1969 in India
Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Zakir Husain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July, Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August, V. V. Giri
- Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
- Vice President of India – V. V. Giri until 3 May; Gopal Swarup Pathak
- Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
- Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
- Bihar – Nityanand Kanungo
- Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
- Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
- Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
- Karnataka – Gopal Swarup Pathak, vacant thereafter
- Kerala – V. Viswanathan
- Madhya Pradesh – K. Chengalaraya Reddy
- Maharashtra – P V Cherian, vacant thereafter
- Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
- Odisha – Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
- Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
- Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh
- Tamil Nadu – Sardar Ujjal Singh
- Uttar Pradesh – Bezawada Gopala Reddy
- West Bengal –
- * until 1 April: Dharma Vira
- * 1 April-19 September: Deep Narayan Sinha
- * starting 19 September: Shanti Swaroop Dhavan
Events
- National income - 438,360 million
- 14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law.
- 1 March - The first Rajdhani Express commenced its journey between Delhi and Howrah.
- 12 July – Congress Parliamentary Board at Bangalore nominated Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as Congress's candidate for the post of President of India by a vote of four to two.
- 19 July -
- * 14 major private banks nationalized
- * Morarji Desai resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of India.
- 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots.
- 12 November – Congress Working Committee headed by S. Nijalingappa removed Indira Gandhi from primary membership of Congress Party.
- Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
- Rajdhani Express was introduced
- Indian Space Research Organisation was set up
- Central Industrial Security Force came into existence
Law
• Registration of Births and Death ActBirths
- 24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army..
- 2 April Ajay Devgan, actor and producer.
- 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army..
- 24 August Mukesh Tiwari, actor.
- 4 November Rupini, actress.
- 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
- 25 November Sukanya, actress and dancer.
- 11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.
Full date unknown
- Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.
- M. Yoganathan, environmental activist.
Deaths
- 27 January – Anukulchandra Chakravarty, social reformer and philanthropist
- 31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master.
- 23 February – Madhubala, actress.
- 3 May – Zakir Husain, politician and third President of India.
- 13 June – Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement.
- 28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer.