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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

President of India – Zakir Hussain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July (acting president), Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August (acting president), V. V. Giri
Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

Governors

Events taken place in 1969

18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots
Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
Rajdhani Express was introduced in 1969.
14 banks nationalized by Indira Gandhi
India was close to insolvency in 1969
ISRO was set up
CISF came into existence in 1969

Births

24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army.
21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army.
7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
Vishwanathan Anand
11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

Full date unknown

Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.

Deaths

31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (born 1894).
10 January -Sampurnanand, writer and politician (born 1891).
23 February – Madhubala, actress (born 1933).
3 May – Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India (born 1897).
13 June - Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement (born 1898).
28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (born 1920).

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 *28 July – [[Annabhau Sathe]], social reformer and writer (born 1920).