1965 in India

Events in the year 1965 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

Andhra Pradesh – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
Assam – Vishnu Sahay
Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung, Nityanand Kanungo
Jammu and Kashmir – Mahraja Karan Singh
Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh, V. V. Giri
Kerala – V. V. Giri, Ajith Prasad Jain
Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar, K. Chengalaraya Reddy
Maharashtra – P V Cherian
Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
Punjab – Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim, Sardar Ujjal Singh
Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

National income - 283,600 million
14 January - Food Corporation of India was founded.
26 January – Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India because of which Hindi does not get "National Language" status and remains one of the 2 Official Languages of India.
24 February – English is adopted as an associate language in dealings between the Central government and the non Hindi speaking states.
20 March – First fighting in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between West Pakistan and India only.
29 May – 1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster – A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.
July 14 - Sheikh Abdullah kept at custody in Kodaikanal for two years from July 1965 - June 1967.
5 August – War begins between India and Pakistan.
2 September – Kashmir is declared an "Integral Part of India" and is not a "disputed territory", later responded by the Pakistani troops entering the Indian sector of Kashmir.
6 September – Indian troops attempt to invade Lahore.
6–22 September – A full-scale Indo-Pakistani war is fought over Kashmir, which ends after a UN Security Council calls for a ceasefire on 20 September.
8 September – India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan.
9 September – U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.
16 September – China protests against Indian provocations in its border region.
18 September – Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.
22 September – Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.
24 September – Fighting resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops.
October - Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission by Central Intelligence Agency.
1 December – The Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders.
Femina Miss India held for the first time

Births

14 March – Aamir Khan, actor and film producer.
26 March Prakash Raj, actor and film director.
23 April – Jamling Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber.
25 April – Brahmaji, actor.
3 June Radha, actress.
19 June – Ashish Vidyarthi, actor.
2 July – Krishna Bhagavaan, actor.
15 August Raghavendra Rajkumar, actor and producer.
19 August – Hemant Birje, actor
2 September – Partho Sen-Gupta, independent film director and script writer.
13 September – Jafar Masood Hasani Nadwi, Sunni Muslim scholar
27 September – Sudha Chandran, dancer, actress.
11 October – Ronit Roy, film and television actor
1 November – Padmini Kolhapure, actress.
30 November – Tashi Tenzing, mountain climber.
10 December – Jayaram, actor.
25 December – Swami Ramdev, Yogguru.
27 December – Salman Khan, actor, film producer and television host.

01 June- Dr. Jayarama Reddy, Professor at St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru, Author, Scientist and You Tuber.

Full date unknown

S. Joseph, poet.
Amita Kanekar, novelist.

Deaths

19 January – Basanta Kumar Das, politician.
21 January – Geeta Bali, actress.
3 March – Amirbai Karnataki, actress and singer.

Full date unknown

Motilal, actor.
A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo.