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Events in the year1991 in the Republic of India.

The year 1991 was a watershed moment in the history ofEconomy of India. It was the year in which India formally announced its shift towardsLiberalization,Privatization andGlobalization from hitherto existedMixed economy that was predominantly aPlanned economy.

• President of India –R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India –Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June,P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Vice President of India –Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Chief Justice of India –
  • until 24 November –Ranganath Misra
  • 25 November-12 December –Kamal Narain Singh
  • starting 13 December –Madhukar Hiralal Kania

• Andhra Pradesh –Krishan Kant
• Arunachal Pradesh –
  • until 16 March:Devi Das Thakur
  • 16 March-25 March:Loknath Mishra
  • starting 25 March:Surendranath Dwivedy
• Assam –Devi Das Thakur (until 17 March),Loknath Mishra (starting 17 March)
• Bihar –
  • until 13 February:Mohammad Saleem
  • 14 February-18 March:B. Satya Narayan Reddy
  • starting 18 March:Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
• Goa –Khurshed Alam Khan (until 17 March),Bhanu Prakash Singh (starting 18 March)
• Gujarat –Sarup Singh
• Haryana –Dhanik Lal Mandal
• Himachal Pradesh –Virendra Verma
• Jammu and Kashmir –Girish Chandra Saxena
• Karnataka –Bhanu Pratap Singh
• Kerala –B. Rachaiah
• Madhya Pradesh –M. A. Khan
• Maharashtra –C. Subramaniam
• Manipur –Chintamani Panigrahi
• Meghalaya –Madhukar Dighe (starting 8 May)
• Mizoram –Swaraj Kaushal
• Nagaland –M. M. Thomas
• Odisha –Yagya Dutt Sharma
• Punjab –Om Prakash Malhotra (until 7 August),Surendra Nath (starting 7 August)
• Rajasthan –Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya (until 26 August),Sarup Singh (starting 26 August)
• Sikkim –Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
• Tamil Nadu –Surjit Singh Barnala (until 14 February),Bhishma Narain Singh (starting 14 February)
• Tripura –K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
• Uttar Pradesh –B. Satya Narayan Reddy
• West Bengal –Saiyid Nurul Hasan

• National income -₹6,622,605 million
• 1 January -Minister of Civil AviationHarmohan Dhawan declaresThiruvananthapuram Airport asInternational airport.
• 6 January – TheAll India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers is founded inUdaipur.
• 21 May –Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: FormerPrime MinisterRajiv Gandhi isassassinated by aLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelamsuicide bomber inSriperumbudur nearChennai inTamil Nadu during the election campaign.
• 31 May – TheGovernment of India constitutes theCompany 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 leaderP.V. Narasimha Rao becomesPrime Minister.
• 24 June –J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
• 24 July – TheGovernment of India announces itsNew Industrial Policy, marking the start ofEconomic liberalisation in India.
• 6 August -Tsundur massacre ofDalits inAndhra Pradesh.
• 17 October –1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during aRamlilaHindu celebration inRudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.^[1]
• 20 October – The 6.8 M_w Uttarkashi earthquake shook northern India with a maximumMercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 768–2,000 and injuring 1,383–1,800.
• October -Shiv Sena workers led byShishir Shinde vandalisedWankhede StadiumCricket pitch to stop a cricket match betweenIndia andPakistan.^[2][3]
• 11 December –Rapid Action Force established by Union Home Ministry.
• 12 December -Anti Tamil riots in South Karnataka

• 11 January -Shweta Basu Prasad, actress.
• 26 January –Vijay Shankar, cricketer.
• 16 February –Mayank Agarwal, cricketer.
• 11 March –Poonam Pandey, model.
• 24 March –Krunal Pandya, cricketer.
• 7 May –Gaurav Chaudhary, YouTuber^[4]
• 29 June –D. Karthika Anagha, Carnatic classical vocalist.
• 15 July –Rajisha Vijayan, actress.

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  31 July –Kiara Advani, actress.

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  9 August –Hansika Motwani, actress.
• 5 September –Honey Rose, actress.
• 27 September –Amzad Ali, cricketer.
• 16 October –Shardul Thakur, cricketer.
• 18 October –Jaydev Unadkat, cricketer.
• 26 October –Amala Paul, actress.

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  30 November –Nivetha Pethuraj, actress.

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  6 December –Karun Nair, Indian cricketer.

• 21 February –Nutan, Bollywood actress
• 15 May –Kalindi Charan Panigrahi, poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist (born 1901)

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  21 May –Rajiv Gandhi, prime minister (1984–1989), Bharat Ratna (1991) (born 1944)
• 24 October –Ismat Chughtai, writer (born 1915)

• Bollywood films of 1991

• 1991 in India
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