1968 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Zakir Hussain
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Kailas Nath Wanchoo, Mohammad Hidayatullah

  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

• February – The Beatles, Mia Farrow, and several other celebrities visit the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India to study transcendental meditation.
• Kilvenmani massacre, 44 Dalits burnt to death on 25 December, in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu.

Births

• 10 January Atul Khatri, comedian
• 21 January - Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Carnatic vocalist
• 1 March – Kunjarani Devi, weightlifter.
• 19 April – Arshad Warsi, actor.
• 14 June – Raj Thackeray, founder and president of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
• 16 July – Dhanraj Pillay, field hockey player.
• 15 August - Anil Kumar Awana, politician.
• 29 September – Samir Soni, actor.
• 9 November – Neelam, former actress, jewellery designer.

  Full date unknown

• Abu Salem, mobster.

  Deaths

• A. R. Krishnashastry, writer, researcher and translator.
• 19 November – Shri Rang Avadhoot, Saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord Dattatreya,