1972 in India

1972 in India
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.
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
24 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.
8 July – Sourav Ganguly, cricketer.
28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
17 November Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor
17 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).
See also
List of Bollywood films of 1972
References
India
Years of the 20th century in India
1970s in India
1972 in Asia