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{{Year in India|1977}}<br />
Events in the year '''1977 in the Republic of India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[President of India]] – [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]] until 11 February, [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indianewsbulletin.com/list-of-all-presidents-of-india-since-india-becane-a-republic-from-rajendra-prasad-to-pranab-mukherjee|title=As the venerated former President APJ Abdul Kalam passes away, here's a list of all Presidents of India|last=Venkatraman|first=Archana|date=27 July 2015|website=India Bulletin|access-date=3 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505200138/http://www.indianewsbulletin.com/list-of-all-presidents-of-india-since-india-becane-a-republic-from-rajendra-prasad-to-pranab-mukherjee|archive-date=5 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
* [[Prime Minister of India]] – [[Indira Gandhi]] until 24 March, [[Morarji Desai]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.currentaffairsedu.com/list-of-prime-ministers-of-india-from-1947-to-2014/|title=*** List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 to 2014|website=www.currentaffairsedu.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128160820/http://www.currentaffairsedu.com/list-of-prime-ministers-of-india-from-1947-to-2014/|archive-date=28 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – [[Ajit Nath Ray]] (until 27 January), [[Mirza Hameedullah Beg]] (starting 27 January)<br />
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===Governors===<br />
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Gujarat|Gujarat]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Haryana|Haryana]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Himachal Pradesh|Himachal Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir|Jammu and Kashmir]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Manipur|Manipur]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Meghalaya|Meghalaya]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Nagaland|Nagaland]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Sikkim|Sikkim]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Tripura|Tripura]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] –<br />
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==Events==<br />
*18 January - [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Indira Gandhi]], via a radio broadcast, announced that the [[Lok Sabha]] would be dissolved and fresh elections would be held in March.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-08-04|title=The abrupt end of Emergency|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-abrupt-end-of-emergency/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
*March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following [[Indira Gandhi]]'s defeat at the general elections. [[Morarji Desai]] becomes prime minister.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/former_pm/shri-morarji-desai-2/|title=Shri Morarji Desai {{!}} Prime Minister of India|website=www.pmindia.gov.in|language=en|access-date=2017-05-03}}</ref><br />
*21 March - [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] was officially withdrawn.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Vandana Menon|date=2018-06-26|title=43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events|url=https://theprint.in/india/governance/43-years-of-emergency-a-timeline-of-events/74568/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
*3 March – [[Nehru Planetarium]] commissioned.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nehru-centre.org/planetarium/ |title=Nehru Centre Planetarium |last=Besant |first=Annie |date=18 October 2014 |website=Nehru Centre |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127022804/http://www.nehru-centre.org/planetarium/ |archive-date=27 November 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=3 May 2017 }}</ref><br />
*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&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> of cropland.<ref>The storm in Orissa. ''The Economist'', 00130613, 11/6/1999, Vol. 353, Issue 8144</ref><br />
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==Births==<br />
*[[File:Narain Karthikeyan 2011 Malaysia2.jpg|thumb|131x131px|[[Narain Karthikeyan]]]]14 January – [[Narain Karthikeyan]], motor racing driver<br />
*27 January – [[Deepshikha Nagpal]], actress<br />
*31 January – [[Suchitra Singh]], cricketer<br />
*5 February – [[Darez Ahamed]], IAS<br />
*16 February – [[Darshan (actor)|Darshan Thoogudeep]], actor and film producer<br />
*21 February – [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]], singer and composer<br />
*15 March – [[Sandeep Unnikrishnan]], Armed force officer<br />
*4 April – [[Shaam (actor)|Shamshuddin Ibrahim]], model and actor<br />
*[[File:15Anju-Bobby-George1 (cropped).jpg|thumb|157x157px|[[Anju Bobby George]]]]19 April – [[Anju Bobby George]], athlete<br />
*24 May – [[Jeet Gannguli]], singer, music director and score composer<br />
*25 May – [[Karthi|Karthik Sivakumar]], actor<br />
*19 June – [[Smita Sabharwal]], Indian Administrative Service Officer<br />
*2 July – [[Ganesh (actor)|Ganesh]], actor<br />
*29 August – [[Vishal (actor)|Vishal Krishna]], actor and film producer<br />
*29 August – [[P. V. Midhun Reddy]], politician and former member of parliament from [[Rajampet (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rajampet]]<br />
*18 October – [[Jyothika]], actress<br />
*18 October – [[Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1977)|Kunal Kapoor]], actor<br />
*24 November – [[Dilip Tirkey]], field hockey player<br />
*16 December - [[Avishek Baksi]], <br />
Corporate Executive<br />
===Full date unknown===<br />
*[[Rajorshi Chakraborti]], novelist.<br />
*[[Vasundhara Das]], actress and singer.<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
*11 February – [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]], [[List of Presidents of India|fifth]] [[President of India]] (b. 1905)<br />
*22 March – [[A. K. Gopalan]], [[communism|communist]] leader (b. 1904).<br />
*14 November – [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], founder–acharya of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]] (b. 1896).<br />
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===Full date unknown===<br />
*[[Hamid Dalwai]], social reformer and writer (b. 1932).<br />
*[[Abdul Majid Daryabadi]], [[Muslim]] writer and exegete of the [[Qur'an]] (b. 1892).<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Bollywood films of 1977]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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