1988 in India

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Events in the year 1988 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi

Events

• The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission is set up under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.
• 1988 Bihar earthquake

Births

• 4 January - Nabila Jamshed, novelist.
• 25 January - Cheteshwar Pujara, cricketer.
• 20 February - Jiah Khan, actress.
• 12 September - Prachi Desai, actress.
• 22 September - Sana Saeed, actress and model.

• 2 December - Soniya Mehra, actress.
• 24 December - Piyush Chawla, cricketer.

Full date unknown

• Bhama, actress.

Deaths

• August - Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter (b.1900).
• 29 October - Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter (b.1903).
• 24 December - Jainendra Kumar, novelist (b.1905).
• 2 June - Raj Kapoor, legendary actor in Bollywood (b. 1924)

Full date unknown

• Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (b.1904).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1988

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