1943 in India

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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^[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]

Law

• Reciprocity Act
• War Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act

Births

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

References

1. Goswami, Omkar (December 1990). "The Bengal Famine of 1943: re-examining the data". The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 27 (4): 445–463. doi:10.1177/001946469002700403. ISSN 0019-4646.
2. "Indian National Congress". Indian National Congress. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
3. "Memories of Madras: Story of a submerged city". The Hindu. 2011-11-22. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
4. "76 years of Japanese bombing in Kolkata: How World War II almost destroyed the city". Financialexpress. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
5. Mahotsav, Amrit. "Hoisting of the National Flag in Port Blair, 1943". Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Retrieved 2024-04-12.