1974 in India explained
Events in the year 1974 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- National income - 793,779 million
January - March
April - December
Births
- 1 January – Abha Dawesar, novelist.
- 9 January – Farhan Akhtar, actor.
- 7 January – Varun Badola, actor.
- 10 January – Hrithik Roshan, actor.
- 25 February – Divya Bharti, actress (died 1993).
- 28 February – Sunil (actor), actor and comedian.
- 8 March – Fardeen Khan, actor.
- 14 March Rohit Shetty, film director.
- 22 April – Chetan Bhagat, novelist.
- 23 April – Shwetha Menon, actor.
- 20 May – Shiboprosad Mukherjee, film director, writer and actor.
- 28 May – Mayur Puri, screenwriter, lyricist, actor, filmmaker.
- 30 May Mohan Raja, film director.
- 7 June – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player.
- 22 June – Joseph Vijay, actor and playback singer.
- 22 June Devayani, actress.
- 25 June – Karisma Kapoor, actress.
- 15 July – Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, kargil hero. (died 1999).
- 5 August – Kajol, actress.
- 9 September – Vikram Batra, Indian Army-KARGIL HERO. (died 1999).
- 25 September AR Murugadoss, film director.
- 23 October – Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.
Deaths
- 4 February – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (b. 1894).
- 11 February – Ghantasala, Telugu Play Back Singer (b.1922).
- 23 September – Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist (b. 1919).
- 6 October – V. K. Krishna Menon, nationalist and politician (b. 1897).
- 16 October – Chembai, Carnatic music singer (b. 1895).
- 16 October – Edasseri Govindan Nair, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1906).
- J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (b. 1926).
- Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (b. 1896).
- Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter, politician and in Uttar Pradesh, became first woman to be elected Chief Minister of a state (b. 1908).
- Matthew Pothen Thekaekara, scientist (b. 1914).
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Team . Goan Observer . 2020-01-17 . 1974 STRIKE INSPIRED JP MOVEMENT! . 2023-10-23 . Goan Observer . en-US.
- Web site: ONGC - Mumbai High blossomed from depth of 962 meters on Well H-1-1 this day in 1974 – a new era dawned!! . 2022-04-17 . www.ongcindia.com.
- Web site: Nav-nirman Andolan of Gujarat, 1973-74: A new awakening. 2022-01-16. India Today. en.
- News: Bernard . Weinraub . 1974-03-29 . India Ending Take‐Over Of Distribution of Wheat . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-17 . 0362-4331.
- Web site: 2020-04-05 . It was 1974 total strike of Railways that first showed India what life was without trains . 2022-04-17 . The Indian Express . en.
- Web site: Better jail than rail: George Fernandes' slogan that led to Asia's biggest railway strike in 1974 . 2022-04-17 . The New Indian Express . 29 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200329041811/https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/jan/30/better-jail-than-rail-george-fernandes-slogan-that-led-to-asias-biggest-railway-strike-in-1974-1931637.html . dead .
- Web site: First Nuclear Test at Pokhran in 1974 - India Nuclear Forces . 2022-04-17 . nuke.fas.org.
- News: Premkumar . Rohan . 2020-01-25 . Fifty years on, Citizenship Amendment Act brings new fears to Tamils repatriated from Sri Lanka . en-IN . The Hindu . 2022-04-17 . 0971-751X.
- Phadnis . Urmila . 1967 . The Indo-Ceylon Pact and the "Stateless" Indians in Ceylon . Asian Survey . 7 . 4 . 226–236 . 10.2307/2642476 . 0004-4687.
- Web site: August 6, 2020 . Poonam . Ahuja . Mumbai records its second highest all-time rainfall after 1974 . 2022-04-17 . Mumbai Mirror . en.
- Web site: Happy Birthday to Manav, Shalini, Payal, Malhar, Pankaj and Tanvi. tellychakkar.com. 9 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121111172612/http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/happy-birthday-manav-shalini-payal-malhar-pankaj-and-tanvi. 2012-11-25. 11 November 2012.