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Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 2009 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

PhotoPostName
PratibhaIndia.jpg Flag of India.svg President Pratibha Patil
Hamid ansari.jpg Flag of India.svg Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in WEF ,2009.jpg Flag of India.svg Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
K. G. Balakrishnan.jpg Flag of India.svg Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan

Governors

PostName
Andhra Pradesh N. D. Tiwari (until 28 December)
E. S. L. Narasimhan (starting 28 December)
Arunachal Pradesh Joginder Jaswant Singh
Assam Shiv Charan Mathur (until 25 June)
Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (26 June-27 July)
Syed Sibtey Razi (starting 27 July)
Bihar R. L. Bhatia (until 28 June)
Devanand Konwar (starting 28 June)
Chhattisgarh E. S. L. Narasimhan
Goa Shivinder Singh Sidhu
Gujarat Nawal Kishore Sharma (until 24 July)
S. C. Jamir (30 July-30 November)
Kamala Beniwal (starting 27 November)
Haryana Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (until 27 July)
Jagannath Pahadia (starting 27 July)
Himachal Pradesh Prabha Rau
Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (until 21 January)
M. O. H. Farook (starting 22 January)
Karnataka Rameshwar Thakur (until 24 June)
Hansraj Bhardwaj (starting 24 June)
Kerala R. S. Gavai (until 7 September)
M. O. H. Farook (starting 7 September)
Madhya Pradesh Balram Jakhar (until 29 June)
Rameshwar Thakur (starting 30 June)
Maharashtra S.C. Jamir
Manipur Gurbachan Jagat
Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
Mizoram M. M. Lakhera
Nagaland K. Sankaranarayanan (until 28 July)
Gurbachan Jagat (28 July-14 October)
Nikhil Kumar (starting 15 October)
Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
Punjab Sunith Francis Rodrigues (until 22 January)
Shivraj Vishwanath Patil (starting 22 January)
Rajasthan Shilendra Kumar Singh (until 1 December)
Prabha Rau (starting 2 December)
Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu Surjit Singh Barnala
Tripura Dinesh Nandan Sahay (until 14 October)
Kamla Beniwal (15 October-26 November)
Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil (starting 27 November)
Uttar Pradesh T. V. Rajeswar (until 27 July)
Banwari Lal Joshi (starting 27 July)
Uttarakhand Banwari Lal Joshi (until 6 August)
Margaret Alva (starting 6 August)
West Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi (until 14 December)
Devanand Konwar (starting 14 December)

Events

Manmohan Singh with American President Barack Obama at the White House, 24 November 2009 President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 2009-11-24(2).jpg
Manmohan Singh with American President Barack Obama at the White House, 24 November 2009
Chandrayaan-1, India's first uncrewed lunar probe, discovers large amounts of water on the Moon. Water Around Fresh Moon Crater.jpg
Chandrayaan-1, India's first uncrewed lunar probe, discovers large amounts of water on the Moon.

Deaths

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R. Venkataraman

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