1973 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri, Ajit Nath Ray

  Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Manipur –
• Meghalaya –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

• 1 April – Government campaign to save the tiger from extinction.
• 1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.

  Births

January to June

• 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
• 11 January – Rahul Dravid, cricketer.
• 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
• 6 April – Prashanth Thyagarajan, actor.
• 24 April – Sachin Tendulkar, cricketer.
• 17 June – Leander Paes, tennis player.
• 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.

  July to December

• 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
• 1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
• 19 November – Shakeela, actress.
• 17 December – John Abraham, actor.

  Full date unknown

• Arunabha Sengupta, novelist.

  Deaths

• 20 November - Prabodhankar Thackeray, Politician, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Author
• 30 December – Chittor V. Nagaiah, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer.