1978 in India

Events in the year 1978 in the Republic of India.

← 1977 1976 1975 1978 in India → 1979 1980 1981
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

• 

  Morarji Desai

  Prime Minister of India – Morarji Desai
• Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
• Chief Justice of India – Mirza Hameedullah Beg (until 21 February), Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (starting 22 February)

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Sharda Mukherjee (until 15 August), K. C. Abraham (starting 15 August)
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Jagannath Kaushal
• Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham (until 14 August), Sharda Mukherjee (starting 14 August)
• Haryana – Harcharan Singh Brar
• Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Govind Narain
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
• Madhya Pradesh – N. N. Wanchu (until 16 August), C. M. Poonacha (starting 16 August)
• Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha – Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
• Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
• Sikkim – B B Lal
• Tamil Nadu – Prabhudas Patwari
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - ₹1,126,714 million
• 1 January – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the Arabian Sea after taking off shortly near Bombay, killing all 213 on board.
• 16 January – Morarji Desai led government demonetizes high denomination banknotes.^[1]
• 29 March – Dr. Leo Rebello pioneers a 60 lessons distance learning course in Naturopathy to train Naturopaths to serve in India's 560,000 villages.
• 1 May – Launch of District Industrial Centre by Minister of Industries George Fernandes.^[2]
• 7 November – Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
• 19 December – Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.

Law

Births

January to June

• 4 January – Ramana (actor), actor and producer.
• 13 January – Ashmit Patel, actor.
• 16 January – Vijay Sethupathi, actor.
• 21 March – Rani Mukerji, actress.
• 28 March – Nafisa Joseph, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997 (d.2004).

• 

  Lara Dutta

  16 April – Lara Dutta, actress, Miss Universe in 2000.
• 5 May – Sandeep Baswana, actor.
• 25 June – Aftab Shivdasani, actor.

July to December

• 17 August – Disha Vakani, actress.
• 21 August – Bhumika Chawla, actress.
• 31 August – Jayasurya, actor.

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  Soha Ali Khan

  4 October – Soha Ali Khan, actress.
• 18 October – Jyothika, actress.
• 20 October – Virender Sehwag, cricketer.
• 1 November – Manju Warrier, actress.
• 25 November – Sameer Dad, field hockey player.
• 25 November – Rakhi Sawant, actress

Deaths

• 19 February – Pankaj Mullick, singer and composer (b. 1905).
• 20 May – P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, Sanskrit scholar (b. 1890).
• 7 June – I. K. Taimni, chemist (b. 1898).
• 18 November – Dhirendra Nath Ganguly, film entrepreneur, actor and director (b. 1893).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1978