1976 in India

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

• 16 April – A family planning initiative involves the vasectomy of thousands of men and tubal ligation of women, either for payment or under coercive conditions. The son of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, is largely blamed for what turned out to be a failed program. A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues into the 21st century.

  Births

January to June

• 5 February – Abhishek Bachchan, actor.
• 4 April – Simran Bagga, actress.
• 9 April – Rohit Gupta, writer and inventor.
• 9 April – Nithin Sathya, actor.
• 21 May – Aditi Gowitrikar, model, actress and physician.
• 9 June – Amisha Patel, actress.

  July to December

• 12 August – Baljit Singh Saini, field hockey player.
• 15 August - Raja Mukhtar, Pentecostal Pastor, Evangelist and Bible Teacher.
• 27 October – Pooja Batra, actress.
• 19 September – Ishaa Koppikar, actress and model.
• 15 December – Baichung Bhutia, soccer player.

  Deaths

• 25 January – Swami Anand, Gandhi activist and writer
• 28 July – T. Nagi Reddy, communist politician.
• 27 August – Mukesh, playback singer.
• 2 September – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer.