# 1962 in India

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The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Rajendra Prasad until 13 May, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
* Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
* Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan until 13 May; Zakir Husain
* Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 8 September), Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 8 September)
* Assam – Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until 7 September), Vishnu Sahay (starting 7 September)
* Bihar – Zakir Hussain (until 11 May), M. A. S. Ayyangar (starting 11 May)
* Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
* Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
* Kerala – V. V. Giri
* Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
* Maharashtra –
** until 16 April: Sri Prakasa
** 16 April-6 October: P. Subbarayan
** starting 28 November: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
* Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (until 15 September), Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 15 September)
* Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (until 1 October), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting 1 October)
* Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh (until 16 April), Sampurnanand (starting 16 April)
* Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (until 15 April), Bishwanath Das (starting 15 April)
* West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

## Events

* National income - ₹200,769 million
* 10 February - Indian National Committee for Space Research set up with Vikram Sarabhai from Physical Research Laboratory leading it.
* 3 April – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.
* 6 May – India defeats the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final of 1962 Davis Cup at New Delhi
* 28 July – A locust swarm threatens New Delhi.
* 21 September – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
* 10 October – Beginning of the Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (between India and the People's Republic of China).
* 20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and illegally captured Aksai Chin thereby starting the Sino-Indian War.
* 26 October - Emergency enforced in India for the first time following the Sino-Indian War.
* 21 November – China withdraws troops from Arunachal Pradesh and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line.
* 19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India.
* Internment of Chinese-Indians at Deoli, Rajasthan

## Law

* 28 October – Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962 promulgated as ordinance.
* The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India

## Births

* 1 January – Ravi Raghavendra, actor.
* 17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer.
* 12 February – Jagapathi Babu, actor.
* 12 February – Kanal Kannan, actor, action choreographer and screenwriter.
* 17 March – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American Astronaut and First Indian women to go to space. (died 2003).
* 31 March – Ramki, actor.
* 3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician.
* 7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer.
* 13 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman, 11th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect
* 27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer.
* 5 June – C. Sylendra Babu, Indian Police Service Officer.
* 14 June – Jayaprakash, actor and producer
* 9 June – N. K. Senthamarai Kannan, Indian Police Service Officer.
* 3 July – U. Sagayam, former career Indian civil servant
* 6 July – Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada.
* 12 July – Shiva Rajkumar, actor and producer.
* 4 August – Thalaivasal Vijay, actor and dubbing artist
* 10 August – Atiq Ahmed, gangster and politician. (d. 2023)
* 15 August – Arjun Sarja, actor, producer and director.
* 25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director. (d. 2021)
* 4 September – Kiran More, cricketer.
* 16 November – Ambika, actress.

### Full date unknown

* Sucheta Dalal, finance journalist.
* Madhavi, actress.

## Deaths

* 11 June – Chhabi Biswas, actor (b. 1900).
* 1 July – Bidhan Chandra Roy, second Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1882).
* 4 December – Annapurnanand, Hindi writer (B 21 Sep. 1895)

### Full date unknown

* K. C. Dey, actor (b. 1893).