# 1977 in India

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Events in the year 1977 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

* President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until 11 February, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
* Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 24 March, Morarji Desai.
* Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti
* Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray (until 27 January), Mirza Hameedullah Beg (starting 27 January)

### Governors

* Andhra Pradesh –
** until 17 February: Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
** 17 February-5 May: B. J. Divan
** starting 5 May: Sharda Mukherjee
* Assam – L. P. Singh
* Bihar – Jagannath Kaushal
* Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
* Haryana – Jaisukh Lal Hathi (until 23 September), Harcharan Singh Brar (starting 23 September)
* Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti (until 16 February), Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (starting 16 February)
* Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
* Karnataka – Uma Shankar Dikshit (until 2 August), Govind Narain (starting 2 August)
* Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo (until 10 October), Jothi Venkatachalam (starting 10 October)
* Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha (until 13 October), N. N. Wanchu (starting 13 October)
* Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until )
* Manipur – L.P. Singh
* Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
* Nagaland – L.P. Singh
* Odisha –
** until 7 February: Shiva Narayan Shankar
** 7 February-22 September: Harcharan Singh Brar
** starting 22 September: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
* Punjab –
** until 1 September: Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
** 1 September-24 September: Ranjit Singh Narula
** starting 24 September: Jaisukh Lal Hathi
* Rajasthan –
** until 15 February: Sardar Jogendra Singh
** 15 February-17 May: Vedpal Tyagi
** starting 17 May: Raghukul Tilak
* Sikkim – B. B. Lal
* Tamil Nadu –
** until 8 April: Mohan Lal Sukhadia
** 9 April-26 April: P. Govindan Nair
** starting 26 April: Prabhudas Patwari
* Tripura – L. P. Singh
* Uttar Pradesh – Marri Chenna Reddy (until 1 October), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 1 October)
* West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

## Events

* National income - ₹1,040,235 million
* 18 January - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, via a radio broadcast, announced that the Lok Sabha would be dissolved and fresh elections would be held in March.
* 3 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned.
* 24 March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.
* 25 March - T. V. Eachara Warrier filed Habeas corpus before Kerala High Court for knowing whereabouts of his son in connection with Rajan case.
* 27 May - 11 villagers of Belchi, Bihar (includes 8 Dalits and 3 Sunar) were brutally murdered by terror gang from Kurmi/Bhumihar caste as part of caste violence.
* 30 June - M. G. Ramachandran sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He became the first film actor to be the Chief Minister of an Indian state.
* 7 July – George Fernandes became Minister of Industries in Morarji Desai ministry.
* 20 November – More than 10,000 people die when the 1977 Andhra Pradesh cyclone hits India's southeast coast. The storm disrupts life for 5.4 million people in 830 villages, and damages 14,000 km$^2$ of cropland.
* 8 December - Morarji Desai Government digs out Time capsule buried by Indira Gandhi in Red Fort premises in 1973.

## Law

* 3 Jan - The 42nd amendment Act, 1976, was commenced.
* 21 March - Emergency was officially withdrawn.

## Births

* Narain Karthikeyan14 January – Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driver
* 27 January – Deepshikha Nagpal, actress
* 31 January – Suchitra Singh, cricketer
* 5 February – Darez Ahamed, IAS
* 16 February – Darshan Thoogudeep, actor and film producer
* 21 February – Ranjith, singer and composer
* 15 March – Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Armed force officer (d. 2008).
* 4 April – Shamshuddin Ibrahim, model and actor
* Anju Bobby George19 April – Anju Bobby George, athlete
* 24 May – Jeet Gannguli, singer, music director and score composer
* 25 May – Karthik Sivakumar, actor
* 19 June – Smita Sabharwal, Indian Administrative Service Officer
* 2 July – Ganesh, actor.
* 12 August – Siva, film director.
* 19 August – Suvaluxmi, actress.
* 27 August – Soori, actor and comedian.
* 29 August – Vishal Krishna, actor and film producer
* 29 August – P. V. Midhun Reddy, politician and former member of parliament from Rajampet
* 19 September - Vennela Kishore, actor, comedian and director.
* 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor.
* 19 November – Arun Vijay, actor.
* 24 November – Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player
* 20 December – Gauri Karnik, actress

### Full date unknown

* Rajorshi Chakraborti, novelist.
* Vasundhara Das, actress and singer.

## Deaths

* 11 February – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, fifth President of India (b. 1905)
* 22 March – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (b. 1904).
* 14 November – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder–acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896).

### Full date unknown

* Hamid Dalwai, social reformer and writer (b. 1932).
* Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur'an (b. 1892).