1965 in India

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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

Events

January to June

• 26 January - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
• 26 January - Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India because of which Hindi does not get "National Language" status and remains one of the 23 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 to December

• 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 invade Lahore.
• 6 September-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.
• 1 December - The Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders.

Full date unknown

• Femina Miss India held for the first time.

Births

• 14 March - Aamir Khan, actor and film producer.
• 23 April - Jamling Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber.
• 2 July - Krishna Bhagavaan, actor.
• 2 September - Partho Sen-Gupta, independent film director and script writer.
• 1 November - Padmini Kolhapure, actress.
• 2 November - Shahrukh Khan, actor, film producer and television host.
• 30 November - Tashi Tenzing, mountain climber.
• 27 December - Salman Khan, actor.

Full date unknown

• S. Joseph, poet.
• Amita Kanekar, novelist.

Deaths

• 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