Template:Year in India 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]
- Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray (until 27 January), Mirza Hameedullah Beg (starting 27 January)
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh –
- Assam –
- Bihar –
- Gujarat –
- Haryana –
- Himachal Pradesh –
- Jammu and Kashmir –
- Karnataka –
- Kerala –
- Madhya Pradesh –
- Maharashtra –
- Manipur –
- Meghalaya –
- Nagaland –
- Odisha –
- Punjab –
- Rajasthan –
- Sikkim –
- Tamil Nadu –
- Tripura –
- Uttar Pradesh –
- West Bengal –
Events
- 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]
- March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.[5]
- 21 March - Emergency was officially withdrawn.[4]
- 3 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned.[6]
- 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.[7]
Births
File:Narain Karthikeyan 2011 Malaysia2.jpg 14 January – Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driverNarain Karthikeyan - 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
- 4 April – Shamshuddin Ibrahim, model and actor
File:15Anju-Bobby-George1 (cropped).jpg 19 April – Anju Bobby George, athleteAnju Bobby George - 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
- 29 August – Vishal Krishna, actor and film producer
- 29 August – P. V. Midhun Reddy, politician and former member of parliament from Rajampet
- 18 October – Jyothika, actress
- 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor
- 24 November – Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player
- 16 December - Avishek Baksi,
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Corporate Executive
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
References
- ↑ As the venerated former President APJ Abdul Kalam passes away, here's a list of all Presidents of India, Venkatraman, Archana. India Bulletin(27 July 2015). Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ *** List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 to 2014. www.currentaffairsedu.com. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ The abrupt end of Emergency. The Indian Express(2014-08-04). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events, Vandana Menon. ThePrint(2018-06-26). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ↑ Shri Morarji Desai | Prime Minister of India. www.pmindia.gov.in. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ↑ Nehru Centre Planetarium, Besant, Annie. Nehru Centre(18 October 2014). Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ The storm in Orissa. The Economist, 00130613, 11/6/1999, Vol. 353, Issue 8144