1975 in India

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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 ^{[ citation needed ]}

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
• 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 – Bipen Behari Lal (starting 18 May)
• Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - ₹852,124 million
• 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]
• 10 April - State Council (Sikkim) unanimously voted to abolish Monarchy of Chogyal and merge with India. ^[2]
• 14 April - 1975 Sikkimese monarchy referendum held and obtained 97.75%approval.
• 19 April – The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, goes into Earth's orbit.
• 21 April - Farakka Barrage across Ganges commissioned in West Bengal.
• 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. ^[3]
• 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.

Law

• 25 April - Kerala Legislative Assembly passed the Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act, 1975, for restoring land rights to tribals. ^[4]
• 15 May – 35th amendment of the Constitution of India ratifies statehood for Sikkim and deposing of Chogyal monarchy.

Births

January to June

• 

  Suriya

• 1 January
  • Sonali Bendre, actress ^[5]
  • Kamaal Rashid Khan, actor and internet celebrity
• 2 January – Rupal Patel, actress
• 8 January – Harris Jayaraj, film composer.

• 

  Preity Zinta

  31 January – Preity Zinta, actress.
• 17 March – Puneeth Rajkumar, actor. (d. 2021).

• 

  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.

• 

  ROOPA IPS

  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 officer.
• 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.
• 7 November – Venkat Prabhu, film director and 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. (d. 2024)
• 15 December – Siddhaanth Vir Surryavanshi, actor (d. 2022)
• 21 December – Srijato, poet

Deaths

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

• 25 March – Deiva Zivarattinam, politician (b. 1894)
• 17 April – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (b. 1888).
• 14 July – Madan Mohan, composer (b. 1924)
• 13 September – Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Carnatic singer and musicologist (b. 1897)

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1975

References

1. "Four reasons why Indira Gandhi declared Emergency". The Indian Express. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
2. "Behind Sikkim's Firm Aversion to a Darjeeling Merger Is Two Centuries of Politics". The Wire. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
3. "A judgment of great courage: CJI on Allahabad HC's 1975 verdict disqualifying then PM Indira Gandhi". India Today. Press Trust of India. 12 September 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
4. "After Tamil cinema, Malayalam film Pada demands land rights for the oppressed". The News Minute. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
5. "10 throwback photos of birthday girl Sonali Bendre that will make you drool over her beauty". Times Now News. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.