1962 in India
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The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of India.
Governors
- President of India – Rajendra Prasad until 13 May, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan until 13 May; Zakir Husain
- Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
- Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 8 September), Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 8 September)
- Assam – Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until 7 September), Vishnu Sahay (starting 7 September)
- Bihar – Zakir Hussain (until 11 May), M. A. S. Ayyangar (starting 11 May)
- Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
- Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
- Kerala – V. V. Giri
- Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
- Maharashtra –
- until 16 April: Sri Prakasa
- 16 April-6 October: P. Subbarayan
- starting 28 November: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (until 15 September), Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 15 September)
- Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (until 1 October), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting 1 October)
- Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh (until 16 April), Sampurnanand (starting 16 April)
- Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (until 15 April), Bishwanath Das (starting 15 April)
- West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
- National income - ₹200,769 million
- 10 February - Indian National Committee for Space Research set up with Vikram Sarabhai from Physical Research Laboratory leading it.
- 3 April – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.
- 6 May – India defeats the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final of 1962 Davis Cup at New Delhi
- 28 July – A locust swarm threatens New Delhi.
- 21 September – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
- 10 October – Beginning of the Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (between India and the People's Republic of China).
- 20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and illegally captured Aksai Chin thereby starting the Sino-Indian War.
- 26 October - Emergency enforced in India for the first time following the Sino-Indian War.[1]
- 21 November –
- The 1962 war ends with a Chinese Victory and India surrenders Aksai Chin to China.
- China withdraws troops from Arunachal Pradesh and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line.
- 19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India.
- Internment of Chinese-Indians at Deoli, Rajasthan[2]
Law
- 28 October – Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962 promulgated as ordinance.
- The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India
Births
- 1 January – Ravi Raghavendra, actor.
- 17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer.
- 12 February – Jagapathi Babu, actor.
- 12 February – Kanal Kannan, actor, action choreographer and screenwriter.
- 17 March – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American Astronaut and First Indian women to go to space. (died 2003).
- 31 March – Ramki, actor.
- 3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician.
- 7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer.
- 13 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman, 11th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect
- 27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer.
- 5 June – C. Sylendra Babu, Indian Police Service Officer.
- 14 June – Jayaprakash, actor and producer
- 9 June – N. K. Senthamarai Kannan, Indian Police Service Officer.
- 3 July – U. Sagayam, former career Indian civil servant
- 6 July – Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada.
- 12 July – Shiva Rajkumar, actor and producer.
- 4 August – Thalaivasal Vijay, actor and dubbing artist
- 10 August – Atiq Ahmed, gangster and politician. (d. 2023)
- 15 August – Arjun Sarja, actor, producer and director.
- 25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director. (d. 2021)
- 4 September – Kiran More, cricketer.
- 16 November – Ambika, actress.
Full date unknown
- Sucheta Dalal, finance journalist.
- Madhavi, actress.