1972 in India explained

Events in the year 1972 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
  • Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak Chief Justice of India – Sarv Mittra Sikri

Governors

• • • • Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru Bihar – Dev Kant Baruah Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
  • Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
  • Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay Karnataka – Dharma Vira (until 1 February), Mohanlal Sukhadia (starting 1 February)
    • • Kerala – V. Viswanathan Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung Manipur – B. K. Nehru (starting 21 January)
    • Meghalaya – B.K. Nehru Nagaland – B.K. Nehru Odisha –
      • • • • until 30 June: Shaukatullah Shah Ansari 1 July-8 November: Sardar Yojendra Singh starting 8 November: Basappa Danappa Jatti Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
• Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh (until 1 July), Sardar Jogendra Singh (starting 1 July)
  • Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah Tripura – B. K. Nehru
• Uttar Pradesh –
  • until 30 June: Bezawada Gopala Reddy
  • 1 July-13 November: Shashi Kant Varma
    • starting 14 November: Akbar Ali Khan West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - 552,453 million

January - June

• 21 January – Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya gets statehood.
• 19 March – India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, after the withdrawal of the Indian troops.
• 14 June - Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashed at Palam, Delhi killing 82 of the 87 on board.
• 26 June - Reserve Bank of India fixes buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.2910 and £5.2632 per Rs. 100 following the Government of the United Kingdom decision to float Pound sterling on 23 June. However the central rate remain unchanged at £5.2721 per Rs. 100.^[1]

July - December

• 2 July – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic bilateral Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes peacefully.
• 4 July - Reserve Bank of India revises buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.3333 and £5.3050 per Rs. 100 and kept central rates unchanged.
• 10 July – A stampede of elephants kills 24 people in the Chandaka Forest, Orissa.^[2]
• August - Expulsion of Indians from Uganda
• 17 October - M. G. Ramachandran, forms the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by splitting from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam starting a new phase in Dravidian movement.^[3]
• 19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company.^[4]
• 15 November - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was formed for independent statehood of Jharkhand from Bihar on birthday of Birsa Munda

Law

• 5 April - Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers (Amendment) Act amended to include new states and union territories of Northeast India.
• 15 August - Postal Index Number (PIN Code) introduced in India.
• 9 September - Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 enacted.
• 31 October – Supreme Court of India began hearing of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala case.^[5]

Births

• 24 February – Pooja Bhatt, actress, producer and director.
• 28 March – Eby J. Jose, journalist and human rights activist
• 15 April – Mandira Bedi, actress, model and television presenter.
• 20 April – Mamta Kulkarni, actress.
• 17 May – T. Udhayachandran, IAS.
• 25 May - Karan Johar,actor,host,director and producer.
• 10 June – Sundar Pichai, CEO Alphabet Inc.
• 8 July – Sourav Ganguly, cricketer.^[6]
• 28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
• 17 November Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
• 18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor
• 17 December – John Abraham, actor.
• 21 December – Jagan Mohan Reddy, politician.
• 26 December Hari Gopalakrishnan, film director.

Deaths

• 31 March – Meena Kumari, actress (b. 1932).
• 14 April – George Reddy, Student and PDSU leader at OU campus Hyderabad (b. 1947).
• 29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director (b. 1906).
• 20 July – Geeta Dutt, playback singer (b. 1930).
• 24 August – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, freedom fighter and Tamil poet (b. 1888).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1972

Notes and References

1. Verghese . S. K. . 1973 . International Monetary Crises and the Indian Rupee . Economic and Political Weekly . 8 . 30 . 1342–1348 . 0012-9976.
2. Web site: July 10 in history: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested, mass killing of stampeding elephants, and more . 2022-04-17 . WION . en.
3. News: Ramakrishnan. T.. 2021-10-18. A look at the events leading up to the birth of AIADMK. en-IN. The Hindu. 2022-01-16. 0971-751X.
4. Web site: 24 July 1983 . Sumit . Mitra . Jayanti Dharma Teja: An unheralded comeback . 2022-05-02 . India Today . en.
5. Book: Austin, Granville . Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience . Oxford University Press . 1999 . 0195648889 . 260 . en.
6. Web site: Sourav Ganguly. 2021-01-16. Cricinfo.