1972 in India

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Events in the year 1972 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak
• Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
• Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
• Bihar – Dev Kant Baruah
• Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
• Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
• Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
• Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
• Karnataka – Dharma Vira (until 1 February), Mohanlal Sukhadia (starting 1 February)
• Kerala – V. Viswanathan
• Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
• Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung
• Manipur – B. K. Nehru (starting 21 January)
• Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru
• Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
• Odisha –
  • until 30 June: Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
  • 1 July-8 November: Sardar Yojendra Singh
  • starting 8 November: Basappa Danappa Jatti
• Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
• Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh (until 1 July), Sardar Jogendra Singh (starting 1 July)
• Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
• Tripura – B. K. Nehru
• Uttar Pradesh –
  • until 30 June: Bezawada Gopala Reddy
  • 1 July-13 November: Shashi Kant Varma
  • starting 14 November: Akbar Ali Khan
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - ₹552,453 million

January - June

• 21 January – Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya gets statehood.
• 19 March – India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, after the withdrawal of the Indian troops.
• 14 June - Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashed at Palam, Delhi killing 82 of the 87 on board.
• 26 June - Reserve Bank of India fixes buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.2910 and £5.2632 per Rs. 100 following the Government of the United Kingdom decision to float Pound sterling on 23 June. However the central rate remain unchanged at £5.2721 per Rs. 100. ^[1]

July - December

• 2 July – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic bilateral Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes peacefully.
• 4 July - Reserve Bank of India revises buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.3333 and £5.3050 per Rs. 100 and kept central rates unchanged.
• 10 July – A stampede of elephants kills 24 people in the Chandaka Forest, Orissa. ^[2]
• 17 October - M. G. Ramachandran, forms the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by splitting from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam starting a new phase in Dravidian movement. ^[3]
• 19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company. ^[4]
• 15 November - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was formed for independent statehood of Jharkhand from Bihar on birthday of Birsa Munda

Law

• 5 April - Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers (Amendment) Act amended to include new states and union territories of Northeast India.
• 15 August - Postal Index Number (PIN Code) introduced in India.
• 9 September - Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 enacted.
• 31 October – Supreme Court of India began hearing of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala case. ^[5]

Births

• 

  Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy

  24 February – Pooja Bhatt, actress, producer and director.
• 28 March – Eby J. Jose, journalist and human rights activist
• 15 April – Mandira Bedi, actress, model and television presenter.
• 20 April – Mamta Kulkarni, actress.
• 17 May – T. Udhayachandran, IAS.

• 

  John Abraham

  

  Sourav Ganguly

  8 July – Sourav Ganguly, cricketer. ^[6]
• 28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
• 28 July – Rakhee Gupta, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. ^[7]
• 17 November – Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
• 18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor

• 

  T. Udhayachandran

  17 December – John Abraham, actor.
• 21 December – Jagan Mohan Reddy, politician.
• 26 December – Hari Gopalakrishnan, film director.

Deaths

• 31 March – Meena Kumari, actress (b. 1932).
• 14 April – George Reddy, Student and PDSU leader at OU campus Hyderabad (b. 1947).
• 29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director (b. 1906).
• 20 July – Geeta Dutt, playback singer (b. 1930).
• 24 August – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, freedom fighter and Tamil poet (b. 1888).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1972

References

1. Verghese, S. K. (1973). "International Monetary Crises and the Indian Rupee". Economic and Political Weekly. 8 (30): 1342–1348. ISSN   0012-9976.
2. "July 10 in history: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested, mass killing of stampeding elephants, and more". WION. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
3. Ramakrishnan, T. (18 October 2021). "A look at the events leading up to the birth of AIADMK". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 16 January 2022.
4. Mitra, Sumit (24 July 1983). "Jayanti Dharma Teja: An unheralded comeback". India Today. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
5. Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN   0195648889.
6. "Sourav Ganguly". Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
7. "List of IAS officers" . Retrieved 1 August 2023.