1966 in India

Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.

Events

 * National income - ₹321,058 million

January - May

 * 3 January – Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan agree to the Tashkent Declaration, a peace pact mediated by the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R.
 * 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.
 * 19 January – Supported by provincial Congress chief ministers, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
 * 24 January - Air India Flight 101 crashed into Mont Blanc killing the 117 passengers including Homi J. Bhabha who was in the flight. There was a similar aviation accident in the same spot in 1950.
 * 5 March - Indian Air Force bombs Aizawl following Mizo National Front uprising.
 * 28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
 * 20 April – Lumding Train Bombing occurs on the North-East Frontier Railway.

June - December

 * 6 June - First Indira Gandhi ministry devalues Indian rupee by 57%.
 * 10 June - President of India promulgates Jayanti Shipping Company (Taking Over of Management) Ordinance, 1966 to take over shipping company owned by Jayanti Dharma Teja.
 * 19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
 * 12 July – Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
 * 7 November - 1966 anti-cow slaughter agitation and ensuing violence took place.
 * 17 November – Reita Faria, [Eve's Weekly Miss India] is crowned Miss World 1966, the first Indian to win the title.

Law

 * 27 August – Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
 * 11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
 * 22 December – Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
 * 29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.

Sport

 * Krishan Lal, (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

 * 3 January – Chetan Sharma, cricketer
 * 11 January – Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated (d.2007).
 * 22 January - Kesineni Srinivas, politician and member of parliament from Vijayawada.
 * 28 January – Anjani Kumar, 1990 batch IPS officer
 * 22 February – Babu Antony, actor and martial artist.
 * 24 March - Galla Jayadev, politician and member of parliament from Guntur.
 * 30 March – Vikraman, film director.
 * Vikram at the ‘Kadaram Kondan’ Press Meet.jpg April – [[Vikram (actor)|Vikram]], actor.
 * 3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
 * 15 May – M. Kumaran, politician.
 * 30 May – Rajinder Garg, politician.
 * 8 July – Revathi, actress.
 * 14 July – Sachin Puthran, entrepreneur.
 * 28 August – Priya Dutt, politician.
 * 1 September - Sonam Wangchuk, Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist.
 * 24 October – Nadhiya, actress.
 * 30 October – K. V. Anand, cinematographer and film director (d. 2021)
 * 28 November – P. Ravi Shankar, actor, dubbing artist, director and writer.
 * 5 December – Dayanidhi Maran, politician.

Full date unknown

 * Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and journalist.
 * September – Faisal Khan, actor.

Deaths

 * 11 January – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904).
 * Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (b. 1921).
 * 24 January – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist.
 * 26 February - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1883).