1968 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1968 in the Federal Republic of India.

Incumbents

President of India – Zakir Hussain
Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
Chief Justice of India – Kailas Nath Wanchoo (until 24 February), Mohammad Hidayatullah (starting 24 February)

Governors

Events

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February – The Beatles, Mia Farrow, and several other celebrities visit the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India to study transcendental meditation.
Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits (untouchables) burnt to death on 25 December, in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu.

Auroville(city of dawn) established in Puducherry.

National Textile Corporation established

Tata Consultancy Services established.

The three language formula for states.

Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi mehendi ceremony at Harivansh Rai Bachchan's Willingdon Crescent home. They got married on 28 February.

India will not sign the NPT said PM Indira Gandhi in Rae Bareilly.

Births

10 January Atul Khatri , comedian
21 January - Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Carnatic vocalist
1 March – Kunjarani Devi, weightlifter.
Arshad Warsi
19 April – Arshad Warsi, actor.
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Raju Narayana Swamy
24 May – Raju Narayana Swamy, IAS officer.
14 June – Raj Thackeray, founder and president of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
Dhanraj Pillay
16 July – Dhanraj Pillay, field hockey player.
15 August – Anil Kumar Awana, politician.
9 September – Gagandeep Singh Bedi, IAS.
29 September – Samir Soni, actor.
9 November – Neelam, former actress, jewellery designer.

Full date unknown

Abu Salem, mobster.

Deaths

A. R. Krishnashastry, writer, researcher and translator (born 1890).
19 November – Shri Rang Avadhoot, Saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord Dattatreya, (born 1898 in India)

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