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
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
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