1964 in India

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

• The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India

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.