1977 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until 11 February, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi until 24 March, Morarji Desai.
• Chief Justice of India – Ajit Nath Ray, Mirza Hameedullah Beg

  Governors

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

  Events

• March – The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections. Morarji Desai becomes prime minister.
• 3 March – Nehru Planetarium commissioned.
• November – More than 10,000 people die when the 1977 Andhra Pradesh cyclone hits India's southeast coast. The storm disrupts life for 5.4 million people in 830 villages, and damages 14,000 km² of cropland.

  Births

• 14 January – Narain Karthikeyan, motor racing driver
• 27 January – Deepshikha Nagpal, actress
• 31 January – Suchitra Singh, cricketer
• 16 February – Darshan Thoogudeep, actor and film producer
• 21 February – Ranjith, singer and composer
• 23 March – Smriti Irani, actress and politician
• 4 April – Shamshuddin Ibrahim, model and actor
• 19 April – Anju Bobby George, athlete
• 24 May – Jeet Gannguli, singer, music director and score composer
• 25 May – Karthik Sivakumar, actor
• 2 July – Ganesh, actor
• 29 August – Vishal Krishna, actor and film producer
• 29 August – P. V. Midhun Reddy, politician and former member of parliament from Rajampet
• 18 October – Jyothika, actress
• 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor
• 24 November – Dilip Tirkey, field hockey player

  Full date unknown

• Rajorshi Chakraborti, novelist.
• Vasundhara Das, actress and singer.

  Deaths

• 11 February – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, fifth President of India
• 22 March – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader.
• 14 November – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder–acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

  Full date unknown

• Hamid Dalwai, social reformer and writer.
• Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur'an.