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Events in the year 1961 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – Rajendra Prasad
Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
= Governors
=Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
Assam – Vishnu Sahay (until 13 January), Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 13 January)
Bihar – Zakir Hussain
Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
Kerala – V. V. Giri
Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar
Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
National income - ₹186,821 million
20 January – Queen Elizabeth II start of Royal visit.
5 February - Cachar Gana Sangram Parishad formed against imposition of Assamese language in Barak Valley by Bimala Prasad Chaliha government.
4 March – the first Aircraft carrier of Indian Navy, INS Vikrant was commissioned.
19 April - Indian Foreign Service officer K. Sankara Pillai assassinated at Indian High Commission, Ottawa by a youth of Yugoslavian origins. This is the first martyr-ship of an Indian Diplomat.
19 May - Eleven Bengali Language Movement workers of Barak Valley including Kamala Bhattacharya killed in Assam Rifles firings at Silchar.
29 May – Nearly 32 people died in a coastal village in Kollam, Kerala due to chelonitoxism after consuming Turtle meat.
23 June - Sainik School system was established by Defence Minister of India, V. K. Krishna Menon.
12 July – Panshet Dam bursts in Pune causing a massive flood in the city of Pune. Over 1,000 people die.
2 October - Shipping Corporation of India is incorporated by amalgamation of Eastern Shipping Corporation and Western Shipping Corporation.
14 October - Jawaharlal Nehru commissions the first Electric locomotive that is made in India at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works.
1 November – The Hungry generation movement is launched in Calcutta.
17-19 December – Goa is officially ceded to India after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
Law
5 December – Supreme Court of India held that land taking under Kerala Agrarian Relations Act, 1961 is not protected from judicial scrutiny of Article 31(A).
The Tenth and Eleventh Amendments of the Constitution of India (1961)
Anti-dowry Act
Births
7 January – Supriya Pathak, actress.
22 February - Mansoor Ali Khan, actor, music composer, writer and producer.
12 June – Jagadish, actor.
6 July – Vandana Chavan, politician and lawyer.
19 July – Harsha Bhogle, cricket commentator and journalist
15 August – Suhasini Maniratnam, actress, producer and director.
19 November – Vivek, actor and comedian. (d. 2021).
= Full date unknown
=V. M. Girija, poet.
See also
List of Bollywood films of 1961
References
External links
Media related to 1961 in India at Wikimedia Commons