The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents President of India – Rajendra Prasad until 13 May, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan until 13 May; Zakir Husain Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
Governors Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 8 September), Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 8 September) Assam – Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until 7 September), Vishnu Sahay (starting 7 September) Bihar – Zakir Hussain (until 11 May), M. A. S. Ayyangar (starting 11 May) Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh Mysore – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar Kerala – V. V. Giri Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar Maharashtra – until 16 April: Sri Prakasa 16 April-6 October: P. Subbarayan starting 28 November: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (until 15 September), Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 15 September) Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (until 1 October), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting 1 October) Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh (until 16 April), Sampurnanand (starting 16 April) Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (until 15 April), Bishwanath Das (starting 15 April) West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events National income - 200,769 million 10 February - Indian National Committee for Space Research set up with Vikram Sarabhai from Physical Research Laboratory leading it. 3 April – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India. 6 May – India defeats the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final of 1962 Davis Cup at New Delhi 28 July – A locust swarm threatens New Delhi. 21 September – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting. 10 October – Beginning of the Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (between India and the People's Republic of China). 20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and illegally captured Aksai Chin thereby starting the Sino-Indian War. 26 October - Emergency enforced in India for the first time following the Sino-Indian War. 21 November – The 1962 war ends with a Chinese Victory and India surrenders Aksai Chin to China. China withdraws troops from Arunachal Pradesh and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line. 19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India. Internment of Chinese-Indians at Deoli, Rajasthan
Law 28 October – Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962 promulgated as ordinance. The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India
Births 1 January – Ravi Raghavendra, actor. 17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer. 12 February Jagapathi Babu, actor. 12 February Kanal Kannan, actor, action choreographer and screenwriter. 17 March Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American Astronaut and First Indian women to go to space. (died 2003). 31 March Ramki, actor. 3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician. 7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer. 13 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman, 11th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect 27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer. 5 June – C. Sylendra Babu, Indian Police Service Officer. 14 June – Jayaprakash, actor and producer 9 June – N. K. Senthamarai Kannan, Indian Police Service Officer. 3 July – U. Sagayam, former career Indian civil servant 6 July – Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada. 12 July Shiva Rajkumar, actor and producer. 4 August Thalaivasal Vijay, actor and dubbing artist 10 August Atiq Ahmed, gangster and politician. (d. 2023) 15 August Arjun Sarja, actor, producer and director. 25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director. (d. 2021) 4 September – Kiran More, cricketer. 16 November Ambika, actress.
Full date unknown Sucheta Dalal, finance journalist. Madhavi, actress.
Deaths 11 June – Chhabi Biswas, actor (b. 1900). 1 July – Bidhan Chandra Roy, second Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1882). 4 December – Annapurnanand, Hindi writer (B 21 Sep. 1895)
Full date unknown K. C. Dey, actor (b. 1893).
See also List of Bollywood films of 1962
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