1976 in India

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Events in the year 1976 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Manipur –
• Meghalaya –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Sikkim –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Tripura –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• 16 April – A family planning initiative involves the vasectomy of thousands of men and tubal ligation of women, either for payment or under coercive conditions. (The minimum age for marriage is also raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.) The son of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, is largely blamed for what turned out to be a failed program.[1] A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues (in part) into the 21st century.[2]

Births

January to June

• 

  Abhishek Bachchan
  5 February – Abhishek Bachchan, actor.

Vishnu Vardhan Jaladanki

• 4 April – Simran Bagga, actress.
• 9 April – Rohit Gupta, writer and inventor.
• 9 April – Nithin Sathya, actor.
• 21 May – Aditi Gowitrikar, model, actress and physician.
• 

  Amisha Patel
  9 June – Amisha Patel, actress.

July to December

• 20 July - Debashish Mohanty, cricketer.
• 12 August – Baljit Singh Saini, field hockey player.
• 15 August - Raja Mukhtar, Pentecostal Pastor, Evangelist and Bible Teacher.
• 27 October – Pooja Batra, actress.
• 19 September – Ishaa Koppikar, actress and model.
• 14 November - Hemang Badani, cricketer.
• 

  Baichung Bhutia
  15 December – Baichung Bhutia, soccer player.

Deaths

• 25 January – Swami Anand, Gandhi activist and writer (b. 1887)
• 28 July – T. Nagi Reddy, communist politician (b. 1917).
• 

  Mukesh
  27 August – Mukesh, playback singer (b. 1923).
• 2 September – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (b. 1898).

References

1. "The Indira enigma". Frontline. 11 May 2001. Archived from the original on 10 November 2006. Retrieved 28 July 2006.
2. "Male involvement and contraceptive methods for men". Frontline. September 1996. Retrieved 28 July 2006.

See also

• Bollywood films of 1976