1969 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Zakir Hussain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July, Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August, V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

  Governors

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

  Events

• 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots

• Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
• Rajdhani Express was introduced in 1969.
• 14 banks nationalized by Indira Gandhi
• India was close to insolvency in 1969
• ISRO was set up
• CISF came into existence in 1969

  Births

• 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
• 11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

  Full date unknown

• Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.

  Deaths

• 31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master.
• 10 January -Sampurnanand, writer and politician.
• 23 February – Madhubala, actress.
• 3 May – Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India.
• 13 June - Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukt Maharashtra Movement.
• 28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer.