1965 in India

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
• Chief Justice of India – P. B. Gajendragadkar

• Andhra Pradesh – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
• Assam – Vishnu Sahay
• Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
• Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung (until 1 August), Nityanand Kanungo (starting 1 August)
• Jammu and Kashmir – Mahraja Karan Singh (starting 30 March)
• Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh (until 2 April), V. V. Giri (starting 2 April)
• Kerala – V. V. Giri (until 2 April), Ajith Prasad Jain (starting 2 April)
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar (until 10 February), K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February)
• Maharashtra – P V Cherian
• Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
• Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
• Punjab – Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (until 1 September), Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 1 September)
• Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
• Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

• National income - ₹283,600 million
• 14 January - Food Corporation of India was founded.
• 26 January – Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India because of which Hindi does not get "National Language" status and remains one of the 2 Official Languages of India.
• 24 February – English is adopted as an associate language in dealings between the Central government and the non Hindi speaking states.
• 20 March – First fighting in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between West Pakistan and India only.
• 29 May – 1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster – A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.
• July 14 - Sheikh Abdullah kept at custody in Kodaikanal for two years from July 1965 - June 1967.^[1]
• 5 August – War begins between India and Pakistan.
• 2 September – Kashmir is declared an "Integral Part of India" and is not a "disputed territory", later responded by the Pakistani troops entering the Indian sector of Kashmir.
• 6 September – Indian troops attempt to invade Lahore.
• 6–22 September – A full-scale Indo-Pakistani war is fought over Kashmir, which ends after a UN Security Council calls for a ceasefire on 20 September.
• 8 September – India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan.
• 9 September – U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.
• 16 September – China protests against Indian provocations in its border region.
• 18 September – Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.
• 22 September – Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.
• 24 September – Fighting resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops.
• October - Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission by Central Intelligence Agency.^[2]
• 1 December – The Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders.
• Femina Miss India held for the first time

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  14 March – Aamir Khan, actor and film producer.
• 26 March – Prakash Raj, actor and film director.
• 23 April – Jamling Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber.
• 25 April – Brahmaji, actor.
• 3 June – Radha, actress.
• 19 June – Ashish Vidyarthi, actor.
• 2 July – Krishna Bhagavaan, actor.
• 15 August – Raghavendra Rajkumar, actor and producer.
• 19 August – Hemant Birje, actor
• 2 September – Partho Sen-Gupta, independent film director and script writer.
• 13 September – Jafar Masood Hasani Nadwi, Sunni Muslim scholar (d. 2025)
• 27 September – Sudha Chandran, dancer, actress.
• 11 October – Ronit Roy, film and television actor^[3]
• 1 November – Padmini Kolhapure, actress.
• 30 November – Tashi Tenzing, mountain climber.
• 10 December – Jayaram, actor.
• 25 December – Swami Ramdev, Yogguru.
• 27 December – Salman Khan, actor, film producer and television host.

01 June- Dr. Jayarama Reddy, Professor at St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru, Author, Scientist and You Tuber.

• S. Joseph, poet.
• Amita Kanekar, novelist.