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1964
Events in the year 1964 in the Republic of India.
1964 cyclone
Incumbents
President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru until 27 May, Gulzarilal Nanda until 9 June (acting Prime Minister), Lal Bahadur Shastri
Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until May 4), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting May 4)
Assam – Vishnu Sahay
Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh
Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh
Kerala – V. V. Giri
Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (until 18 October), P V Cherian (starting 14 November)
Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (until 4 May), Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (starting 4 May)
Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
National income - 268,953 million
January 4 - The lost relic recovered in connection with 1963 Hazratbal Shrine theft.
April 8 - Jammu and Kashmir (state) withdrew the Kashmir Conspiracy Case from a special court.2010-08-23 Let the Sheikh try https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/let-the-sheikh-try/ 2022-04-09 The Indian Express en
April 11 - Thirty two Council members walks out of Communist Party of India National Council resulting in the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India.
May 27 – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
July 1 - IDBI Bank was established through an Act of Parliament.
August 29 - The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.
October 30 - Sirima–Shastri Pact signed to grant citizenship to almost 9 lakhs Tamils based in Ceylon.Phadnis Urmila Kumar Lalit 1975 THE SIRIMAVO-SHASTRI PACT OF 1964: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION https://www.jstor.org/stable/45070385 India Quarterly 31 3 249–269 0974-9284
Law
The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India
Arts and literature
2 September – Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature.
National Film Archive of India established in Pune.
Sport
Charanjeet Singh (hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
Births
9 January – Arjun, actor.
20 January – Fareed Zakaria, journalist
16 February – Shrirang Barne, politician, Member of Parliament from Maval constituency
30 April – Abhishek Chatterjee, Bengali film and television actor.
19 May – Murali, actor. (died 2010).
1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident).
22 October – Amit Shah, politician.
13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
26 August – Ilavarasu, cinematographer and actor.
10 September – Ramesh Aravind, actor and director.
23 September – Ponvannan, actor and director.
29 October – Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.List of IAS officers https://easy.nic.in/civillistias/yrcurr/AgeListCL.asp?Slab=8&Cadre=SK&AsOnDate=01/01/2020 31 May 2023
14 November – Manoj Singh Mandavi, politician (died 2022).
Full date unknown
Bem Le Hunte, author.
Deaths
27 May – Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889).
6 February – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, freedom fighter, social activist and Health Minister (b. 1887).
10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor (b. 1925).
See also
Bollywood films of 1964
References
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