1943 in India

Events

National income - ₹69,247 million
Bengal famine of 1943^[1]
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.^[2]
October - 1943 Madras floods.^[3]
5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata^[4]
30 December – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a Pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair by hoisting national flag.^[5]

Births

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.

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.

Incumbents