1971 in India

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Events in the year 1971 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah (until 21 January), Sarv Mittra Sikri (starting 22 January)

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
• Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
• Bihar –
  • until 20 January: Nityanand Kanungo
  • 21 January-31 January: U.N. Sinha
  • starting 1 February: Dev Kant Baruah
• Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
• Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
• Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
• Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
• Karnataka – Dharma Vira (starting 23 October)
• Kerala – V. Viswanathan
• Madhya Pradesh – K. Chengalaraya Reddy (until 7 March), Satya Narayan Sinha (starting 7 March)
• Maharashtra – P V Cherian (until 26 February), Ali Yavar Jung (starting 26 February)
• Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru
• Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
• Odisha – Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
• Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
• Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh
• Tamil Nadu – Sardar Ujjal Singh (until 25 May), Kodardas Kalidas Shah (starting 26 May)
• Uttar Pradesh – Bezawada Gopala Reddy
• West Bengal – Shanti Swaroop Dhavan (until 21 August), Anthony Lancelot Dias (starting 21 August)

Events[]

Richard Nixon and Indira Gandhi, 4 November 1971

• 25 January – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state and East Punjab is reduced to its current form as Doaba.
• 19 April – The provisional government of Bangladesh exiled flees to West Bengal.
• 25 August – The former East Pakistan and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.
• 29 September – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in Orissa State in India, kills 10,000.
• 3 December – 17 December: India and Pakistan fight their second major war, over East Pakistan, which ends after 90,000 Pakistani troops surrender. The new nation of Bangladesh is created out of East Pakistan.
• 3 December – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as Pakistan attacks 9 Indian airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
• 3 December – 4 December night: The Indian navy destroyer INS Rajput sinks Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former USS Diablo).
• 16 December – Victory Day of Bangladesh: The Pakistan Army surrenders to the Joint Force i.e. Mukti Bahini (Freedom Force) and the Indian Armed Forces, officially ending the Bangladesh Liberation War and creating the new nation state of Bangladesh.

Sport[]

• India defeat West Indies in Port of Spain Trinidad for the first time ever to clinch the rubber 1-0. Sunil Gavaskar creates world record for scoring 774 runs in four tests. Ajit Wadekar was the Captain.

• Leslie Claudius (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
• 24 August - India defeat England in the third and the final Test at the Oval. This happens to be India's first victory ever on the English soil.^[1]

Births[]

• 4 February - Kothapalli Geetha, politician Member of Parliament from Araku
• 1 May – Ajith Kumar, Actor and motor racing driver.
• 21 June - Butta Renuka, politician and member of parliament from Kurnool.
• 4 July – Sivakumar Veerasamy, Scientist.
• 17 July – Soundarya, Actress (d.2004).
• 5 August – Jude Menezes, Field hockey player.
• 8 August – Ramandeep Singh, Field hockey player.
• 

  Pawan Kalyan
  2 September – Pawan Kalyan, Actor and film director.
• 19 November
  • Sundeep Malani, film director
  • Kiren Rijiju, politician, member of parliament from Arunachal West, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs.
• 

  Barkha Dutt
  18 December – Barkha Dutt, Television journalist.
• 25 December – Santhosh George Kulangara, Businessman.

Deaths[]

• Debaki Bose, film director, writer and actor (b. 1898).
• Keshavrao Date, actor (b. 1889).

See also[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1971

References[]