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| 1984 |
| | | Indira Gandhi is assassinated in Delhi by members of her Sikh bodyguard, in retaliation for the desecration of the Golden Temple | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Rajiv Gandhi succeeds his mother as leader of the Congress party and prime minister of India | |
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| 1984 |
| | | More than 2000 die in the Indian city of Bhopal when toxic gas escapes from a Union Carbide plant | |
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| 1988 |
| | | 35-year-old Benazir Bhutto, daughter of the executed president, leads a coalition government in Pakistan | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed on corruption charges and her party loses the resulting elections | |
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| 1991 |
| | | Rajiv Gandhi is killed near Chennai, during an election campaign, by a suicide bomber on behalf of Tamil militants | |
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| 1993 |
| | | Vikram Seth publishes his novel A Suitable Boy, a family saga in post-independence India | |
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| 1993 |
| | | After only three years in opposition, Benazir Bhutto wins a second term as prime minister of Pakistan | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Benazir Bhutto is dismissed from government in Pakistan for a second time, again on corruption charges | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Indian author Arundhati Roy publishes her first novel, The God of Small Things | |
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