21 April 1997Prime Minister of IndiaInder Kumar Gujral
I.K. Gujral becomes Prime Minister after the fall of the Deve Gowda government.
Historical records for India in 1997, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
I.K. Gujral becomes Prime Minister after the fall of the Deve Gowda government.
K.R. Narayanan takes office as the tenth President of India.
Uses the low luminosity of quiescent black hole binaries compared with neutron-star systems to argue for the observational presence of event horizons.
Gujral promotes a foreign-policy approach emphasising unilateral goodwill toward India's smaller South Asian neighbours.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam receives the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Publication of "The God of Small Things"
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