1974 in India

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Events in the year 1974 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – V. V. Giri (until 24 August), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (after 24 August)
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak until 30 August; B.D. Jatti
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
• Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
• Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
• Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia
• 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 –
  • until 20 August: Basappa Danappa Jatti
  • 21 August-25 October: Gati Krushna Misra
  • starting 25 October: Akbar Ali Khan
• Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
• Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
• Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan (until 25 October), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 25 October)
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - ₹793,779 million

January - March

• 3 January - A protest against 20% canteen fee hike in Lalbhai Dalpatbhai College of Engineering, Ahmedabad turns into clashes with Police and later transformed to Navnirman Andolan. ^[1]
• 5 January – Worli riots occurred in the chawl in the Worli neighborhood of Mumbai. The tensions prevailed till April.
• January – May smallpox epidemic in East India.
• 19 February - Drillship Sagar Samrat struck oil at Bombay High, 160 km off the shore. ^[2]
• 16 March – Navnirman Andolan (Re-construction movement) a socio-political movement started in 1973 December in Gujarat by students and middle-class against economic crisis and corruption in public life. The movement ended with the dissolution of the elected government of Chimanbhai Patel. ^[3]
• 18 March – Bihar Movement started as a movement by students in Bihar led by the veteran Gandhian socialist Jayaprakash Narayan, against misrule and corruption in the Government of Bihar.
• 25 March – Gaura Devi and 27 women confronted loggers in Chamoli district in connection with Chipko movement.
• 28 March - Minister of Food and Agriculture Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed announced that Government of India has decided to scrap take over of wholesale wheat distribution. ^[4]

April - December

• 8 May – A railway strike started by 1.7 million workers of Indian Railways. The strike lasted for 20 days till 27 May 1974 and was the largest recorded industrial action in the world. ^{[5] [6]}
• 18 May – Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon in the Thar Desert, and becomes the sixth nation to do so. ^[7]
• 28 June - Sirima–Gandhi Pact signed to solve the statelessness of Sri Lankan Tamils. ^{[8] [9]}
• 5 July - Colaba area of Bombay registers intense rainfall of 57.5 cms in 24 hours. ^[10]
• 11–17 November - 1974 Indian Open held at Bombay.

Births

• 1 January – Abha Dawesar, novelist.
• 9 January – Farhan Akhtar, actor.
• 7 January – Varun Badola, actor.

• 

  Hrithik Roshan

  10 January – Hrithik Roshan, actor.
• 25 February – Divya Bharti, actress (died 1993).
• 28 February – Sunil (actor), actor and comedian.
• 8 March – Fardeen Khan, actor.
• 14 March – Rohit Shetty, film director.
• 22 April – Chetan Bhagat, novelist.
• 23 April – Shwetha Menon, actor.

• 

  Vikram Batra

  20 May – Shiboprosad Mukherjee, film director, writer and actor.
• 28 May – Mayur Puri, screenwriter, lyricist, actor, filmmaker.
• 30 May – Mohan Raja, film director.
• 7 June – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player.

• 

  Vijay (actor)

  22 June – Joseph Vijay, actor and playback singer.
• 22 June – Devayani, actress.

• 

  Karishma Kapoor

  25 June – Karisma Kapoor, actress.
• 15 July – Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, kargil hero. (died 1999).
• 5 August – Kajol, actress.
• 9 September – Vikram Batra, Indian Army-KARGIL HERO. (died 1999).
• 25 September – AR Murugadoss, film director.
• 23 October – Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.

VVS Laxman

• 1 November – V. V. S. Laxman, cricketer.
• 9 November – Manav Gohil, television actor ^[11]
• 19 December – MVP, Writer & Author.
• 21 December – Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Indian Forest Service officer.
• 25 December – Nagma, actress and politician.

Deaths

• 4 February – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (b. 1894).
• 11 February – Ghantasala, Telugu Play Back Singer (b.1922).
• 23 September – Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist (b. 1919).
• 6 October – V. K. Krishna Menon, nationalist and politician (b. 1897).
• 16 October – Chembai, Carnatic music singer (b. 1895).
• 16 October – Edasseri Govindan Nair, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1906).
• J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (b. 1926).
• Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (b. 1896).
• Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter, politician and in Uttar Pradesh, became first woman to be elected Chief Minister of a state (b. 1908).
• Matthew Pothen Thekaekara, scientist (b. 1914).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1974

References

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2. "ONGC - Mumbai High blossomed from depth of 962 meters on Well H-1-1 this day in 1974 – a new era dawned!!". www.ongcindia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
3. "Nav-nirman Andolan of Gujarat, 1973-74: A new awakening". India Today. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
4. Weinraub, Bernard (29 March 1974). "India Ending Take‐Over Of Distribution of Wheat". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 17 April 2022.
5. "It was 1974 total strike of Railways that first showed India what life was without trains". The Indian Express. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
6. "Better jail than rail: George Fernandes' slogan that led to Asia's biggest railway strike in 1974". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
7. "First Nuclear Test at Pokhran in 1974 - India Nuclear Forces". nuke.fas.org. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
8. Premkumar, Rohan (25 January 2020). "Fifty years on, Citizenship Amendment Act brings new fears to Tamils repatriated from Sri Lanka". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 17 April 2022.
9. Phadnis, Urmila (1967). "The Indo-Ceylon Pact and the "Stateless" Indians in Ceylon". Asian Survey. 7 (4): 226–236. doi:10.2307/2642476. ISSN   0004-4687.
10. Ahuja, Poonam (6 August 2020). "Mumbai records its second highest all-time rainfall after 1974". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
11. "Happy Birthday to Manav, Shalini, Payal, Malhar, Pankaj and Tanvi". tellychakkar.com. 9 November 2012. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.