1979 in India
Events in the year 1979 in the Republic of India.
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Incumbents
- President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
- Prime Minister of India – Morarji Desai until 28 July, Charan Singh
- Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – K.C. Abraham
- Assam – L. P. Singh
- Bihar –
- until 31 January: Jagannath Kaushal
- 31 January-20 September: K.B.N. Singh
- starting 20 September: Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
- Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
- Haryana – Harcharan Singh Brar (until 9 December), Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (starting 10 December)
- Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
- Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
- Karnataka – Govind Narain
- Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
- Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha
- 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 (until 6 November), Tribhuvana Narayana Singh (starting 6 November)
Events
- 1 January – President of India makes official the decision to set up the Mandal Commission
- 31 January – The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal.
- 1 June – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh.
- 27 June – CISF conflict at Bokaro
- 11 August – Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people
- Dr. Leo Rebello is appointed Special Executive Magistrate (same as Justice of Peace) for Greater Bombay. Holds the honorary office for 18 years helping thousands of people.
- Athi Varadhar came out after 40 years in Varadharajar Temple, Kanchipuram.
Births
January to June
- 7 January – Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
- 28 February – Srikanth
- 24 March – Emraan Hashmi, actor.
- 23 May - Divya Palat, actress.
- 10 June – D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer. (d. 2015)
- 12 June – Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.
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July to December
- 31 August – Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer and singer.
- 1 September – Aamir Ali, actor
- 11 September – Tulip Joshi, model and actress.
- 14 September – Kamya Panjabi, actress.
- 27 September – B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 7 October – Narain, actor.
- 23 October – Prabhas, actor.
- 4 November – Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
- 14 December – Samit Basu, novelist.
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Deaths
- 18 August - Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1913)
- 3 December – Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b. 1905).
- - D.K.Sapru, character actor.
Full date unknown
- Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899).
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b. 1907).
See also
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