1963 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

  Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

• Supreme Court of India mandates that reservation should not exceed 50% for any institution.
• Theft of the Holy Relic from the Hazratbal Shrine

  Births

• 29 April – Deepika Chikhalia, actress.
• 25 May – Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, scientist.
• 2 June - Anand Abhyankar, Marathi Actor.
• 30 July - Abhijith, actor.
• 10 August – Phoolan Devi, bandit turned politician, assassinated.
• 13 August – Sridevi, Actress.
• 17 August – S. Shankar, director.
• 20 October – Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian opening batsman.
• 4 December – Javed Jaffrey, actor.

  Full date unknown

• Keshava Malagi, writer.

  Deaths

• 13 April – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian.
• 30 30 October - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian Freedom Fighter, Orator, Politician.
• 24 November - Marotrao Kannamvar, Politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• 2 December – Sabu Dastagir, actor.

  Full date unknown

• Amar Nath Kak, lawyer and author.