1963 in India

Events in the year 1963 in the Republic of India.

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Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh
• Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
• Bihar – Vishnu Sahay
• Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (until 4 May), S. M. Shrinagesh (starting 4 May)
• Kerala – V. V. Giri
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay (starting 1 December)
• Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
• Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
• Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
• Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

• National income - ₹230,580 million
• 21 November - India's first ever rocket launch was carried out at Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station Thiruvananthapuram. The launch was successful and it sent NASA-made Nike-Apache rocket to space.
• 15 December - Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan established following recommendations of Second Pay Commission.^[1]
• 27 December - Theft of the Holy Relic from the Hazratbal Shrine
• Indo Swizz project started at Kerala for developing new cattle breed.^[2]

Law

• Supreme Court of India mandates that reservation should not exceed 50% for any institution.^{[citation needed]}

Births

• 23 March - George Maryan, actor and comedian.
• 29 April – Deepika Chikhalia, actress.
• 10 May – A. Raja, politician.
• 25 May – Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, scientist.
• 2 June
  • Anand Abhyankar, Marathi actor. (d.2012)
  • Maganti Gopinath, politician (d. 2025)
• 16 June – Irai Anbu, Indian Administrative Service.
• 27 July – K. S. Chithra, playback singer.
• 30 July – Abhijith, actor.
• 10 August – Phoolan Devi, bandit turned politician, assassinated. (d.2001)
• 13 August – Sridevi, Actress. (d.2018)
• 17 August – S. Shankar, film director.
• 21 August – Radhika Sarathkumar, actress and producer.
• 27 August – Sumalatha, actress.
• 19 September – Bonda Mani, actor. (d. 2023)
• 20 October – Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian opening batsman.
• 4 December – Jaaved Jaaferi, actor.
• 25 December – Raju Srivastav, comedian, actor and politician. (d.2022)

Full date unknown

• Keshava Malagi, writer.

Deaths

• 13 April – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian (b. 1888).
• 30 30 October - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian Freedom Fighter, Orator, Politician (b. 1908).
• 24 November – Marotrao Kannamvar, Politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• 2 December – Sabu Dastagir, actor (b. 1924).

Full date unknown

• Amar Nath Kak, lawyer and author (b. 1889).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1963