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See also: 1942 in India, other events of 1943, 1944 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 January to June 2.2 July to December 2.3 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• 10 February - 3 March - Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
• 30 December - Subhash Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair.

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 1 January - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, scientist.
• 30 March - J. J. Rawal, astrophysicist and scientific educator.
• 26 May - Manorama, actress.
• 2 June - Ilaiyaraaja, film composer, singer and lyricist.

[edit] July to December

• 13 July - E. Harikumar, novelist and short story writer.
• 11 August - Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan.
• 31 October - G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
• 11 November - Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Prameela Devi, actress (d.2002).