• Source: 1972 in India

      • 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.


      = 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.
      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.
      19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company.
      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.


      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.
      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


      References

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