1962 in India
The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Rajendra Prasad until 13 May, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan until 13 May; Zakir Husain
- Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar, Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh
- Assam – Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh, Vishnu Sahay
- Bihar – Zakir Hussain, M. A. S. Ayyangar
- Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
- Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
- Kerala – V. V. Giri
- Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
- Maharashtra –
- * until 16 April: Sri Prakasa
- * 16 April-6 October: P. Subbarayan
- * starting 28 November: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar, Ajudhia Nath Khosla
- Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil, Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
- Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh, Sampurnanand
- Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao, Bishwanath Das
- West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
- National income - 200,769 million
- 10 February - Indian National Committee for Space Research set up with Vikram Sarabhai from Physical Research Laboratory leading it.
- 3 April – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.
- 6 May – India defeats the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final of 1962 Davis Cup at New Delhi
- 28 July – A locust swarm threatens New Delhi.
- 21 September – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
- 10 October – Beginning of the Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations.
- 20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and illegally captured Aksai Chin thereby starting the Sino-Indian War.
- 26 October - Emergency enforced in India for the first time following the Sino-Indian War.
- 21 November –
- * The 1962 war ends with a Chinese Victory and India surrenders Aksai Chin to China.
- * China withdraws troops from Arunachal Pradesh and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line.
- 19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India.
- Internment of Chinese-Indians at Deoli, Rajasthan
Law
- 28 October – Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962 promulgated as ordinance.
- The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India
Births
- 1 January – Ravi Raghavendra, actor.
- 17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer.
- 12 February Jagapathi Babu, actor.
- 12 February Kanal Kannan, actor, action choreographer and screenwriter.
- 17 March Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American Astronaut and First Indian women to go to space..
- 31 March Ramki, actor.
- 3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician.
- 7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer.
- 13 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman, 11th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect
- 27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer.
- 5 June – C. Sylendra Babu, Indian Police Service Officer.
- 14 June – Jayaprakash, actor and producer
- 9 June – N. K. Senthamarai Kannan, Indian Police Service Officer.
- 3 July – U. Sagayam, former career Indian civil servant
- 6 July – Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada.
- 12 July Shiva Rajkumar, actor and producer.
- 4 August Thalaivasal Vijay, actor and dubbing artist
- 10 August Atiq Ahmed, gangster and politician.
- 15 August Arjun Sarja, actor, producer and director.
- 25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director.
- 4 September – Kiran More, cricketer.
- 16 November Ambika, actress.
Full date unknown
- Sucheta Dalal, finance journalist.
- Madhavi, actress.
Deaths
- 11 June – Chhabi Biswas, actor.
- 1 July – Bidhan Chandra Roy, second Chief Minister of West Bengal.
- 4 December – Annapurnanand, Hindi writer
Full date unknown
- K. C. Dey, actor.