1972 in India

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See also:	List of years in India; Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1972 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

21 January – Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya gets statehood.
19 March – India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, after the withdrawal of the Indian troops.
14 June - Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashed at Palam, Delhi killing 82 of the 87 on board.
26 June - Reserve Bank of India fixes buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.2910 and £5.2632 per Rs. 100 following the Government of the United Kingdom decision to float Pound sterling on 23 June. However the central rate remain unchanged at £5.2721 per Rs. 100.^[1]

2 July – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic bilateral Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes peacefully.
4 July - Reserve Bank of India revises buying and selling rates of Pound sterling with Indian rupee at £5.3333 and £5.3050 per Rs. 100 and kept central rates unchanged.
10 July – A stampede of elephants kills 24 people in the Chandaka Forest, Orissa.^[2]
August - Expulsion of Indians from Uganda
17 October - M. G. Ramachandran, forms the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by splitting from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam starting a new phase in Dravidian movement.^[3]
19 October - Indian businessman Jayanti Dharma Teja sentenced to three year imprisonment for falsification of accounts of Jayanti Shipping Company.^[4]
15 November - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was formed for independent statehood of Jharkhand from Bihar on birthday of Birsa Munda

5 April - Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers (Amendment) Act amended to include new states and union territories of Northeast India.
15 August - Postal Index Number (PIN Code) introduced in India.
9 September - Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 enacted.
31 October – Supreme Court of India began hearing of Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala case.^[5]

Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
24 February – Pooja Bhatt, actress, producer and director.
28 March – Eby J. Jose, journalist and human rights activist
15 April – Mandira Bedi, actress, model and television presenter.
20 April – Mamta Kulkarni, actress.
17 May – T. Udhayachandran, IAS.
25 May - Karan Johar,actor,host,director and producer.
Sundar Pichai
10 June – Sundar Pichai, CEO Alphabet Inc.
John Abraham

Sourav Ganguly
8 July – Sourav Ganguly, cricketer.^[6]
28 July – Ayesha Jhulka, actress.
17 November – Roja Selvamani, actress and politician.
18 November – Zubeen Garg, Indian singer and actor
T. Udhayachandran
17 December – John Abraham, actor.
21 December – Jagan Mohan Reddy, politician.
26 December – Hari Gopalakrishnan, film director.

31 March – Meena Kumari, actress (b. 1932).
14 April – George Reddy, Student and PDSU leader at OU campus Hyderabad (b. 1947).
29 May – Prithviraj Kapoor, actor and director (b. 1906).
20 July – Geeta Dutt, playback singer (b. 1930).
24 August – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, freedom fighter and Tamil poet (b. 1888).

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^ "July 10 in history: Martin Luther King Jr. arrested, mass killing of stampeding elephants, and more". WION. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ Ramakrishnan, T. (18 October 2021). "A look at the events leading up to the birth of AIADMK". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^ Mitra, Sumit (24 July 1983). "Jayanti Dharma Teja: An unheralded comeback". India Today. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
^ Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 260. ISBN 0195648889.
^ "Sourav Ganguly". Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 January 2021.