1992 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – R. Venkataraman until 25 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Prime Minister of India – P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Chief Justice of India – Madhukar Hiralal Kania until 17 November, Lalit Mohan Sharma

  Governors

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

  Events

• 1 February – Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from the United States.
• May – Over 200 people die in Cuttack in Odisha, after drinking illegally brewed liquor. About 600 people were hospitalised.
• 14 August Veerappan Gang Trapped and killed Mysore District SP, T.Harikrishna, SI Shakeel Ahmed and four constables named Benegonda, C.M.Kalappa, Sundara and M.P.Appachu, through a false informant near Meenyam in Karnataka
• 2 October - Zee Television, a Hindi language satellite and cable television station, a first officially regular broadcasting service to start in Mumbai.
• 6 December – Members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad tear down a 16th-century mosque located in Ayodhya, in Northern India. The mosque is built over a shrine which exhorted the small piece of land as Ram Janmabhoomi – the birthplace of Lord Rama. This sparks off nationwide communal riots in which some 3,000 people die.
• Government of India establishes SEBI, stock exchange regulator.
• Indian Rupee exchange rate collapsed. It was 20 Rs to 1 dollar in January 1992 and it became 30 Rs to 1 dollar in December 1992. A huge 50% depreciation in value.

  Births

• 5 January – Sanjay Balmuchu, footballer
• 30 January - Ranjith Narayanan, chess player
• 3 February - Aman Narang, author and playwright
• 27 February – Abigail Jain, actress
• 1 March – Alwyn George, footballer
• 18 April - K. L. Rahul, cricketer
• 4 July – Yuki Bhambri, tennis player
• 30 July – Vishal Kumar, football player
• 15 September – Shilton D'Silva, soccer player
• 2 October - Utkarsh S.,Industrialist
• 24 December – Soram Anganba, footballer
• 31 December – Manu Attri, badminton player
• 18 December - PUSHP KUMAR SHARMA, The Common Men
• 27 February - Dhiraj Patne, bodybuilder
• 7 August - Deepak Chahar, cricketer
• 15 August - Baskaran Adhiban, chess Grandmaster

  Deaths

• 27 January – Bharat Bhushan, actor.
• 23 April – Satyajit Ray, filmmaker.
• 17 July – Kanan Devi, actress and singer.
• 27 July – Amjad Khan, actor and director.
• 3 November – Prem Nath, actor.

  Full date unknown

• V. K. Gokak, writer and scholar.