India, year by year
India in 1997
Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.
- Prime Ministers
- H. D. Deve Gowda (until 21 April 1997)
I. K. Gujral (from 21 April 1997) - Presidents
- Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 25 July 1997)
K. R. Narayanan (from 25 July 1997) - 10 grams of gold (24K)
- ₹4,725yearly figure, BankBazaar
- One US dollar
- ₹36.31official yearly average, World Bank
- ₹100 in 1997
- ≈ ₹529 in 2025by India's consumer price index, World Bank
- Highest-grossing Indian film
- Dil To Pagal Haiworldwide gross, per Wikipedia
- Population
- 99.9 croreWorld Bank
- Life expectancy at birth
- 61 yearsWorld Bank
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Make a 1997 posterSources: World Bank, SP.POP.TOTL (India); World Bank, PA.NUS.FCRF — official exchange rate, rupees per US$, yearly average; World Bank, FP.CPI.TOTL — consumer price index (2010 = 100), yearly average; World Bank, SP.DYN.LE00.IN — life expectancy at birth; Wikipedia, "List of highest-grossing Indian films" — highest-grossing film by year (worldwide gross); BankBazaar, "Historical Gold Rate/Trend in India" — 24K gold, ₹ per 10 g, yearly figure. Prime Ministers, Presidents and events checked against Wikipedia. Money figures are yearly.