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{{Year in India|1966}}
Events in the year '''1966 in the Republic of India'''.

==Incumbents==
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| [[File:Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg|50px]]
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| [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
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| rowspan=3|[[Prime Minister of India]]
| [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] (Prime Minister until 11 January)
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| [[Gulzarilal Nanda]] until 24 January (acting Prime Minister)
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| rowspan=3|[[Chief Justice of India]]
| [[P. B. Gajendragadkar]] until 24 January
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| [[Amal Kumar Sarkar]] 15 March – 29 June
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| [[Koka Subba Rao]] starting 30 June
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=== Governors ===
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| [[Governor of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]]
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| [[Governor of Assam|Assam]]
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| [[Governor of Bihar|Bihar]]
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| [[Governor of Gujarat|Gujarat]]
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| [[Governor of Haryana|Haryana]]
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| [[Governor of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]]
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| [[Governor of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]]
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| [[Governor of Karnataka|Karnataka]]
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| [[Governor of Kerala|Kerala]]
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| [[Governor of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]]
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| [[Governor of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]]
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| [[Governor of Nagaland|Nagaland]]
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| [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]]
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| [[Governor of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]]
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==Events==
* 3 January – Prime Minister of India [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] and President of Pakistan [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] agree to the [[Tashkent Declaration]], a peace pact mediated by the Soviet Premier [[Alexei Kosygin]] in [[Tashkent]], Uzbek S.S.R.<ref name=Vereshchagin2Oct2013>Anton Vereshchagin, "[https://archive.today/20141002104856/http://in.rbth.com/arts/2013/10/02/lal_bahadur_shastris_death_in_tashkent_still_raises_questions_29837.html Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent still raises questions]" ([www.webcitation.org/6WmcYM836 archived]), ''Russia & India Report'', 2 October 2013.</ref>
* 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in [[Tashkent]].<ref name=Vereshchagin2Oct2013 />
* 19 January – Supported by provincial [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] chief ministers, [[Indira Gandhi]] becomes prime minister.
*24 January - [[Air India Flight 101]] crashed into [[Mont Blanc]] killing the 117 passengers including [[Homi J. Bhabha]] who was in the flight. There was a similar aviation accident in the same spot in 1950.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-16|title=Explained: Why a melting French glacier has thrown up decades-old Indian newspapers|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/melting-french-glacier-copies-of-decades-old-indian-newspapers-6507243/|access-date=2021-07-29|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>
* 28 March – [[Indira Gandhi]] visits [[Washington, D.C.]]
* 19 June: [[Shiv Sena]] founded by [[Bal Thackeray]].
* 12 July – [[Indira Gandhi]] visits Moscow.
* 27 August – [[Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India]] takes effect.<ref name=Bhardwaj1995>R. C. Bhardwaj, ''Constitution Amendment in India''; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.</ref>
* 17 November – [[Reita Faria]], [[Femina Miss India]] is crowned [[Miss World 1966]], the first Indian to win the title.
* 11 December – [[Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India]] takes effect.<ref name=Bhardwaj1995 />
* 22 December – [[Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India]] takes effect.<ref name=Bhardwaj1995 />
* 29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.<ref>N. T. Krishna Kishore, "[http://www.ijsrp.org/research_paper_mar2012/ijsrp-Mar-2012-70.pdf Enhancement of Production by Development of Resources in Critical Production Operations in Multi Crop Seed Conditioning Unit]"; ''International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications'' 2.3, March, 2012.</ref>

==Sport==
* [[Krishan Lal]], ([[field hockey]] player) is awarded the [[Padma Shri]].

==Births==
* 11 January – [[Sunil Kumar Mahato]], politician, assassinated (d.[[2007]]).
* 22 January - [[Kesineni Srinivas]], politician and member of parliament from [[Vijayawada (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vijayawada]].
* 28 January – [[Anjani Kumar]], 1990 batch IPS officer
* 24 March - [[Galla Jayadev]], politician and member of parliament from [[Guntur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Guntur]].
* 17 April – [[Vikram (actor)|Vikram]], actor.
* 3 May – [[Firdous Bamji]], actor.
* 14 July – [[Sachin Puthran]], entrepreneur.
* 28 August – [[Priya Dutt]], politician.
* 1 September - [[Sonam Wangchuk (engineer)|Sonam Wangchuk]], Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
* 30 October – [[K. V. Anand]], cinematographer and film director (d. [[2021]])
* 5 December – [[Dayanidhi Maran]], politician.

===Full date unknown===
* [[Raj Kamal Jha]], novelist and journalist.
* September – [[Faisal Khan]], actor.

==Deaths==
* 11 January – [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]], politician and 2nd [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1904).
* 21 January – [[Dr. Manubhai P. Vaidya]], Educationist and recipient of Best Teacher Award from [[Dr. S. Radhakrishnan]], The [[President of India]] (b. 1905).
* [[Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak]], poet, novelist and short story writer (b. 1921).
* 24 January – [[Homi J. Bhabha]], Indian nuclear physicist.
* 26 February - [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]], Indian Freedom Fighter, Extremist (b. 1883).

== See also ==
* [[Bollywood films of 1966]]
* [[:Category:1966 establishments in India]]

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