1972 in India
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{{Year in India|1972}}
Events in the year 1972 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
=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 - {{INR}}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.
- 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}}
= 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.{{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
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.{{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}}
Births
- 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.
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
References
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