1974 in India
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Incumbents
- President of IndiaPresident of IndiaThe President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
– V. V. GiriV. V. GiriVarahagiri Venkata Giri , commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974.-Early life:...
until August 24, Fakhruddin Ali AhmedFakhruddin Ali AhmedFakhruddin Ali Ahmed was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977.-Early life and background:Fakhruddin's grandfather, Khaliluddin Ali Ahmed, of Kacharighat near Golaghat, Assam, married in one of the families who were the relics of Emperor Aurangzeb's bid to conquer Assam Ahmed was born on... - Prime Minister of IndiaPrime Minister of IndiaThe Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
– Indira GandhiIndira GandhiIndira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
Events
- January to May smallpox epidemic
- 18 May - Under project Smiling BuddhaSmiling BuddhaThe Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8:05 a.m....
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
successfully detonates its second nuclear weaponNuclear weaponA nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission bomb test released the same amount...
near the Pakistani border, the first time in the country openly becomes the sixth nation to do so. - 1974 railway strike in India1974 railway strike in India1974 railway strike in India was the strike by workers of Indian Railways in 1974. The 20 days strike by 17 million workers is the largest known strike....
Births
- 1 January - Abha Dawesar, novelist.
- 7 January - Varun BadolaVarun BadolaVarun Badola is an Indian actor, known largely for his roles on television.His father is a known artist, Vishwa Mohan Badola. He has 2 sisters — Alka who is married and has appeared in KumKum, and Kalindi , who is a radio jockey.He did his schooling from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya in New Delhi....
, actor. - 8 March - Fardeen KhanFardeen KhanFardeen Khan is an Indian Bollywood actor.-Early life:Fardeen Khan was born to actor turned director Feroz Khan and mother Sundari. Grandson of Sadiq Ali Khan and Fatima Khan. He is the nephew of actors Sanjay Khan and Akbar Khan. He is the cousin of Suzanne Khan and actor Zayed Khan. He lived in...
, actor. - 22 April - Chetan BhagatChetan BhagatChetan Bhagat , is an Indian author, columnist, and speaker. Bhagat is the author of five bestselling novels, Five Point Someone , One Night @ the Call Center , The 3 Mistakes of My Life , 2 States & Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition...
, novelist. - 7 June - Mahesh BhupathiMahesh BhupathiMahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...
, tennis player. - 22 June - Joseph VijayJoseph VijayVijay is an Indian film actor and playback singer, who is based in the cinema of Tamil Nadu. He is the son of film producer and director S. A. Chandrasekhar. After performing uncredited roles as a child actor in films produced by his father, he made his debut in a lead role in the 1992 film...
, actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and playback singerPlayback singerA playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...
. - 25 June - Karisma KapoorKarisma KapoorKarisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...
, actress. - 09 August - Mahesh BabuMahesh BabuMahesh Babu born Mahesh Babu Ghattamaneni on 9 August 1975 is an Indian film actor from Telugu Cinema. Born to Legendary Telugu actor Superstar Krishna, Mahesh Babu faced the camera at the age of four as a child artist in the movie Needa...
, actor - 16 August- Balachandar - URA (Upcoming Real Actor)- Chennai/Mannargudi
- 23 October - Aravind AdigaAravind AdigaAravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.-Early life and education:...
, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker PrizeMan Booker PrizeThe Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...
winner. - 1 November - V. V. S. LaxmanV. V. S. LaxmanVangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman , sometimes shortened to Venkatsai Laxman but generally known as V.V.S. Laxman, is an Indian cricketer. Laxman represents Hyderabad in domestic cricket and has played for Lancashire in English county cricket. Laxman is the great grand nephew of Dr. Sarvepalli...
, cricketer. - Manjeet KullarManjeet KullarManjeet Kullar is an Indian actress.Kullar did many films in Punjabi in the 90's, including Mirza Sahiban, Vairee, Deson Pardeson, Jaildaar, Main Maa Punjab Dee , Pachtawa, and Ishq Nachavye Gali Gali. Her major Hindi films were Tehkhaana, Dil Ka Kya Qasoor, Dhadkan, and Ikke Pe Ikka...
, actress.
Deaths
- 4 February - Satyendra Nath BoseSatyendra Nath BoseSatyendra Nath Bose FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation...
, physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
(b.18941894 in India-Births:*1 January — Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist .*21 February — Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist .*25 February — Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master .*10 April — Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman .-Full date unknown:...
). - 23 September - Jayachamaraja Wodeyar BahadurJayachamaraja Wodeyar BahadurJayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur was the 25th and the last Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore from 1940 to 1950. He was a noted philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist.-Biography:...
, last MaharajaMaharajaMahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...
of MysoreKingdom of MysoreThe Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore. The kingdom, which was ruled by the Wodeyar family, initially served as a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire...
, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist (b.19191919 in IndiaEvents in the year 1919 in India.-Events:* 13 April - At the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in the Punjab, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs.-Unknown dates:...
). - 6 October - V. K. Krishna Menon, nationalist and politician (b.18971897 in India-Births:*23 January — Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement .*8 February — Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India ....
). - 16 October - ChembaiChembaiChembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar was a Carnatic music singer from Palakkad . Known by his village name Chembai, or simply as Bhagavatar, he was born to Anantha Bhagavatar and Parvati Ammal in 1896, at Kottayi near Palakkad on Janmashtami day, with Bharani star in the month of Chingam...
, Carnatic musicCarnatic musicCarnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...
singer (b.18951895 in India-Births:*12 January — Yellapragada Subbarao, medical scientist .*1 September — Chembai, Carnatic music singer .*11 September — Vinoba Bhave, freedom fighter and teacher ....
). - 16 October - Edasseri Govindan NairEdasseri Govindan NairEdasseri Govindan Nair is a prominent Malayalam poet. His works include 19 books and over 300 poems in 10 anthologies, 6 books of plays and a collection of essays....
, poet, playwright and essayist (b.19061906 in IndiaEvents in the year 1906 in India.-Events:*1 January - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.*11 September - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa....
). - J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (b.19261926 in India-Events:*15 July - BEST buses make its début in Bombay.*24 November - Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving the Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.-January to June:*8 January - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Odissi dancer and guru ....
). - Kshetresa Chandra ChattopadhyayaKshetresa Chandra ChattopadhyayaKshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya was a distinguished scholar of Sanskrit from India. A scholar of Sanskrit, Veda, grammar, Pali, Prakrit and philology, he was born on October 27, 1896 in village Nimta of North 24 Parganas in what was then Bengal. He came from an illustrious family of Kulina...
, scholar of SanskritSanskritSanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
(b.18961896 in India-Births:*29 February — Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India .*1 September — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ....
). - Sucheta KriplaniSucheta KriplaniSucheta Kriplani , born Sucheta Mazumdar, was an Indian freedom fighter and politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. She became the first woman to be elected Chief Minister of any Indian state.-Early life:...
, freedom fighter, politician and in Uttar Pradesh, became first woman to be elected Chief MinisterChief MinisterA Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
of a state (b.19081908 in India-January to June:*17 January - L. V. Prasad, actor, producer and director .*26 February - Leela Majumdar, writer .*2 March - Mahadeva Subramania Mani, entomologist .*5 April - Jagjivan Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer ....
). - Matthew Pothen ThekaekaraMatthew Pothen ThekaekaraRev. Dr. Matthew Pothen Thekaekara born into an eminent Syrian Catholic Christian family in Changanacherry, Kerala, India was a scientist and author of many books and papers relating to spectrophotometry and the solar constant besides works on theology.He was instrumental in publishing some of...
, scientist (b.19141914 in India-Events:* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.* In August India as the British colony sends troops to Europe to participate as the British fighting partner in World War I against Germany. This force was a part of the British...
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See also
- Bollywood films of 1974Bollywood films of 1974A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1974:-Highest grossing:The top forty grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1974:Box office verdict of the last ten films in above list was flop-1974:-External links:...