1969 in India

• President of India – Zakir Husain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July (acting president), Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August (acting president), V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Vice President of India – V. V. Giri until 3 May; Gopal Swarup Pathak
• Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

• Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
• Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
• Bihar – Nityanand Kanungo
• Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
• Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
• Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
• Karnataka – Gopal Swarup Pathak (until 30 August), vacant thereafter (starting 30 August)
• Kerala – V. Viswanathan
• Madhya Pradesh – K. Chengalaraya Reddy
• Maharashtra – P V Cherian (until 8 November), vacant thereafter (starting 8 November)
• Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
• Odisha – Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
• Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
• Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh
• Tamil Nadu – Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 14 January)
• Uttar Pradesh – Bezawada Gopala Reddy
• West Bengal –
  • until 1 April: Dharma Vira
  • 1 April-19 September: Deep Narayan Sinha
  • starting 19 September: Shanti Swaroop Dhavan

• National income - ₹438,360 million
• 14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law.^[1]
• 1 March - The first Rajdhani Express commenced its journey between Delhi and Howrah.^[2]
• 12 July – Congress Parliamentary Board at Bangalore nominated Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as Congress's candidate for the post of President of India by a vote of four to two.^[3]
• 19 July -
  • 14 major private banks nationalized
  • Morarji Desai resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of India.^[4]
• 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots.^[5]
• 12 November – Congress Working Committee headed by S. Nijalingappa removed Indira Gandhi from primary membership of Congress Party.^[6]
• Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
• Rajdhani Express was introduced
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was set up
• Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) came into existence (10 March 1969)

• Registration of Births and Death Act ( RBD Act)

• 24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army. (died 1999).
• 2 April – Ajay Devgan, actor and producer.
• 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
• 24 August – Mukesh Tiwari, actor.
• 4 November – Rupini, actress.
• 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
• 25 November – Sukanya, actress and dancer.

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  11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

• Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.
• M. Yoganathan, environmental activist.^[7]