1991 in India
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Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – R. Venkataraman
- Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao
- Chief Justice of India –
- until 24 November – Ranganath Misra
- 25 November-12 December – Kamal Narain Singh
- starting 13 December – Madhukar Hiralal Kania
Governors
- Arunachal Pradesh –
- until 16 March: Raja Gopal Singh
- 16 March-25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy
- Assam –
- Bihar –
- Goa –
- Gujarat –
- Haryana –
- Himachal Pradesh –
- Jammu and Kashmir –
- Karnataka –
- Kerala –
- Madhya Pradesh –
- Maharashtra –
- Manipur –
- Meghalaya –
- Mizoram –
- Nagaland –
- Odisha –
- Punjab –
- Rajasthan –
- Sikkim –
- Tamil Nadu –
- Tripura –
- Uttar Pradesh –
- West Bengal –
Events
- 6 January – The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded in Udaipur.
- 21 May – Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur near Chennai in Tamil Nadu during the election campaign.
- 31 May – The Government of India constitutes the Company Law Board as an independent quasi-judicial body thus giving up direct control on matters of company law.
- 15 June – When the general election results are all compiled, the Congress Party has won a plurality of votes.
- 21 June – Indian National Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister.
- 24 June – J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
- 24 July – The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
- 17 October – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.[1]
- 20 October – The 6.8 Mw Uttarkashi earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 768–2,000 and injuring 1,383–1,800.
- 11 December – Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.
Births
File:Karun nair.jpg 26 January – Vijay Shankar, cricketerKarun Nair - 16 February – Mayank Agarwal, cricketer
- 24 March – Krunal Pandya, cricketer
- 9 August – Hansika Motwani, actress
- 27 September – Amzad Ali, cricketer
- 16 October – Shardul Thakur, cricketer
- 26 October – Amala Paul, actress
- 6 December – Karun Nair, Indian cricketer
Deaths
File:Nutan Hindi Movie Actress (14).jpg 21 February – Nutan, Bollywood actressNutan - 15 May – Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (born 1901)
Rajiv Gandhi - 24 October – Ismat Chughtai, writer (born 1915)
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