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Events in the year 1974 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

  • President of India – V. V. Giri (until 24 August), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (after 24 August)
  • Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
  • Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

Governors[]

Events[]

  • December 1973 - March 1974 – Navnirman Andolan (Re-construction movement) was a socio-political movement in 1974 in Gujarat by students and middle-class against economic crisis and corruption in public life. It resulted in dissolution of the elected government of the state at that time.
  • January - April - Worli riots refers to the violence that occurred in the chawl in the Worli neighborhood of Mumbai between January and April 1974.
  • January - May smallpox epidemic
  • March 1974 - June 1975 - Bihar Movement was a movement initiated by students in Bihar in 1974 and led by the veteran Gandhian socialist Jayaprakash Narayan, against misrule and corruption in the Government of Bihar.
  • 18 May – Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon in the Thar Desert, and becomes the sixth nation to do so.
  • May - 1974 railway strike in India was a major strike by the workers of Indian Railways. The strike lasted from 8 to 27 May 1974. The 20 day strike by 1.7 million workers is the largest recorded industrial action in the world.

Births[]

  • 1 January – Abha Dawesar, novelist.
  • 9 January – Farhan Akhtar, actor.
  • 7 January – Varun Badola, actor.
  • Hrithik Roshan
    10 January – Hrithik Roshan, actor.
  • 25 February – Divya Bharti, actress (died 1993).
  • 8 March – Fardeen Khan, actor.
  • 22 April – Chetan Bhagat, novelist.
  • 23 April – Shwetha Menon, actor.
  • Vikram Batra
    20 May - Shiboprosad Mukherjee, film director, writer and actor.
  • Sanjiv Chaturvedi
    28 May – Mayur Puri, screenwriter, lyricist, actor, filmmaker.
  • 7 June – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player.
  • 22 June – Joseph Vijay, actor and playback singer.
  • Karishma Kapoor
    25 June – Karisma Kapoor, actress.
  • 15 July – Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, kargil hero. (died 1999).
  • 5 August – Kajol, actress.
  • 9 September – Vikram Batra, Indian Army-KARGIL HERO. (died 1999).
  • 23 October – Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.
  • VVS Laxman
    1 November – V. V. S. Laxman, cricketer.
  • 19 December – MVP, Writer & Author.
  • 21 December – Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Indian Forest Service officer.

Deaths[]

  • 4 February – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (b. 1894).
  • 11 February – Ghantasala, (b.).
  • 23 September – Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist (b. 1919).
  • 6 October – V. K. Krishna Menon, nationalist and politician (b. 1897).
  • 16 October – Chembai, Carnatic music singer (b. 1895).
  • 16 October – Edasseri Govindan Nair, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1906).
  • J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (b. 1926).
  • Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (b. 1896).
  • Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter, politician and in Uttar Pradesh, became first woman to be elected Chief Minister of a state (b. 1908).
  • Matthew Pothen Thekaekara, scientist (b. 1914).

See also[]

  • Bollywood films of 1974
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