1977 in India

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Events in the year 1977 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until 11 February, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.[1]
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 24 March, Morarji Desai.[2]
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray (until 27 January), Mirza Hameedullah Beg (starting 27 January)

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

• 18 January - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, via a radio broadcast, announced that the Lok Sabha would be dissolved and fresh elections would be held in March.[3][4]
• March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.[5]
• 21 March - Emergency was officially withdrawn.[4]
• 3 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned.[6]
• November – More than 10,000 people die when the 1977 Andhra Pradesh cyclone hits India's southeast coast. The storm disrupts life for 5.4 million people in 830 villages, and damages 14,000 km² of cropland.[7]

Births

• 14 January – Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driver
• 27 January – Deepshikha Nagpal, actress
• 31 January – Suchitra Singh, cricketer
• 16 February – Darshan Thoogudeep, actor and film producer
• 21 February – Ranjith, singer and composer
• 23 March – Smriti Irani, actress and politician
• 4 April – Shamshuddin Ibrahim, model and actor
• 19 April – Anju Bobby George, athlete
• 24 May – Jeet Gannguli, singer, music director and score composer
• 25 May – Karthik Sivakumar, actor
• 2 July – Ganesh, actor
• 29 August – Vishal Krishna, actor and film producer
• 29 August – P. V. Midhun Reddy, politician and former member of parliament from Rajampet
• 18 October – Jyothika, actress
• 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor
• 24 November – Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player

Full date unknown

• Rajorshi Chakraborti, novelist.
• Vasundhara Das, actress and singer.

Deaths

• 11 February – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, fifth President of India (b. 1905)
• 22 March – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (b. 1904).
• 14 November – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder–acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896).

Full date unknown

• Hamid Dalwai, social reformer and writer (b. 1932).
• Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur'an (b. 1892).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1977

References

1. Venkatraman, Archana (27 July 2015). "As the venerated former President APJ Abdul Kalam passes away, here's a list of all Presidents of India". India Bulletin. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
2. "*** List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 to 2014". www.currentaffairsedu.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
3. "The abrupt end of Emergency". The Indian Express. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
4. Vandana Menon (26 June 2018). "43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events". ThePrint. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
5. "Shri Morarji Desai | Prime Minister of India". www.pmindia.gov.in. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
6. Besant, Annie (18 October 2014). "Nehru Centre Planetarium". Nehru Centre. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
7. The storm in Orissa. The Economist, 00130613, 11/6/1999, Vol. 353, Issue 8144