1972 in India

• 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

• 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

• National income - {{INR}}552,453 million

• 21 January – Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya gets statehood.
• 19 March – India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, after the withdrawal of the Indian troops.
• 26 March – Mathura rape case.
• 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.{{Cite journal |last=Verghese |first=S. K. |date=1973 |title=International Monetary Crises and the Indian Rupee |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4362898 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=8 |issue=30 |pages=1342–1348 |issn=0012-9976}}

• 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.{{Cite web |title=July 10 in history: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested, mass killing of stampeding elephants, and more |url=https://www.wionews.com/photos/july-10-in-history-martin-luther-king-jr-arrested-mass-killing-of-stampeding-elephants-and-more-397113 |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=WION |language=en}}
• 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.{{Cite news|last=Ramakrishnan|first=T.|date=2021-10-18|title=A look at the events leading up to the birth of AIADMK|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/a-look-at-the-events-leading-up-to-the-birth-of-aiadmk/article37046741.ece|access-date=2022-01-16|issn=0971-751X}}
• 19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company.{{Cite web |date=24 July 1983 |first=Sumit |last=Mitra |title=Jayanti Dharma Teja: An unheralded comeback |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/19830331-jayanti-dharma-teja-an-unheralded-comeback-770561-2013-07-24 |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=India Today |language=en}}
• 15 November - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was formed for independent statehood of Jharkhand from Bihar on birthday of Birsa Munda

• 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.{{Cite book |last=Austin |first=Granville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ |title=Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0195648889 |pages=260 |language=en}}

• File:The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.jpg]]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.
• File:Sundar Pichai - 2023 (cropped).jpg]]10 June – Sundar Pichai, CEO Alphabet Inc.
• File:JohnAbraham.jpg]]File:Sourav Ganguly crop.jpg]]8 July – Sourav Ganguly, cricketer.{{Cite web|title=Sourav Ganguly|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28779.html|access-date=2021-01-16|website=Cricinfo}}
• 28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
• 17 November {{ndash}} Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
• 18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor
• File:Udhayachandran T.jpg]]17 December – John Abraham, actor.
• 21 December – Jagan Mohan Reddy, politician.
• 26 December {{ndash}} Hari Gopalakrishnan, film director.

• 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).

• List of Bollywood films of 1972

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