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Events in the year 1976 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[]
- President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray
Governors[]
- Andhra Pradesh –
- until 10 January: S. Obul Reddy
- 10 January-15 June: Mohanlal Sukhadia
- starting 15 June: Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
- Assam – L. P. Singh
- Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
- Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
- Haryana –
- until 26 March: Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
- 27 March-13 August: Ranjit Singh Narula
- starting 13 August: Jaisukh Lal Hathi
- Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
- Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
- Karnataka – Uma Shankar Dikshit
- Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo
- Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
- Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung (until 11 December), vacant thereafter (starting 11 December)
- Manipur – L.P. Singh
- Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
- Nagaland – L.P. Singh
- Odisha – Akbar Ali Khan (until 17 April), (starting 17 April)
- Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
- Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
- Sikkim – B. B. Lal
- Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah (until 15 June), Mohan Lal Sukhadia (starting 15 June)
- Tripura – L. P. Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
- West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias
Events[]
- 16 April – A family planning initiative involves the vasectomy of thousands of men and tubal ligation of women, either for payment or under coercive conditions. (The minimum age for marriage is also raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.) The son of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, is largely blamed for what turned out to be a failed program.[1] A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues (in part) into the 21st century.[2]
Births[]
January to June[]
- 5 February – Abhishek Bachchan, actor.
Abhishek Bachchan - 4 April – Simran Bagga, actress.
- 9 April – Rohit Gupta, writer and inventor.
- 9 April – Nithin Sathya, actor.
- 21 May – Aditi Gowitrikar, model, actress and physician.
- 9 June – Amisha Patel, actress.
Amisha Patel - 29 June – Saurabh Kalia, Military officer-KARGIL HERO. (d. 1998).
July to December[]
- 20 July – Debashish Mohanty, cricketer.
- 12 August – Baljit Singh Saini, field hockey player.
- 27 October – Pooja Batra, actress.
- 19 September – Ishaa Koppikar, actress and model.
- 14 November – Hemang Badani, cricketer.
- 15 December – Baichung Bhutia, soccer player.
Baichung Bhutia
Deaths[]
- 25 January – Swami Anand, Gandhi activist and writer (b. 1887)
- 28 July – T. Nagi Reddy, communist politician (b. 1917).
- 27 August – Mukesh, playback singer (b. 1923).
Mukesh - 2 September – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (b. 1898).
References[]
- ^ "The Indira enigma". Frontline. 11 May 2001. Archived from the original on 10 November 2006. Retrieved 28 July 2006.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Male involvement and contraceptive methods for men". Frontline. September 1996. Retrieved 28 July 2006.
See also[]
Categories:
- 1976 in India
- 1976 by country
- Years of the 20th century in India