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Events in the year1978 in the Republic of India.

• President of India –Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

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  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)

• 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

• National income -₹1,126,714 million
• 1 January –Air India Flight 855, aBoeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into theArabian Sea after taking off shortly nearBombay, 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 IndustriesGeorge 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.

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• 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,MTVVJ,Miss India 1997 (d.2004).

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  16 April –Lara Dutta, actress,Miss Universe in 2000.
• 5 May –Sandeep Baswana, actor.
• 25 June –Aftab Shivdasani, actor.

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

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  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

• 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).

• Bollywood films of 1978

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