1987 in India

Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

 * President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
 * Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
 * Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman until 24 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
 * Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
 * Arunachal Pradesh –
 * 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
 * starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
 * Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
 * Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
 * Goa – Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
 * Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
 * Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
 * Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
 * Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
 * Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
 * Kerala – P. Ramachandran
 * Madhya Pradesh –
 * until 30 November: K.M Chandy
 * 30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
 * starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
 * Maharashtra – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
 * Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
 * Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
 * Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
 * Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
 * Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
 * Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
 * Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
 * Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
 * Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
 * Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
 * Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
 * West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events

 * National income - ₹3,618,647 million

January - June

 * January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness and republic day
 * 17 January - Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kannur.
 * 7 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.
 * 19 March - 1987 Opera House heist
 * 23 March - Controversial 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election held.
 * March – Magnetic ink character recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
 * March - June - 1987 Meerut riots
 * 12 April - V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India following his disclosure about kickbacks in defense deals by predecessors.
 * May - 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India ended.
 * 22 May - Hashimpura massacre.
 * 30 May – The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
 * 4 June - Operation Poomalai by India in Jaffna.
 * June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement.

July - December

 * 29 July - Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to restore peace in the island signed.
 * 30 July - Assault on Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi by a Sri Lanka Navy sailor named Vijitha Rohana during Guard of honour at Colombo.


 * October – ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
 * 11 - 12 October - Jaffna University Helidrop by Indian Peace Keeping Force
 * 20 November–27 November – The South Asian Games are held in Calcutta.
 * 28 December - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.

Births

 * 1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
 * 3 March – Shraddha Kapoor, actress.
 * 31 March – Janani Iyer, actress.
 * 18 February – Mahat Raghavendra, actor
 * 24 April – Varun Dhawan, actor
 * 25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
 * 28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
 * 30 April – Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
 * 4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
 * 7 May – Sundeep Kishan, actor, producer
 * 2 June – Santhosh Prathap, actor
 * 13 June – G. V. Prakash Kumar, film composer, singer and actor.
 * 25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
 * 3 July – Arjai, actor
 * 1 August – Taapsee Pannu, actress.
 * 5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.Genelia D'Souza still11.jpg]]
 * 6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
 * 25 October – Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
 * 1 November – Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
 * 20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
 * 18 December – Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.
 * 28 December – Diganth Manchale, actor

Deaths

 * 13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
 * 1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
 * Kishore Kumar 2016 postcard of India (cropped).jpg October – [[Kishore Kumar]], playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
 * 27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
 * 24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

Full date unknown

 * Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).