1964 in India

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

Incumbents[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until May 4), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting May 4)
Assam – Vishnu Sahay
Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
Gujarat –
Karnataka –
Kerala –
Madhya Pradesh –
Maharashtra –
Nagaland –
Odisha –
Punjab –
Rajasthan –
Uttar Pradesh –
West Bengal –

Events[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Births[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Bem Le Hunte, author.

Deaths[edit | edit source]

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

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Incumbents[edit | edit source]

Governors[edit | edit source]

Events[edit | edit source]

Arts and literature[edit | edit source]

Sport[edit | edit source]

Births[edit | edit source]

Full date unknown[edit | edit source]

Deaths[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]