1964 in India

Events in the year 1964 in the Republic of India.

1964 cyclone

Incumbents

 * President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
 * Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru until 27 May, Gulzarilal Nanda until 9 June (acting Prime Minister), Lal Bahadur Shastri
 * Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
 * Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until May 4), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting May 4)
 * Assam – Vishnu Sahay
 * Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
 * Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
 * Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh
 * Kerala – V. V. Giri
 * Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
 * Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (until 18 October), P V Cherian (starting 14 November)
 * Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
 * Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
 * Punjab – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (until 4 May), Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (starting 4 May)
 * Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
 * Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
 * West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

 * National income - ₹268,953 million
 * January 4 - The lost relic recovered in connection with 1963 Hazratbal Shrine theft.
 * April 8 - Jammu and Kashmir (state) withdrew the Kashmir Conspiracy Case from a special court.
 * April 11 - Thirty two Council members walks out of Communist Party of India National Council resulting in the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India.
 * May 27 – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
 * July 1 - IDBI Bank was established through an Act of Parliament.
 * August 29 - The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.
 * October 30 - Sirima–Shastri Pact signed to grant citizenship to almost 9 lakhs Tamils based in Ceylon.

Law

 * The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India

Arts and literature

 * 2 September – Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature.
 * National Film Archive of India established in Pune.

Sport

 * Charanjeet Singh (hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

 * 9 January – Arjun, actor.
 * 20 January – Fareed Zakaria, journalist
 * 16 February – Shrirang Barne, politician, Member of Parliament from Maval constituency
 * 30 April – Abhishek Chatterjee, Bengali film and television actor.
 * 19 May – Murali, actor. (died 2010).
 * 1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident).
 * 22 October – Amit Shah, politician.
 * 13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
 * 26 August – Ilavarasu, cinematographer and actor.
 * 10 September – Ramesh Aravind, actor and director.
 * 23 September – Ponvannan, actor and director.
 * 29 October – Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
 * 14 November – Manoj Singh Mandavi, politician (died 2022).

Full date unknown

 * Bem Le Hunte, author.

Deaths

 * 27 May – Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889).
 * 6 February – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, freedom fighter, social activist and Health Minister (b. 1887).
 * 10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor (b. 1925).