1972 in India
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Year 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 - Template:INR552,453 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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- 19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 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.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>
Births
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy - 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.
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- 28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
- 17 November Template:Ndash Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
- 18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor
T. Udhayachandran - 21 December – Jagan Mohan Reddy, politician.
- 26 December Template: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).