1962 in India

The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 8 September), Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 8 September)
Assam – Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until 7 September), Vishnu Sahay (starting 7 September)
Bihar – Zakir Hussain (until 11 May), M. A. S. Ayyangar (starting 11 May)
Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh
Mysore – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
Kerala – V. V. Giri
Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
Maharashtra –
until 16 April: Sri Prakasa
16 April-6 October: P. Subbarayan
starting 28 November: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (until 15 September), Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 15 September)
Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (until 1 October), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting 1 October)
Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh (until 16 April), Sampurnanand (starting 16 April)
Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (until 15 April), Bishwanath Das (starting 15 April)
West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

National income - 200,769 million
10 February - Indian National Committee for Space Research set up with Vikram Sarabhai from Physical Research Laboratory leading it.
3 April – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.
6 May – India defeats the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final of 1962 Davis Cup at New Delhi
28 July – A locust swarm threatens New Delhi.
21 September – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
10 October – Beginning of the Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (between India and the People's Republic of China).
20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and illegally captured Aksai Chin thereby starting the Sino-Indian War.
26 October - Emergency enforced in India for the first time following the Sino-Indian War.
21 November –
The 1962 war ends with a Chinese Victory and India surrenders Aksai Chin to China.
China withdraws troops from Arunachal Pradesh and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line.
19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India.
Internment of Chinese-Indians at Deoli, Rajasthan

28 October – Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962 promulgated as ordinance.
The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India

1 January – Ravi Raghavendra, actor.
17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer.
12 February Jagapathi Babu, actor.
12 February Kanal Kannan, actor, action choreographer and screenwriter.
17 March Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American Astronaut and First Indian women to go to space. (died 2003).
31 March Ramki, actor.
3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician.
7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer.
13 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman, 11th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect
27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer.
5 June – C. Sylendra Babu, Indian Police Service Officer.
14 June – Jayaprakash, actor and producer
9 June – N. K. Senthamarai Kannan, Indian Police Service Officer.
3 July – U. Sagayam, former career Indian civil servant
6 July – Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada.
12 July Shiva Rajkumar, actor and producer.
4 August Thalaivasal Vijay, actor and dubbing artist
10 August Atiq Ahmed, gangster and politician. (d. 2023)
15 August Arjun Sarja, actor, producer and director.
25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director. (d. 2021)
4 September – Kiran More, cricketer.
16 November Ambika, actress.