1964 in India

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Last updated September 20, 2024

Incumbents

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
Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar

Governors

Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until May 4), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting May 4)
Assam – Vishnu Sahay
Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh
Kerala – V. V. Giri
Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (until 18 October), P V Cherian (starting 14 November)
Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (until 4 May), Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (starting 4 May)
Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

National income - ₹268,953 million
January 4 - The lost relic recovered in connection with 1963 Hazratbal Shrine theft.
April 8 - Jammu and Kashmir (state) withdrew the Kashmir Conspiracy Case from a special court.^[1]
April 11 - Thirty two Council members walks out of Communist Party of India National Council resulting in the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India.
May 27 – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
July 1 - IDBI Bank was established through an Act of Parliament.
August 29 - The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.
October 30 - Sirima–Shastri Pact signed to grant citizenship to almost 9 lakhs Tamils based in Ceylon.^[2]

Law

The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India

Arts and literature

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

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

Births

9 January – Arjun, actor.
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.
19 May – Murali, actor. (died 2010).
1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident).
22 October – Amit Shah, politician.
13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
26 August – Ilavarasu, cinematographer and actor.
10 September – Ramesh Aravind, actor and director.
23 September – Ponvannan, actor and director.
29 October – Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.^[3]
14 November – Manoj Singh Mandavi, politician (died 2022).

Full date unknown

Bem Le Hunte, author.

Deaths

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. 1887).
10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor (b. 1925).

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References

↑ "Let the Sheikh try". The Indian Express. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
↑ Phadnis, Urmila; Kumar, Lalit (1975). "THE SIRIMAVO-SHASTRI PACT OF 1964: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION". India Quarterly. 31 (3): 249–269. ISSN 0974-9284.
↑ "List of IAS officers" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.

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[1] "Let the Sheikh try". The Indian Express. 23 August 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[2] Phadnis, Urmila; Kumar, Lalit (1975). "THE SIRIMAVO-SHASTRI PACT OF 1964: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION". India Quarterly. 31 (3): 249–269. ISSN 0974-9284.

[3] "List of IAS officers" . Retrieved 31 May 2023.

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