1975 in India

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← 1974 1973 1972 1975 in India → 1976 1977 1978
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Events in the year 1975 in the Republic of India.

Sports[]

• India won the Men's Hockey World Cup first time. It was held in kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Incumbents[]

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai (until 25 January), S. Obul Reddy (starting 25 January)
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
• Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
• Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (until 27 March), Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (starting 27 March)
• Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia (until 10 January), Uma Shankar Dikshit (starting 10 January)
• Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo
• Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
• Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha – Akbar Ali Khan
• Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
• Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
• Sikkim – B. B. Lal (starting 18 May)
• Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events[]

• 19 January – The 6.8 M_s  Kinnaur earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Forty-seven people were killed.
• 19 March – Indira Gandhi became the first Prime Minister of India to testify in a court. She appeared before Allahabad High Court in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain case.^[1]
• 19 April – The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, goes into Earth's orbit.
• 16 May – Sikkim annexed to India after a deposing the monarchy.
• 12 June – Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha declared PM Indira Gandhi's election to parliament from Rae Bareli (Lok Sabha constituency) in 1971 Indian general election null and void.
• 25 June – A state of emergency is declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during which the press is censored and 100,000 are jailed.
• 27 December – The Chasnala mining disaster kills 375 people when an explosion in a coal mine causes catastrophic flooding.

Births[]

January to June[]

• 

  Suriya
  1 January – Sonali Bendre, actress.
• 

  Preity Zinta
  31 January – Preity Zinta, actress.
• 17 March – Puneeth Rajkumar, actor and son of .
• 

  Akshaye Khanna
  28 March – Akshaye Khanna, actor and son of Vinod Khanna.
• 17 May – Dinesh Nayak, field hockey player.
• 26 May – Abbas, actor.
• 4 June – Bhuvaneshwari, actress.
• 
  8 June – Shilpa Shetty, actress.
• 25 June – Manoj Kumar Pandey, Military personnel. (d. 1999).

July to December[]

• 6 July – Jeevan (Tamil actor)
• 12 July – D. Roopa, Police Service.
• 23 July – Suriya, actor.
• 

  Mahesh Babu
  9 August – Mahesh Babu, actor.
• 16 September – Pushkar Singh Dhami, Politician and 10th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
• 28 August – Eijaz Khan, actor.
• 28 August – Anuj Nayyar, Military officer. (d. 1999)
• 16 October – Rajeev Khandelwal, actor.
• 11 November – Diwakar Pundir, actor.
• 

  Sushmita Sen
  19 November – Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1994, actress.
• 9 December – Priya Gill, actress.
• 14 December – Sukhbir Singh Gill, field hockey player.

Deaths[]

• 

  Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  17 April – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (b. 1888).

See also[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1975

References[]