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Events in the year 1965 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

  • President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  • Prime Minister of India – Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
  • Chief Justice of India – P. B. Gajendragadkar

Governors

  • Andhra Pradesh – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
  • Assam – Vishnu Sahay
  • Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
  • Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung (until 1 August), Nityanand Kanungo (starting 1 August)
  • Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh
  • Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh (until 2 April), V. V. Giri (starting 2 April)
  • Kerala – V. V. Giri (until 2 April), Ajith Prasad Jain (starting 2 April)
  • Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar (until 10 February), K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February)
  • Maharashtra – P V Cherian
  • Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
  • Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
  • Punjab – Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (until 1 September), Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 1 September)
  • 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

  • thumb|167x167px|[[Aamir Khan]]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 (d. 2025)
  • 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 (b. 1983).
  • 21 January – Geeta Bali, actress (b. 1930).
  • 3 March – Amirbai Karnataki, actress and singer (b. c1906).

Full date unknown

  • Motilal, actor (b. 1910).
  • A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (b. 1894).

See also

  • Bollywood films of 1965

References