1965 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Chief Justice of India – P. B. Gajendragadkar

  Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Haryana –
• Himachal Pradesh –
• Jammu and Kashmir –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

January to June

• 26 January 1950– 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 attempt to 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.
• 27 September - Sudha Chandran, dancer, actress.
• 1 November – Padmini Kolhapure, actress.
• 2 November – Shahrukh Khan, actor, film producer and television host.
• 30 November – Tashi Tenzing, mountain climber.
• 25 December – Baba Ramdev, Yogguru.
• 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.
• 3 March – Amirbai Karnataki, actress and singer.

  Full date unknown

• Motilal, actor.
• A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo.