1977 in India

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Events in the year 1977 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until July 25, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until March 24, Morarji Desai

Events

• March - The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.
• 3 March - Nehru Planetarium commissioned.
• November - More than 10,000 people die when a 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.
• A commission, chaired by B P Mandal is set up.

Births

• 14 January - Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driver.
• 27 January - Deepshika, actress.
• 23 March - Smriti Zubin Irani, actress and politician.
• 9 June - Roopa Mishra, civil servant.
• 2 July - Ganesh, actor.
• 16 September - Gauri Pradhan Tejwani, actress.
• 21 November - Karthik Kumar, actor.
• 24 November - Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player.

Full date unknown

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

Deaths

• 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

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