Events in the year 1974 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents President of India – V. V. Giri (until 24 August), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (after 24 August) Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi Vice President of India – Gopal Swarup Pathak until 30 August; B.D. Jatti Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

Governors Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai Assam – L. P. Singh Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha Karnataka – Mohanlal Sukhadia Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung Manipur – L.P. Singh Meghalaya – L.P. Singh Nagaland – L.P. Singh Odisha – until 20 August: Basappa Danappa Jatti 21 August-25 October: Gati Krushna Misra starting 25 October: Akbar Ali Khan Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah Tripura – L. P. Singh Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan (until 25 October), Marri Chenna Reddy (starting 25 October) West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events National income - 793,779 million

January - March 3 January - A protest against 20% canteen fee hike in Lalbhai Dalpatbhai College of Engineering, Ahmedabad turns into clashes with Police and later transformed to Navnirman Andolan. 5 January – Worli riots occurred in the chawl in the Worli neighborhood of Mumbai. The tensions prevailed till April. January – May smallpox epidemic in East India. 19 February - Drillship Sagar Samrat struck oil at Bombay High, 160 km off the shore. 16 March – Navnirman Andolan (Re-construction movement) a socio-political movement started in 1973 December in Gujarat by students and middle-class against economic crisis and corruption in public life. The movement ended with the dissolution of the elected government of Chimanbhai Patel. 18 March – Bihar Movement started as a movement by students in Bihar led by the veteran Gandhian socialist Jayaprakash Narayan, against misrule and corruption in the Government of Bihar. 25 March – Gaura Devi and 27 women confronted loggers in Chamoli district in connection with Chipko movement. 28 March - Minister of Food and Agriculture Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed announced that Government of India has decided to scrap take over of wholesale wheat distribution.

April - December 8 May – A railway strike started by 1.7 million workers of Indian Railways. The strike lasted for 20 days till 27 May 1974 and was the largest recorded industrial action in the world. 18 May – Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon in the Thar Desert, and becomes the sixth nation to do so. 28 June - Sirima–Gandhi Pact signed to solve the statelessness of Sri Lankan Tamils. 5 July - Colaba area of Bombay registers intense rainfall of 57.5 cms in 24 hours. 11–17 November - 1974 Indian Open held at Bombay.

Births 1 January – Abha Dawesar, novelist. 9 January – Farhan Akhtar, actor. 7 January – Varun Badola, actor. 10 January – Hrithik Roshan, actor. 25 February – Divya Bharti, actress (died 1993). 28 February – Sunil (actor), actor and comedian. 8 March – Fardeen Khan, actor. 14 March Rohit Shetty, film director. 22 April – Chetan Bhagat, novelist. 23 April – Shwetha Menon, actor. 20 May – Shiboprosad Mukherjee, film director, writer and actor. 28 May – Mayur Puri, screenwriter, lyricist, actor, filmmaker. 30 May Mohan Raja, film director. 7 June – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player. 22 June – C. Joseph Vijay, a retired actor and playback singer, is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. 22 June Devayani, actress. 25 June – Karisma Kapoor, actress. 15 July – Neikezhakuo Kengurüse, kargil hero. (died 1999). 5 August – Kajol, actress. 9 September – Vikram Batra, Indian Army-KARGIL HERO. (died 1999). 25 September AR Murugadoss, film director. 4 October- Subeer Sakssena- IT leader 23 October – Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.

1 November – V. V. S. Laxman, cricketer. 9 November – Manav Gohil, television actor 19 December – MVP, Writer & Author. 21 December – Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Indian Forest Service officer. 25 December Nagma, actress and politician.

Deaths 2 January – Prabhas Chandra Lahiri, revolutionary, politician and writer (b. 1893). 4 February – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (b. 1894). 11 February – Ghantasala, Telugu Play Back Singer (b.1922). 23 September – Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist (b. 1919). 6 October – V. K. Krishna Menon, nationalist and politician (b. 1897). 16 October – Chembai, Carnatic music singer (b. 1895). 16 October – Edasseri Govindan Nair, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1906). J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (b. 1926). Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (b. 1896). Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter, politician and in Uttar Pradesh, became first woman to be elected Chief Minister of a state (b. 1908). Matthew Pothen Thekaekara, scientist (b. 1914).

See also List of Bollywood films of 1974

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