1943 in India

Events in the year 1943 in India.

Incumbents

 * Emperor of India – George VI
 * Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
 * Viceroy of India – The Viscount Wavell (from 1 October)

Events

 * National income - ₹69,247 million
 * Bengal famine of 1943
 * 3 February - Howrah Bridge in Calcutta commissioned.
 * 10 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
 * 21 October - Subhas Chandra Bose established Azad Hind at Singapore.
 * October - 1943 Madras floods.
 * 5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata
 * 30 December – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a Pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair by hoisting national flag.

Law

 * Reciprocity Act
 * War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act

January to June

 * 1 January – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
 * 8 February – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
 * 30 March – J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
 * 25 April — Devika, actress (d. 2002).
 * 17 May – Mangala Narlikar, mathematician (d. 2023)
 * 29 May – Enamul Haque, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2021)
 * 2 June – Ilaiyaraaja, film composer, singer and lyricist.
 * 7 June - Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, politician and member of parliament from Narasaraopet.

July to December

 * 13 July – E. Harikumar, novelist and short story writer. (died 2020)
 * 29 July – Manas Bihari Verma, aeronautical scientist. (died 2021)
 * 11 August – Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan. (died 2023)
 * 29 August – Vijayakumar, actor.
 * 6 September – P. A. Ibrahim Haji, entrepreneur and philanthropist. (died 2021)
 * 23 September – Tanuja, actress of Bollywood films & younger sister of Nutan.
 * 21 October – Tariq Ali, Pakistani-British political activist and writer.
 * 31 October – G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
 * 11 November – Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.

Deaths

 * 15 June – Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, First martyr of Quit India Movement