# 1975 in India

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Events in the year 1975 in the Republic of India.

## Sports

* India won the Men's Hockey World Cup first time. It was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

## Incumbents

* President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
* Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
* Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
* Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai (until 25 January), S. Obul Reddy (starting 25 January)
* Assam – L. P. Singh
* Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
* Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
* Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (until 27 March), Birendra Narayan Chakraborty (starting 27 March)
* Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
* Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
* Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia (until 10 January), Uma Shankar Dikshit (starting 10 January)
* 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 – Akbar Ali Khan
* Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
* Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
* Sikkim – Bipen Behari Lal (starting 18 May)
* Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
* Tripura – L. P. Singh
* Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
* West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

## Events

* National income - ₹852,124 million
* 19 January – The 6.8 M$_s$  Kinnaur earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Forty-seven people were killed.
* 19 March – Indira Gandhi became the first Prime Minister of India to testify in a court. She appeared before Allahabad High Court in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain case.
* 10 April - State Council (Sikkim) unanimously voted to abolish Monarchy of Chogyal and merge with India.
* 14 April - 1975 Sikkimese monarchy referendum held and obtained 97.75%approval.
* 19 April – The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, goes into Earth's orbit.
* 21 April - Farakka Barrage across Ganges commissioned in West Bengal.
* 12 June – Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha declared PM Indira Gandhi's election to parliament from Rae Bareli (Lok Sabha constituency) in 1971 Indian general election null and void.
* 25 June – A state of emergency is declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during which the press is censored and 100,000 are jailed.
* 27 December – The Chasnala mining disaster kills 375 people when an explosion in a coal mine causes catastrophic flooding.

## Law

* 25 April - Kerala Legislative Assembly passed the Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act, 1975, for restoring land rights to tribals.
* 15 May – 35th amendment of the Constitution of India ratifies statehood for Sikkim and deposing of Chogyal monarchy.

## Births
### January to June

* Suriya
* 1 January
** Sonali Bendre, actress
** Kamaal Rashid Khan, actor and internet celebrity
* 2 January – Rupal Patel, actress
* 8 January – Harris Jayaraj, film composer.
* Preity Zinta31 January – Preity Zinta, actress.
* 17 March – Puneeth Rajkumar, actor. (d. 2021).
* Akshaye Khanna28 March – Akshaye Khanna, actor and son of Vinod Khanna.
* 17 May – Dinesh Nayak, field hockey player.
* 26 May – Abbas, actor.
* 4 June – Bhuvaneshwari, actress.
* ROOPA IPS8 June – Shilpa Shetty, actress.
* 25 June – Manoj Kumar Pandey, Military personnel. (d. 1999).

### July to December

* 6 July – Jeevan (Tamil actor)
* 12 July – D. Roopa, Police Service officer.
* 23 July – Suriya, actor.
* Mahesh Babu9 August – Mahesh Babu, actor.
* 16 September – Pushkar Singh Dhami, Politician and 10th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
* 28 August – Eijaz Khan, actor.
* 28 August – Anuj Nayyar, Military officer. (d. 1999)
* 16 October – Rajeev Khandelwal, actor.
* 7 November – Venkat Prabhu, film director and actor.
* 11 November – Diwakar Pundir, actor.
* Sushmita Sen19 November – Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1994, actress.
* 9 December – Priya Gill, actress.
* 14 December – Sukhbir Singh Gill, field hockey player. (d. 2024)
* 15 December – Siddhaanth Vir Surryavanshi, actor (d. 2022)
* 21 December – Srijato, poet

## Deaths

* 25 March – Deiva Zivarattinam, politician (b. 1894)
* 17 April – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (b. 1888).
* 14 July – Madan Mohan, composer (b. 1924)
* 13 September – Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Carnatic singer and musicologist (b. 1897)