1964 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru until 27 May, Gulzarilal Nanda until 9 June, Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha until 31 January, P. B. Gajendragadkar

  Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

• 27 May – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.
• The Vishva Hindu Parishad is founded.
• Hazratbal disappearance episode
• The Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution of India
• IDBI Bank has established

  Arts and literature

• 2 September – Indian Hungry generation poets arrested on charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in literature.
• National Film Archive of India established in Pune.

  Sport

• Charanjeet Singh is awarded the Padma Shri.

  Births

• 16 February - Shrirang Barne, Politician, Member of Parliament from Maval constituency
• 30 April - Abhishek Chatterjee, Bengali film and television actor.
• 1 June – Rashid Patel, cricketer.
• 13 August – Harisree Ashokan, actor.
• 10 December – Jayaram, actor.

  Full date unknown

• Bem Le Hunte, author.

  Deaths

• 27 May – Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India.
• 6 February – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, freedom fighter, social activist and Health Minister.
• 10 October – Guru Dutt, film director, producer, and actor.