  4. "December 6, 1980, Forty Years Ago: Qutub Tragedy". The Indian Express. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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