1965 in India

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 – Mahraja Karan Singh (starting 30 March)
 * 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
01 June- Dr. Jayarama Reddy, Professor at St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru, Author, Scientist and You Tuber.
 * Aamir Khan graces the first look launch of ‘Secret Superstar’.jpg 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.
 * 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.
 * 27 December – Salman Khan, actor, film producer and television host.

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).