1964 in India
Events in the year 1964 in the Republic of India.
1964 cyclone
Incumbents
- President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru until 27 May, Gulzarilal Nanda until 9 June, Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
- Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh, Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
- Assam – Vishnu Sahay
- Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
- Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
- Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh
- Kerala – V. V. Giri
- Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
- Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, P V Cherian
- Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
- Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
- Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai, Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim
- Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
- Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
- West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
- National income - 268,953 million
- January 4 - The lost relic recovered in connection with 1963 Hazratbal Shrine theft.
- April 8 - Jammu and Kashmir (state) withdrew the Kashmir Conspiracy Case from a special court.
- April 11 - Thirty two Council members walks out of Communist Party of India National Council resulting in the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India.
- May 27 – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
- July 1 - IDBI Bank was established through an Act of Parliament.
- August 29 - The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.
- October 30 - Sirima–Shastri Pact signed to grant citizenship to almost 9 lakhs Tamils based in Ceylon.
Law
Arts and literature
- 2 September – Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature.
- National Film Archive of India established in Pune.
Sport
- Charanjeet Singh is awarded the Padma Shri.
Births
- 9 January – Arjun, actor.
- 20 January – Fareed Zakaria, journalist
- 16 February – Shrirang Barne, politician, Member of Parliament from Maval constituency
- 30 April – Abhishek Chatterjee, Bengali film and television actor.
- 19 May – Murali, actor..
- 1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer.
- 22 October – Amit Shah, politician.
- 13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
- 26 August – Ilavarasu, cinematographer and actor.
- 10 September – Ramesh Aravind, actor and director.
- 23 September – Ponvannan, actor and director.
- 29 October – Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 14 November – Manoj Singh Mandavi, politician.
Full date unknown
- Bem Le Hunte, author.
Deaths
- 27 May – Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India.
- 6 February – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, freedom fighter, social activist and Health Minister.
- 10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor.