1964 in India

Template:Year in region Events in the year 1964 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru until 27 May, Gulzarilal Nanda until 9 June (acting Prime Minister), Lal Bahadur Shastri
Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar

Governors

Assam –
Bihar –
Gujarat –
Karnataka –
Kerala –
Madhya Pradesh –
Maharashtra –
Nagaland –
Odisha –
Punjab –
Rajasthan –
Uttar Pradesh –
West Bengal –

Events

27 May – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad is founded.
Hazratbal disappearance episode
The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India
IDBI Bank has established

Arts and literature

2 September – Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature.
National Film Archive of India established in Pune.

Sport

Charanjeet Singh (hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

20 January – Fareed Zakaria, journalist
16 February – Shrirang Barne, Politician, Member of Parliament from Maval constituency
30 April – Abhishek Chatterjee, Bengali film and television actor.
1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident).
13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
10 December – Jayaram, actor.

Full date unknown

Bem Le Hunte, author.

Deaths

27 May – Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889).
6 February – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, freedom fighter, social activist and Health Minister (b. 1889).
10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor (b. 1925).

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1964 in India

Contents

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths

See also