1983 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

  Governors

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

  Events

• February – Bandit queen Phoolan Devi surrenders.
• 18 February – Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, were massacred during the Assam agitation.

  Arts and literature

• Ardh Satya wins Filmfare Best Movie Award.

  Sport

• 25 June – India wins the First Cricket World Cup at Lords under Kapil Dev.

  Births

• 3 February – T.R. Silambarasan, Actor and Filmmaker
• 6 February – Angad Bedi, actor, model and cricketer.
• 6 February – Sreesanth, cricketer.
• 1 March – Mary Kom, boxer
• 8 April – Allu Arjun, actor.
• 20 May – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., actor.
• 27 July – Soccor Velho, footballer.
• 14 August – Jennifer Kotwal, actress.
• 17 September- Sanaya Irani, actress.
• 23 November – Karan Patel, actor.
• 30 November – Nisha Kothari, actress.

  Deaths

• 11 June – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman.
• Fatima Begum, actress and India's first female film director.