1969 in India

Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

 * President of India – Zakir Husain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July (acting president), Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August (acting president), V. V. Giri
 * Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
 * Vice President of India – V. V. Giri until 3 May; Gopal Swarup Pathak
 * Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
 * Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
 * Bihar – Nityanand Kanungo
 * Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
 * Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
 * Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
 * Karnataka – Gopal Swarup Pathak (until 30 August), vacant thereafter (starting 30 August)
 * Kerala – V. Viswanathan
 * Madhya Pradesh – K. Chengalaraya Reddy
 * Maharashtra – P V Cherian (until 8 November), vacant thereafter (starting 8 November)
 * Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
 * Odisha – Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
 * Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
 * Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh
 * Tamil Nadu – Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 14 January)
 * Uttar Pradesh – Bezawada Gopala Reddy
 * West Bengal –
 * until 1 April: Dharma Vira
 * 1 April-19 September: Deep Narayan Sinha
 * starting 19 September: Shanti Swaroop Dhavan

Events

 * National income - ₹438,360 million
 * 14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law.
 * 12 July – Congress Parliamentary Board at Bangalore nominated Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as Congress's candidate for the post of President of India by a vote of four to two.
 * 19 July – Morarji Desai resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of India.
 * 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots
 * 12 November – Congress Working Committee headed by S. Nijalingappa removed Indira Gandhi from primary membership of Congress Party.
 * Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
 * Rajdhani Express was introduced
 * 14 banks nationalized
 * Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was set up
 * Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) came into existence (10 March 1969)

Law.
• Registration of Births and Death Act ( RBD Act)

Births

 * 24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army. (died 1999).
 * 2 April – Ajay Devgan, actor and producer.
 * 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
 * 24 August – Mukesh Tiwari, actor.
 * 4 November – Rupini, actress.
 * 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
 * 25 November – Sukanya, actress and dancer.
 * Vishi Anand-29-4-17.jpg December – [[Viswanathan Anand]], chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

Full date unknown

 * Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.
 * M. Yoganathan, environmental activist.

Deaths

 * 27 January – Anukulchandra Chakravarty, social reformer and philanthropist (born 1888)
 * 31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (born 1894).
 * 23 February – Madhubala, actress (born 1933).
 * 3 May – Zakir Husain, politician and third President of India (born 1897).
 * 13 June – Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement (born 1898).
 * 28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (born 1920).