Incumbents

• President of India
  President of India
  The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
  
   – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , OM, FBA was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India and subsequently the second President of India ....
  
  
• Prime Minister of India
  Prime Minister of India
  The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
  
   – Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
  
  

Events

• Supreme Court of India
  Supreme Court of India
  The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India...
  
   mandates that reservation should not exceed 50% for any institution.
• Hazratbal disappearance episode
  Hazratbal disappearance episode
  The Hazratbal disappearance episode is the incident in 1963 of the disappearance of a hair - believed to be of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from the Hazratbal shrine in Jammu and Kashmir state in India.The hair was reported disppeared on 26 December 1963...
  
  

Births

• April 28 - Atul Kumar, Scientist.
• April 29 - Deepika Chikhalia
  Deepika Chikhalia
  Deepika Chikhalia is an Indian actress who rose to fame playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Ramayan. She met with limited success in films in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
  
  , actress.
• May 10 - A. Raja
  A. Raja
  Andimuthu Raja is an Indian politician from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam political party. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Nilgiris constituency of Tamil Nadu....
  
  , politician
• May 25 - Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
  Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
  Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava is a bio-informatician and head of the Bioinformatics Centre at the Institute of Microbial Technology .-Early years and Education:...
  
  , scientist.
• August 10 - Phoolan Devi
  Phoolan Devi
  Phoolan Devi , popularly known as the "Bandit Queen", was an Indian dacoit and later a politician. After being gang-raped by some upper-caste members of her gang, Phoolan Devi turned a bandit, and killed 22 upper-caste villagers in 1981. Following this, she became notorious across India as a bandit...
  
  , bandit turned politician, assassinated (d.2001
  2001 in India
  -Incumbents:* President of India – K. R. Narayanan* Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee-January:* 1 January - Calcutta officially becomes Kolkata, reverting to its precolonial name....
  
  ).
• December 4 - Javed Jaffrey, actor.

Deaths

• 13 April - Babu Gulabrai
  Babu Gulabrai
  Babu Gulabrai was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature.-Biography:...
  
  , writer and historian (b.1888
  1888 in India
  -Births:*17 January — Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian .*5 September — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India ....
  
  ).
• 2 December - Sabu Dastagir
  Sabu Dastagir
  Sabu Dastagir was a film actor of Indian origin—although he later took American citizenship. He was normally credited only by his first name, Sabu, and is primarily known for his work in film during the 1930s-40s in Britain and America.-Early life:Born in 1924 in Karapur, Mysore, Kingdom of...
  
  , actor (b.1924
  1924 in India
  -Events:*12 January - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after.*February - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds....
  
  ).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1963
  Bollywood films of 1963
  A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1963:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1963:-1963:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...