1973 in India

These are the events that happened during 1973 in the Republic of India:

Incumbents

 * President of India – V. V. Giri
 * Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
 * Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak
 * Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri (until 26 April), Ajit Nath Ray (starting 26 April)

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
 * Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru (until 19 September), L. P. Singh (starting 19 September)
 * Bihar – Dev Kant Baruah (until 4 February), Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare (starting 4 February)
 * Gujarat –
 * until 17 March: Shriman Narayan
 * 17 March-4 April: P.N. Bhagwati
 * starting 4 April: Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
 * Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
 * Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
 * Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay (until 3 July), L. K. Jha (starting 3 July)
 * Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia
 * Kerala – V. Viswanathan (until 1 April), N. N. Wanchoo (starting 1 April)
 * Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
 * Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung
 * Manipur – B. K. Nehru (until 20 September), L.P. Singh (starting 21 September)
 * Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru (until 18 September), L.P. Singh (starting 18 September)
 * Nagaland – B.K. Nehru (until 18 September), L.P. Singh (starting 18 September)
 * Odisha – Basappa Danappa Jatti
 * Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate (until 21 May), Mahendra Mohan Choudhry (starting 21 May)
 * Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
 * Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
 * Tripura – B. K. Nehru (until 23 September), L. P. Singh (starting 23 September)
 * Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
 * West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

 * National income — ₹672,407 million
 * 10 January — P. V. Narasimha Rao resigns as Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh following the resignation of ministers from Coastal Andhra post the 1972 Jai Andhra movement.
 * 1 April – Government campaign to save the tiger from extinction.
 * 24 April –
 * Verdict of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala pronounced. Supreme Court of India upholds basic structure doctrine.
 * Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.
 * 24 May — Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt in Lucknow claims more than 40 lives.
 * 31 May – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crash at Palam International Airport killing 48 of the 65 on board.
 * 27 October — Indira Gandhi inaugurates world's first Women Police Station in the world at Kozhikode.
 * 1 November – State of Mysore is renamed Karnataka State.
 * 12 November — Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and two other leaders drove a Bullock cart to the Parliament of India on the first day of winter session to protest against fuel price hike in India following the oil crisis.

Law
Foreign Exchange Regulation Act was passed. Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was enacted.

January to June

 * 4 January – D. J. Gokulakrishnan, cricketer. (d. 2023)
 * 5 January – Uday Chopra, actor.
 * Former Indian captain Rahul Dravid at play.jpg January – [[Rahul Dravid]], cricketer.
 * 12 January – Saakshi Tanwar, actress.
 * 20 February – Priyanshu Chatterjee, film actor, previously model.
 * 14 March – Rohit Shetty, film director.
 * 20 March – Arjun Atwal, golfer.
 * 3 April – Prabhu Deva, actor, choreographer and director.
 * 6 April – Prashanth, actor.
 * Sachin Tendulkar at MRF Promotion Event.jpg April – [[Sachin Tendulkar]], cricketer.
 * 26 April – Samuthirakani, actor and film director.
 * 1 May – Diana Hayden, Miss World and actress
 * Leander Paes (19209244146).jpg June – [[Leander Paes]], tennis player.
 * 13 June – Arunabha Sengupta, novelist and sports writer
 * 18 June – Baljit Singh Dhillon, field hockey player.
 * 29 June – Samir Choughule, actor and writer

July to December

 * 30 July – Sonu Sood, actor and philanthropist.
 * 1 September – Ram Kapoor, actor.
 * 5 October – Vishwas Nangare Patil, Indian police officer.
 * 10 October – S. S. Rajamouli, film director.
 * Aishwarya International Dance Congress Meet.jpg]]1 November – Aishwarya Rai, actress.
 * 27 November – Satyendra Dubey, LATE Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. (d. 2003)

Deaths

 * 31 May – Mohan Kumaramangalam, politician.
 * 14 October – Siddavanahalli Krishna Sarma, writer, translator, freedom fighter, journalist, social worker and educationist (b. 1904)
 * 20 November – Prabodhankar Thackeray, Politician, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, Author (b. 1885)
 * 24 December - Periyar social reformer who started Self-Respect Movement and laid the rock bed of Dravidian movement.(b.1879)
 * 30 December – V. Nagayya, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (b. 1904).