1974 in India

India-related events during the year of 1974

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Events in the year 1974 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* National income - ₹793,779 million

### January - March[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 1 January – Abha Dawesar, novelist.
* 9 January – Farhan Akhtar, actor.
* 7 January – Varun Badola, actor.
* Hrithik Roshan10 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 Batra20 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 Kapoor25 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* List of Bollywood films of 1974

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* Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
* Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
* Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
* Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
* Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
*   *   *   * Palestine
*   * Taiwan
* Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
*   * Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
* Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

Dependencies, colonies
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*   *   * British Indian Ocean Territory
*   * Brunei
* Christmas Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

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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.
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