1984 in India

"See also:"
1983 in India,
other events of 1984,
1985 in India and the
Timeline of Indian history.

Events

*5 March - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders Operation Blue Star to flush out separatist militants from Harimandir Sahib, the most sacred shrine of Sikhism.
*2 April - Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the "Soyuz T-11".
*13 April - India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
*5 June - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
*6 June - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, killing an estimated 2000 people.
*31 October - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards. Riots soon break out in New Delhi, and some 2,700 Sikhs are killed. Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
*3 December - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

Births

*4 January - Jeeva, actor.
*24 March - Adrian D'Souza, field hockey player.
*16 July - Katrina Kaif, actress.
*24 August - Shanthnoo Bhagyaraj, actor.
*27 October - Irfan Pathan, cricketer.

Deaths

*10 March - I. S. Johar, actor, writer, producer and director (b.1920).
*6 June - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Sikh theologian and leader (b.1947).
*31 October - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister, assassinated (b.1917).