1943 in India
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{{Year in India|1943}}
Events in the year 1943 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India – George VI
- Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
- Viceroy of India – The Viscount Wavell (from 1 October)
Events
- National income - {{INR}}69,247 million
- Bengal famine of 1943{{Cite journal |last=Goswami |first=Omkar |date=December 1990 |title=The Bengal Famine of 1943: re-examining the data |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001946469002700403 |journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=445–463 |doi=10.1177/001946469002700403 |issn=0019-4646|url-access=subscription }}
- 3 February - Howrah Bridge in Calcutta commissioned.
- 10 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
- 21 October - Subhas Chandra Bose established Azad Hind at Singapore.{{Cite web |title=Indian National Congress |url=https://inc.in/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Indian National Congress |language=en}}
- October - 1943 Madras floods.{{Cite news |date=2011-11-22 |title=Memories of Madras: Story of a submerged city |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/memories-of-madras-story-of-a-submerged-city/article2650132.ece |access-date=2024-04-12 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}
- 5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata{{Cite web |title=76 years of Japanese bombing in Kolkata: How World War II almost destroyed the city |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/76-years-of-japanese-bombing-in-kolkata-how-world-war-ii-almost-destroyed-the-city/1419989/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=Financialexpress |language=en}}
- 30 December – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a Pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair by hoisting national flag.{{Cite web |last=Mahotsav |first=Amrit |title=Hoisting of the National Flag in Port Blair, 1943 |url=https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/district-reopsitory-detail.htm?20049 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of Culture, Government of India |language=English}}
Law
- Reciprocity Act
- War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act
Births
=January to June=
- 1 January – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
- 8 February – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
- 30 March – J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
- 25 April — Devika, actress (d. 2002).
- 17 May – Mangala Narlikar, mathematician (d. 2023)
- 29 May – Enamul Haque, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2021)
- 2 June – Ilaiyaraaja, film composer, singer and lyricist.
- 7 June - Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, politician and member of parliament from Narasaraopet.
=July to December=
- 13 July – E. Harikumar, novelist and short story writer. (died 2020)
- 29 July – Manas Bihari Verma, aeronautical scientist. (died 2021)
- 11 August – Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan. (died 2023)
- 29 August {{ndash}} Vijayakumar, actor.
- 6 September – P. A. Ibrahim Haji, entrepreneur and philanthropist. (died 2021)
- 23 September – Tanuja, actress of Bollywood films & younger sister of Nutan.
- 21 October – Tariq Ali, Pakistani-British political activist and writer.
- 31 October – G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
- 11 November – Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.
Deaths
- 15 June – Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, First martyr of Quit India Movement
References
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