1977 in India

Events in the year 1977 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until 11 February, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 24 March, Morarji Desai.
• 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 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned.
• 24 March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.
• 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 - Belchhi massacre: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 8 December - Morarji Desai Government digs out Time capsule buried by Indira Gandhi in Red Fort premises in 1973.

Law

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• 21 March - Emergency was officially withdrawn.

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