1977 in India

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Events in the year 1977 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until 11 February, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. ^[1]
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 24 March, Morarji Desai. ^[2]
• Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray (until 27 January), Mirza Hameedullah Beg (starting 27 January)

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh –
  • until 17 February: Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
  • 17 February-5 May: B. J. Divan
  • starting 5 May: Sharda Mukherjee
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Jagannath Kaushal
• Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
• Haryana – Jaisukh Lal Hathi (until 23 September), Harcharan Singh Brar (starting 23 September)
• Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti (until 16 February), Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (starting 16 February)
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Uma Shankar Dikshit (until 2 August), Govind Narain (starting 2 August)
• Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo (until 10 October), Jothi Venkatachalam (starting 10 October)
• Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha (until 13 October), N. N. Wanchu (starting 13 October)
• Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until )
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha –
  • until 7 February: Shiva Narayan Shankar
  • 7 February-22 September: Harcharan Singh Brar
  • starting 22 September: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
• Punjab –
  • until 1 September: Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
  • 1 September-24 September: Ranjit Singh Narula
  • starting 24 September: Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan –
  • until 15 February: Sardar Jogendra Singh
  • 15 February-17 May: Vedpal Tyagi
  • starting 17 May: Raghukul Tilak
• Sikkim – B. B. Lal
• Tamil Nadu –
  • until 8 April: Mohan Lal Sukhadia
  • 9 April-26 April: P. Govindan Nair
  • starting 26 April: Prabhudas Patwari
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Marri Chenna Reddy (until 1 October), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 1 October)
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - ₹1,040,235 million
• 18 January - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, via a radio broadcast, announced that the Lok Sabha would be dissolved and fresh elections would be held in March. ^{[3] [4]}
• 3 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned. ^[5]
• 24 March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister. ^[6]
• 25 March - T. V. Eachara Warrier filed Habeas corpus before Kerala High Court for knowing whereabouts of his son in connection with Rajan case.
• 27 May - Belchhi massacre: 11 villagers of Belchi, Bihar (includes 8 Dalits and 3 Sunar) were brutally murdered by terror gang from Kurmi/Bhumihar caste as part of caste violence. ^[7]
• 30 June - M. G. Ramachandran sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He became the first film actor to be the Chief Minister of an Indian state.
• 7 July – George Fernandes became Minister of Industries in Morarji Desai ministry. ^[8]
• 20 November – More than 10,000 people die when the 1977 Andhra Pradesh cyclone hits India's southeast coast. The storm disrupts life for 5.4 million people in 830 villages, and damages 14,000 km² of cropland. ^[9]
• 8 December - Morarji Desai Government digs out Time capsule buried by Indira Gandhi in Red Fort premises in 1973. ^[10]

Law

• 3 Jan - The 42nd amendment Act, 1976, was commenced.
• 21 March - Emergency was officially withdrawn. ^[11]

Births

• 

  Narain Karthikeyan

  14 January – Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driver
• 27 January – Deepshikha Nagpal, actress
• 31 January – Suchitra Singh, cricketer
• 5 February – Darez Ahamed, IAS
• 16 February – Darshan Thoogudeep, actor and film producer
• 21 February – Ranjith, singer and composer
• 15 March – Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Armed force officer (d. 2008).
• 4 April – Shamshuddin Ibrahim, model and actor

• 

  Anju Bobby George

  19 April – Anju Bobby George, athlete
• 24 May – Jeet Gannguli, singer, music director and score composer
• 25 May – Karthik Sivakumar, actor
• 19 June – Smita Sabharwal, Indian Administrative Service Officer
• 2 July – Ganesh, actor.
• 12 August – Siva, film director.
• 19 August – Suvaluxmi, actress.
• 27 August – Soori, actor and comedian.
• 29 August – Vishal Krishna, actor and film producer
• 29 August – P. V. Midhun Reddy, politician and former member of parliament from Rajampet
• 19 September - Vennela Kishore, actor, comedian and director.
• 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor.
• 19 November – Arun Vijay, actor.
• 24 November – Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player
• 20 December – Gauri Karnik, actress

Full date unknown

• Rajorshi Chakraborti, novelist.
• Vasundhara Das, actress and singer.

Deaths

• 11 February – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, fifth President of India (b. 1905)
• 22 March – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (b. 1904).
• 14 November – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder–acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896).

Full date unknown

• Hamid Dalwai, social reformer and writer (b. 1932).
• Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur'an (b. 1892).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1977

References

1. Venkatraman, Archana (27 July 2015). "As the venerated former President APJ Abdul Kalam passes away, here's a list of all Presidents of India". India Bulletin. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
2. "*** List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 to 2014". www.currentaffairsedu.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
3. "The abrupt end of Emergency". The Indian Express. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
4. Menon, Vandana (26 June 2018). "43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events". ThePrint. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
5. Besant, Annie (18 October 2014). "Nehru Centre Planetarium". Nehru Centre. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
6. "Shri Morarji Desai | Prime Minister of India". www.pmindia.gov.in. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
7. Farz, Ahmed (15 July 1977). "Caste differences claim more lives in Bihar than any other state in India". India Today. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
8. Ramagundam, Rahul (2022). The Life and Times of George Fernandes. Penguin Random House India. p. 345. ISBN   978-0670092888.
9. The storm in Orissa. The Economist, 00130613, 11/6/1999, Vol. 353, Issue 8144
10. "Fact Check: Indira Gandhi's 1973 time capsule was unearthed more than 40 years ago!". India Today. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
11. Menon, Vandana (26 June 2018). "43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events". ThePrint. Retrieved 29 September 2020.