1985 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Zail Singh
• Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati

  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

• 10 April – Chakravarty Committee was set up by the RBI to review the working of monetary system. Its recommendations had far reaching consequences eventually removing India from the 500-year old silver standard
• 23 June – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
• By mid-1985, the statutory preemption on banks' resources in the form of the Statutory Liquidity Ratio and the Cash Reserve Ratio exceeded 45%.
• The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is passed by Parliament.
• The Administrative tribunals in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Allahabad were established by Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.
• The Special Protection Group is created.
• Indira Gandhi National Open University is established by an Act of Indian Parliament.
• Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act is passed by parliament.
• Texas Instruments, a Multinational corporation, starts its India operations in Bangalore and helps create infrastructure to export software via satellite communications from India for the first time.

  Births

• 22 February – Bombayla Devi Laishram, archer.
• 26 March - Kedar Jadhav, Cricketer.
• 6 April – Jai, actor.
• 9 May – Neha Bamb, actress.
• 15 May - Tathagata Mukherjee, actor.
• 1 June - Dinesh Karthik, cricketer.
• 19 June – Kajal Aggarwal, actress.
• 23 September - Ambati Rayudu, cricketer.
• 1 November - Anand Ambani, Business Magnet.
• 11 November – Robin Uthappa, cricketer.
• 5 December - Shikhar Dhawan, cricketer.

  Deaths

• 6 November – Sanjeev Kumar, actor.