1987 in India

• President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman until 24 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

• Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
• Arunachal Pradesh –
• 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
• starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
• Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
• Goa – Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
• Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
• Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
• Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
• Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
• Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
• Kerala – P. Ramachandran
• Madhya Pradesh –
• until 30 November: K.M Chandy
• 30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
• starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
• Maharashtra – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
• Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
• Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
• Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
• Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
• Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
• Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
• Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
• Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
• West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

• National income - {{INR}}3,618,647 million

• January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness and republic day
• 17 January - Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kannur.
• 7 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.{{Cite web |title=March 7, 1987: Sunil Gavaskar becomes 1st batsman to score 10,000 Test runs in Ahmedabad |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/on-this-day-in-1987-sunil-gavaskar-becomes-1st-player-to-score-10000-test-runs-1776580-2021-03-07 |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=India Today |language=en}}
• 19 March - 1987 Opera House heist
• 23 March - Controversial 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election held.
• March – Magnetic ink character recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
• March - June - 1987 Meerut riots
• 12 April - V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India following his disclosure about kickbacks in defense deals by predecessors.{{Cite journal |last=Wariavwalla |first=Bharat |date=1988 |title=India in 1987: Democracy on Trial |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2644813 |journal=Asian Survey |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=119–125 |doi=10.2307/2644813 |issn=0004-4687|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-11 |title=HT This Day: April 13, 1987 -- V. P. Singh resigns |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ht-this-day-april-13-1987-v-p-singh-resigns-101649694857800.html |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}
• May - 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India ended.
• 22 May - Hashimpura massacre.{{Cite web |date=2018-10-31 |title=Hashimpura massacre: Here is what happened |url=https://indianexpress.com/photos/picture-gallery-others/hashimpura-massacre-most-chilling-murder-in-free-india/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}
• 30 May – The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
• 4 June - Operation Poomalai by India in Jaffna.
• June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement.

• 15 July - Neerukonda massacre of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh.
• 29 July - Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to restore peace in the island signed.
• 30 July - Assault on Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi by a Sri Lanka Navy sailor named Vijitha Rohana during Guard of honour at Colombo.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-28 |title=HT This Day: July 31, 1987 -- Rajiv hurt in rifle-butt attack by Lanka sailor |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ht-this-day-july-31-1987-rajiv-hurt-in-rifle-butt-attack-by-lanka-sailor-101659011196941.html |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}

• 4 September - Roop Kanwar case - last known incident of Sati in India, occurred at Sikar district.{{Cite web |date=2001-03-26 |title=Death By Fire by Mala Sen: The story of Roop Kanwar and other victims |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/books/story/20010326-death-by-fire-by-mala-sen-the-story-of-roop-kanwar-and-other-victims-775480-2001-03-25 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=India Today |language=en}}
• October – ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
• 11 - 12 October - Jaffna University Helidrop by Indian Peace Keeping Force
• 20 November–27 November – The South Asian Games are held in Calcutta.{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Daniel |title=Encyclopedia of International Games |date=17 March 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1527-1 |page=511 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjPECwAAQBAJ&pg=PA511 |language=en}}
• 28 December - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.

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• 1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
• 3 March – Shraddha Kapoor, actress.
• 31 March – Janani Iyer, actress.
• 18 February – Mahat Raghavendra, actor
• 24 April – Varun Dhawan, actor
• 25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
• 28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.

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• 30 April – Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
• 4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
• 7 May – Sundeep Kishan, actor, producer
• 2 June – Santhosh Prathap, actor
• 13 June {{ndash}} G. V. Prakash Kumar, film composer, singer and actor.
• 25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
• 3 July – Arjai, actor
• 1 August {{ndash}} Taapsee Pannu, actress.
• 5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.File:Genelia D'Souza still11.jpg]]
• 6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
• 25 October – Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
• 1 November {{ndash}} Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
• 20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
• 18 December – Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.
• 28 December – Diganth Manchale, actor

• 13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
• 1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
• File:Kishore Kumar 2016 postcard of India (cropped).jpg]]13 October – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
• 27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
• 24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

• Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).

• Bollywood films of 1987

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