1977 in India explained

Events in the year 1977 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until 11 February, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.^[1]
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 24 March, Morarji Desai.^[2]
  • Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray (until 27 January), Mirza Hameedullah Beg (starting 27 January)

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh –
  • until 17 February: Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
    • • 17 February-5 May: B. J. Divan starting 5 May: Sharda Mukherjee
      • Assam – L. P. Singh Bihar – Jagannath Kaushal Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham Haryana – Jaisukh Lal Hathi (until 23 September), Harcharan Singh Brar (starting 23 September)
• Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti (until 16 February), Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan (starting 16 February)
  • Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha Karnataka – Uma Shankar Dikshit (until 2 August), Govind Narain (starting 2 August)
• Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo (until 10 October), Jothi Venkatachalam (starting 10 October)
• Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha (until 13 October), N. N. Wanchu (starting 13 October)
• Maharashtra – vacant thereafter (until)
  • • • Manipur – L.P. Singh Meghalaya – L.P. Singh Nagaland – L.P. Singh Odisha –
        • • until 7 February: Shiva Narayan Shankar 7 February-22 September: Harcharan Singh Brar starting 22 September: Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
• Punjab –
  • • • until 1 September: Mahendra Mohan Choudhry 1 September-24 September: Ranjit Singh Narula
  • starting 24 September: Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan –
  • until 15 February: Sardar Jogendra Singh
  • 15 February-17 May: Vedpal Tyagi
  • starting 17 May: Raghukul Tilak
  • Sikkim – B. B. Lal Tamil Nadu –
  • until 8 April: Mohan Lal Sukhadia
  • 9 April-26 April: P. Govindan Nair
  • starting 26 April: Prabhudas Patwari
  • Tripura – L. P. Singh Uttar Pradesh – Marri Chenna Reddy (until 1 October), Ganpatrao Devji Tapase (starting 1 October)
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

• National income - 1,040,235 million
• 18 January - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, via a radio broadcast, announced that the Lok Sabha would be dissolved and fresh elections would be held in March.^{[3] [4]}
• 3 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned.^[5]
• 24 March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.^[6]
• 25 March - T. V. Eachara Warrier filed Habeas corpus before Kerala High Court for knowing whereabouts of his son in connection with Rajan case.
• 27 May - 11 villagers of Belchi, Bihar (includes 8 Dalits and 3 Sunar) were brutally murdered by terror gang from Kurmi/Bhumihar caste as part of caste violence.^[7]
• 30 June - M. G. Ramachandran sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He became the first film actor to be the Chief Minister of an Indian state.
• 7 July – George Fernandes became Minister of Industries in Morarji Desai ministry.^[8]
• 20 November – More than 10,000 people die when the 1977 Andhra Pradesh cyclone hits India's southeast coast. The storm disrupts life for 5.4 million people in 830 villages, and damages 14,000 km² of cropland.^[9]
• 8 December - Morarji Desai Government digs out Time capsule buried by Indira Gandhi in Red Fort premises in 1973.^[10]

Law

• 3 Jan - The 42nd amendment Act, 1976, was commenced.
• 21 March - Emergency was officially withdrawn.^[11]

Births

• 14 January – Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driver
• 27 January – Deepshikha Nagpal, actress
• 31 January – Suchitra Singh, cricketer
• 5 February – Darez Ahamed, IAS
• 16 February – Darshan Thoogudeep, actor and film producer
• 21 February – Ranjith, singer and composer
• 15 March – Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Armed force officer (d. 2008).
• 4 April – Shamshuddin Ibrahim, model and actor
• 19 April – Anju Bobby George, athlete
• 24 May – Jeet Gannguli, singer, music director and score composer
• 25 May – Karthik Sivakumar, actor
• 19 June – Smita Sabharwal, Indian Administrative Service Officer
• 2 July – Ganesh, actor.
• 12 August Siva, film director.
• 19 August Suvaluxmi, actress.
• 27 August Soori, actor and comedian.
• 29 August – Vishal Krishna, actor and film producer
• 29 August – P. V. Midhun Reddy, politician and former member of parliament from Rajampet
• 19 September - Vennela Kishore, actor, comedian and director.
• 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor.
• 19 November Arun Vijay, actor.
• 24 November – Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player
• 20 December – Gauri Karnik, actress

Full date unknown

• Rajorshi Chakraborti, novelist.
• Vasundhara Das, actress and singer.

Deaths

• 11 February – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, fifth President of India (b. 1905)
• 22 March – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (b. 1904).
• 14 November – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder–acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (b. 1896).

Full date unknown

• Hamid Dalwai, social reformer and writer (b. 1932).
• Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur'an (b. 1892).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1977

References

1. Web site: As the venerated former President APJ Abdul Kalam passes away, here's a list of all Presidents of India. Venkatraman. Archana. 27 July 2015. India Bulletin. 3 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170505200138/http://www.indianewsbulletin.com/list-of-all-presidents-of-india-since-india-becane-a-republic-from-rajendra-prasad-to-pranab-mukherjee. 5 May 2017. dead.
2. Web site:
   • • • List of Prime Ministers of India From 1947 to 2014
   . www.currentaffairsedu.com. en-US. 2017-05-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20161128160820/http://www.currentaffairsedu.com/list-of-prime-ministers-of-india-from-1947-to-2014/. 28 November 2016. dead.
3. Web site: 2014-08-04. The abrupt end of Emergency. 2020-09-29. The Indian Express. en.
4. Web site: Vandana. Menon. 2018-06-26. 43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events. 2020-09-29. ThePrint. en-US.
5. Web site: Nehru Centre Planetarium . Besant . Annie . 18 October 2014 . Nehru Centre . https://web.archive.org/web/20161127022804/http://www.nehru-centre.org/planetarium/ . 27 November 2016 . dead . 3 May 2017 .
6. Web site: Shri Morarji Desai Prime Minister of India. 2017-05-03. www.pmindia.gov.in. en.
7. Web site: Farz. Ahmed. July 15, 1977. Caste differences claim more lives in Bihar than any other state in India. 2022-01-13. India Today. en.
8. Book: Ramagundam, Rahul . The Life and Times of George Fernandes . Penguin Random House India . 2022 . 978-0670092888 . 345 . en.
9. The storm in Orissa. The Economist, 00130613, 11/6/1999, Vol. 353, Issue 8144
10. Web site: Fact Check: Indira Gandhi’s 1973 time capsule was unearthed more than 40 years ago! . 2023-10-23 . India Today . en.
11. Web site: Vandana. Menon. 2018-06-26. 43 years of Emergency: A timeline of events. 2020-09-29. ThePrint. en-US.