1974 in India

← 1973 1972 1971 1974 in India → 1975 1976 1977
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Events in the year 1974 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – V. V. Giri until 24 August, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi

Events

• January to May smallpox epidemic
• 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.
• 1974 railway strike in India

Births

• 1 January - Abha Dawesar, novelist.
• 9 January - Farhan Akhtar, actor.
• 10 January - Hrithik Roshan, actor.
• 7 January - Varun Badola, actor.
• 25 February - Divya Bharti, actress (died 1993).
• 8 March - Fardeen Khan, actor.
• 22 April - Chetan Bhagat, novelist.
• 23 April - Shwetha Menon, actor.
• 7 June - Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player.
• 22 June - Joseph Vijay, actor and playback singer.
• 25 June - Karisma Kapoor, actress.
• 5 August - Kajol, actress.
• 9 August - Mahesh Babu, actor.
• 23 October - Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.
• 1 November - V. V. S. Laxman, cricketer.
• 19 December - MVP, Writer & Author.

Deaths

• 4 February - Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (b. 1894).
• 11 February - Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao, 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

• Bollywood films of 1974