# 1972 in India

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Events in the year 1972 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – V. V. Giri
* Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
* Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak
* Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
* Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
* Bihar – Dev Kant Baruah
* Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
* Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
* Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
* Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
* Karnataka – Dharma Vira (until 1 February), Mohanlal Sukhadia (starting 1 February)
* Kerala – V. Viswanathan
* Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
* Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung
* Manipur – B. K. Nehru (starting 21 January)
* Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru
* Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
* Odisha –
** until 30 June: Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
** 1 July-8 November: Sardar Yojendra Singh
** starting 8 November: Basappa Danappa Jatti
* Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
* Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh (until 1 July), Sardar Jogendra Singh (starting 1 July)
* Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah
* Tripura – B. K. Nehru
* Uttar Pradesh –
** until 30 June: Bezawada Gopala Reddy
** 1 July-13 November: Shashi Kant Varma
** starting 14 November: Akbar Ali Khan
* West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

## Events

* National income - ₹552,453 million

### January - June

* 21 January – Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya gets statehood.
* 19 March – India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, after the withdrawal of the Indian troops.
* 14 June - Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashed at Palam, Delhi killing 82 of the 87 on board.
* 26 June - Reserve Bank of India fixes buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.2910 and £5.2632 per Rs. 100 following the Government of the United Kingdom decision to float Pound sterling on 23 June. However the central rate remain unchanged at £5.2721 per Rs. 100.

### July - December

* 2 July – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic bilateral Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes peacefully.
* 4 July - Reserve Bank of India revises buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.3333 and £5.3050 per Rs. 100 and kept central rates unchanged.
* 10 July – A stampede of elephants kills 24 people in the Chandaka Forest, Orissa.
* August - Expulsion of Indians from Uganda
* 17 October - M. G. Ramachandran, forms the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by splitting from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam starting a new phase in Dravidian movement.
* 19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company.
* 15 November - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was formed for independent statehood of Jharkhand from Bihar on birthday of Birsa Munda

## Law

* 5 April - Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers (Amendment) Act amended to include new states and union territories of Northeast India.
* 15 August - Postal Index Number (PIN Code) introduced in India.
* 9 September - Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 enacted.
* 31 October – Supreme Court of India began hearing of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala case.

## Births

* Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy24 February – Pooja Bhatt, actress, producer and director.
* 28 March – Eby J. Jose, journalist and human rights activist
* 15 April – Mandira Bedi, actress, model and television presenter.
* 20 April – Mamta Kulkarni, actress.
* 17 May – T. Udhayachandran, IAS.
* 25 May - Karan Johar,actor,host,director and producer.
* Sundar Pichai10 June – Sundar Pichai, CEO Alphabet Inc.
* John AbrahamSourav Ganguly8 July – Sourav Ganguly, cricketer.
* 28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
* 17 November – Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
* 18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor
* T. Udhayachandran17 December – John Abraham, actor.
* 21 December – Jagan Mohan Reddy, politician.
* 26 December – Hari Gopalakrishnan, film director.

## Deaths

* 31 March – Meena Kumari, actress (b. 1932).
* 14 April – George Reddy, Student and PDSU leader at OU campus Hyderabad (b. 1947).
* 29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director (b. 1906).
* 20 July – Geeta Dutt, playback singer (b. 1930).
* 24 August – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, freedom fighter and Tamil poet (b. 1888).