1975 in India

Sports

• India won the Men's Hockey World Cup first time. It was held in kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray

  Governors

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

  Events

• 19 January – The 6.8 Kinnaur earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX. Forty-seven people were killed.
• 19 April – The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, goes into Earth's orbit.
• 16 May – Sikkim annexed to India after a deposing the monarchy.
• 25 June – A state of emergency is declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during which the press is censored and 100,000 are jailed.
• Chasnala mining disaster

  Births

January to June

• 31 January – Preity Zinta, actress.
• 17 March – Puneeth Rajkumar, actor and son of Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada.
• 28 March – Akshaye Khanna, actor and son of Vinod Khanna.
• 17 May – Dinesh Nayak, field hockey player.
• 26 May – Abbas, actor.
• 4 June – Bhuvaneshwari, actress.

  July to December

• 6 July – Jeevan
• 28 August – Eijaz Khan, actor.
• 16 October – Rajeev Khandelwal, actor.
• 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor.
• 11 November – Diwakar Pundir, actor.
• 19 November – Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1994, actress.
• 9 December – Priya Gill, actress.
• 14 December – Sukhbir Singh Gill, field hockey player.

  Deaths

• 17 April – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India.