1976 in India

Events in the year 1976 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

Andhra Pradesh –
* until 10 January: S. Obul Reddy
* 10 January-15 June: Mohanlal Sukhadia
* starting 15 June: Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
Assam – L. P. Singh
Bihar – Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare
Gujarat – Kambanthodath Kunhan Vishwanatham
Haryana –
* until 26 March: Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
* 27 March-13 August: Ranjit Singh Narula
* starting 13 August: Jaisukh Lal Hathi
Himachal Pradesh – S. Chakravarti
Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
Karnataka – Uma Shankar Dikshit
Kerala – N. N. Wanchoo
Madhya Pradesh – Satya Narayan Sinha
Maharashtra – Ali Yavar Jung, vacant thereafter
Manipur – L.P. Singh
Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
Nagaland – L.P. Singh
Odisha – Akbar Ali Khan, Shiva Narayan Shankar
Punjab – Mahendra Mohan Choudhry
Rajasthan – Sardar Jogendra Singh
Sikkim – B. B. Lal
Tamil Nadu – Kodardas Kalidas Shah, Mohan Lal Sukhadia
Tripura – L. P. Singh
Uttar Pradesh – Akbar Ali Khan
West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias

Events

National income - 918,117 million
2 March - The Rajan case, a famous case of Police brutality during the Emergency Period. The victim, P. Rajan, a final year Engineering student at Regional Engineering College, Calicut was arrested by police, taken to Kakkayam and allegedly tortured severely which led to his death. It is believed that his body was thrown into the Kakkayam Dam.
16 April – A family planning initiative involves the vasectomy of thousands of men and tubal ligation of women, either for payment or under coercive conditions. The son of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, is largely blamed for what turned out to be a failed program. A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues into the 21st century.
10 June – George Fernandes arrested from Calcutta during the [The The Emergency (India)|Emergency (India)|Emergency].
4 October - Congress leader and Beary social worker Kalladka Ismail assassinated by RSS affiliates in Kanara.
12 October - Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashed in Bombay killing all 95 on board.
6 November - Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India’s Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
15 November – Subramanian Swamy was expelled from Rajya Sabha for his campaign against the Emergency in foreign countries.

Law

The 42nd amendment Act, 1976, was enacted during the Emergency by the Indian National Congress government headed by Indira Gandhi.

Births

January to June

29 February - Gagan Malik, Indian Television Actor
1 March - Shoeb Shakeel, Lawyer.
4 April – Simran Bagga, actress.
9 April – Rohit Gupta, writer and inventor.
9 April – Nithin Sathya, actor.
12 May - Vikas Sethi, Indian Television Actor
21 May – Aditi Gowitrikar, model, actress and physician.
9 June – Amisha Patel, actress.
5 June Rambha, actress.
7 June Pandiraj, film director.
29 June – Saurabh Kalia, Military officer-KARGIL HERO..

July to December

20 July – Debashish Mohanty, cricketer.
12 August – Baljit Singh Saini, field hockey player.
3 September – Vivek Oberoi, actor
5 September Chandrabhan Singh Aakya, politician
16 September Meena, actress.
19 September – Ishaa Koppikar, actress and model.
8 October – Jinnih Beels, Belgian politician
27 October Pooja Batra, actress.
29 October Raghava Lawrence, actor, choreographer, director.
14 November – Hemang Badani, cricketer.
15 December – Baichung Bhutia, soccer player.

Deaths

25 January – Swami Anand, Gandhi activist and writer
2 March - P. Rajan, college student and victim of Police brutality
28 July – T. Nagi Reddy, communist politician.
27 August – Mukesh, playback singer.
2 September – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer.