# 1964 in India

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Events in the year 1964 in the Republic of India.
1964 cyclone

## Incumbents

* President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
* Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru until 27 May, Gulzarilal Nanda until 9 June (acting Prime Minister), Lal Bahadur Shastri
* Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
* Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until May 4), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting May 4)
* Assam – Vishnu Sahay
* Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
* Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
* Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh
* Kerala – V. V. Giri
* Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
* Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (until 18 October), P V Cherian (starting 14 November)
* Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
* Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
* Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (until 4 May), Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (starting 4 May)
* Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
* Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
* West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

## Events

* National income - ₹268,953 million
* January 4 - The lost relic recovered in connection with 1963 Hazratbal Shrine theft.
* April 8 - Jammu and Kashmir (state) withdrew the Kashmir Conspiracy Case from a special court.
* April 11 - Thirty two Council members walks out of Communist Party of India National Council resulting in the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India.
* May 27 – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
* July 1 - IDBI Bank was established through an Act of Parliament.
* August 29 - The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.
* October 30 - Sirima–Shastri Pact signed to grant citizenship to almost 9 lakhs Tamils based in Ceylon.

## Law

* The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India

## Arts and literature

* 2 September – Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature.
* National Film Archive of India established in Pune.

## Sport

* Charanjeet Singh (hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

## Births

* 9 January – Arjun, actor.
* 20 January – Fareed Zakaria, journalist
* 16 February – Shrirang Barne, politician, Member of Parliament from Maval constituency
* 30 April – Abhishek Chatterjee, Bengali film and television actor.
* 19 May – Murali, actor. (died 2010).
* 1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident).
* 22 October – Amit Shah, politician.
* 13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
* 26 August – Ilavarasu, cinematographer and actor.
* 10 September – Ramesh Aravind, actor and director.
* 23 September – Ponvannan, actor and director.
* 29 October – Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
* 14 November – Manoj Singh Mandavi, politician (died 2022).

### Full date unknown

* Bem Le Hunte, author.

## Deaths

* 27 May – Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889).
* 6 February – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, freedom fighter, social activist and Health Minister (b. 1887).
* 10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor (b. 1925).