1978 in India

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Events in the year 1978 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

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  Morarji Desai

  Prime Minister of India – Morarji Desai
• Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
• Chief Justice of India – Mirza Hameedullah Beg (until 21 February), Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (starting 22 February)

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Sharda Mukherjee (until 15 August), K. C. Abraham (starting 15 August)
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Jagannath Kaushal
• Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham (until 14 August), Sharda Mukherjee (starting 14 August)
• Haryana – Harcharan Singh Brar
• Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Govind Narain
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
• Madhya Pradesh – N. N. Wanchu (until 16 August), C. M. Poonacha (starting 16 August)
• Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha – Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
• Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
• Sikkim – B B Lal
• Tamil Nadu – Prabhudas Patwari
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - ₹1,126,714 million
• 1 January – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the Arabian Sea after takeoff near Bombay, killing all 213 on board.
• 16 January – Morarji Desai led government demonetizes high denomination banknotes. ^[1]
• 29 March – Dr. Leo Rebello pioneers a 60 lessons distance learning course in Naturopathy to train Naturopaths to serve in India's 560,000 villages.
• 1 May – Launch of District Industrial Centre by Minister of Industries George Fernandes. ^[2]
• 7 November – Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
• 19 December – Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.

Births

January to June

• 4 January – Ramana (actor), actor and producer.
• 13 January – Ashmit Patel, actor.
• 16 January – Vijay Sethupathi, actor.
• 21 March – Rani Mukerji, actress.
• 28 March – Nafisa Joseph, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997 (d.2004).

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  Lara Dutta

  16 April – Lara Dutta, actress, Miss Universe in 2000.
• 4 May – Samita Singh Virtigo patients of Deodh Madhubani Bihar
• 5 May – Sandeep Baswana, actor.
• 25 June – Aftab Shivdasani, actor.

July to December

• 17 August – Disha Vakani, actress.
• 21 August – Bhumika Chawla, actress.
• 31 August – Jayasurya, actor.

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  Soha Ali Khan

  4 October – Soha Ali Khan, actress.
• 18 October – Jyothika, actress.
• 20 October – Virender Sehwag, cricketer.
• 1 November – Manju Warrier, actress.
• 25 November – Sameer Dad, field hockey player.
• 25 November – Rakhi Sawant, actress

Deaths

• 19 February – Pankaj Mullick, singer and composer (b. 1905).
• 20 May – P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, Sanskrit scholar (b. 1890).
• 7 June – I. K. Taimni, chemist (b. 1898).
• 18 November – Dhirendra Nath Ganguly, film entrepreneur, actor and director (b. 1893).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1978

References

1. "41 years ago, Morarji Desai's govt also demonetised high value banknotes". ThePrint. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
2. Ramagundam, Rahul (2022). The Life and Times of George Fernandes. Penguin Random House India. p. 349. ISBN   978-0670092888.