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Events in the year 2011 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

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India President Pratibha Patil
India Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
India Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia

Governors

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Post Name
Andhra Pradesh E. S. L. Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh Joginder Jaswant Singh
Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Bihar Devanand Konwar
Chhattisgarh Shekhar Dutt
Goa Shivinder Singh Sidhu (until 27 August)
Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (starting 27 August)
Gujarat Kamala Beniwal
Haryana Jagannath Pahadia
Himachal Pradesh Urmila Singh
Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand M. O. H. Farook (until 3 September)
Syed Ahmed (starting 3 September)
Karnataka Hansraj Bhardwaj
Kerala R. S. Gavai (until 7 September)
M. O. H. Farook (starting 7 September)
Madhya Pradesh Rameshwar Thakur (until 7 September)
Ram Naresh Yadav (starting 7 September)
Maharashtra Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
Manipur Gurbachan Jagat
Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
Mizoram M. M. Lakhera (until 2 September)
Vakkom Purushothaman (starting 2 September)
Nagaland Nikhil Kumar
Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Punjab Shivraj Vishwanath Patil
Rajasthan Shivraj Patil
Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu Surjit Singh Barnala (until 30 August)
Konijeti Rosaiah (starting 30 August)
Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi
Uttarakhand Margaret Alva
West Bengal M.K. Narayanan

Events

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  • National income - ₹87,363,287 million

January - June

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June - December

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Date unknown

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Sports

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Main article: 2011 in Indian sports

Athletics

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  • 3 January – National School Athletics Meet begin at Pune

Cricket

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Domestic season

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International

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Test matches

  • India – South Africa 3 Test Series, December 2010 – January 2011 (Result Drawn 1-1).[68]
  • India – West Indies 3 Test Series, June – July 2011 (Result India 1-0).[69]
  • India – England 4 Test Series, July – August 2011 (Result England 4-0).[70]
  • West Indies – India 3 Test Series, November 2011 (Result India 2-0).[71]
  • India – Australia 4 Test Series, December 2011 – January 2012 (Result Australia 4-0).[72]

One Day matches

  • India – South Africa 5 match Series, January 2011 (Result South Africa 3-2).[73]
  • Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Yousuf Raza Gilani interacting with the Indian Cricket Team before the World Cup semi-final match, at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium, in Mohali on March 30, 2011.
    India wins ICC world cup 2011 defeating Sri Lanka in finals.[74]
  • India – West Indies 5 match Series, June 2011 (Result India 3-2).[75]
  • India – England 5 match Series, September 2011 (Result England 3-0).
  • England – India 5 match Series, October 2011 (Result India 5-0).[76]
  • West Indies – India 5 match Series, November – December 2011 (Result India 4-1).[77]

T-20 matches

  • West Indies v India at Port of Spain – 4 June 2011.[78]
  • England v India at Manchester – 31 August 2011.[79]
  • India v England at Kolkata – 29 October 2011.[80]

Football

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Senior

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Youth

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Deaths

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January – April

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May – December

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Major Public Holidays

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  • 26 January – Republic Day (National holiday)
  • 20 February – Maha Shivaratri (Hindu Holiday)
  • 8 March – Holi (Hindu Holiday)
  • 4 April – Gudi Padwa (Hindu New Year)
  • 15 August – Independence Day (National holiday)
  • 19 August – Pateti (Parsi New Year)
  • 21 August – Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu Holiday)
  • 31 August – Eid ul-Fitr (Islam Holiday)
  • 1 September – Ganesh Chaturthi (First day of 10 days long Ganesh Festival)
  • 11 September – Anant Chaturdashi (Ganesh Visharjan/Last Day of 10 days long Ganesh Festival)
  • 2 October – Gandhi Jayanti (National holiday)
  • 6 October – Dassera (Hindu Holiday)
  • 26 October – Diwali (Hindu Holiday)
  • 7 November – Bakrid (Islam Holiday)
  • 10 November – Guru Nanak Jayanti (Sikh Holiday)
  • 25 December – Christmas (Christian Holiday)

See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2011 in India.

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