Events in the year 1965 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Prime Minister of India – Lal Bahadur Shastri Vice President of India – Zakir Husain Chief Justice of India – P. B. Gajendragadkar
Governors Andhra Pradesh – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai Assam – Vishnu Sahay Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung (until 1 August), Nityanand Kanungo (starting 1 August) Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh (until 2 April), V. V. Giri (starting 2 April) Kerala – V. V. Giri (until 2 April), Ajith Prasad Jain (starting 2 April) Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar (until 10 February), K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February) Maharashtra – P V Cherian Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla Punjab – Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (until 1 September), Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 1 September) Rajasthan – Sampurnanand Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events National income - 283,600 million 14 January - Food Corporation of India was founded. 26 January – Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India because of which Hindi does not get "National Language" status and remains one of the 2 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 14 - Sheikh Abdullah kept at custody in Kodaikanal for two years from July 1965 - June 1967. 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. 6–22 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. October - Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission by Central Intelligence Agency. 1 December – The Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders. Femina Miss India held for the first time Births 14 March – Aamir Khan, actor and film producer. 26 March Prakash Raj, actor and film director. 23 April – Jamling Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber. 25 April – Brahmaji, actor. 3 June Radha, actress. 19 June – Ashish Vidyarthi, actor. 2 July – Krishna Bhagavaan, actor. 15 August Raghavendra Rajkumar, actor and producer. 19 August – Hemant Birje, actor 2 September – Partho Sen-Gupta, independent film director and script writer. 13 September – Jafar Masood Hasani Nadwi, Sunni Muslim scholar (d. 2025) 27 September – Sudha Chandran, dancer, actress. 11 October – Ronit Roy, film and television actor 1 November – Padmini Kolhapure, actress. 30 November – Tashi Tenzing, mountain climber. 10 December – Jayaram, actor. 25 December – Swami Ramdev, Yogguru. 27 December – Salman Khan, actor, film producer and television host. 01 June- Dr. Jayarama Reddy, Professor at St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru, Author, Scientist and You Tuber.
Full date unknown S. Joseph, poet. Amita Kanekar, novelist.
Deaths 19 January – Basanta Kumar Das, politician (b. 1983). 21 January – Geeta Bali, actress (b. 1930). 3 March – Amirbai Karnataki, actress and singer (b. c1906).
Full date unknown Motilal, actor (b. 1910). A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (b. 1894).
See also Bollywood films of 1965
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