1967 in India

← 1966 1965 1964 1967 in India → 1968 1969 1970
Millennia:	1st 2nd 3rd
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1967 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan until 13 May, Zakir Hussain
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi

Events

• 6 May - Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
• 27 May - Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

Sport

• Prithipal Singh and Shankar Lakshman (hockey players) are awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

January to June

• 15 January - Bhanupriya, actress.
• 12 February - N. Ravikiran, composer of Carnatic music.
• 22 February - Prashant Kausadikar, an economist
• 24 March - Prithvi, actor.
• 2 April - Ajay Devgan, actor.
• 15 May - Madhuri Dixit, actress.
• 1 June - Anil Bhardwaj, scientist.

July to December

• 14 July - Prakash Kona, novelist, essayist and poet.
• 27 July - Rahul Bose, actor, screenwriter, film director and social activist.
• 4 August - Arbaaz Khan, actor.
• 9 September - Akshay Kumar, actor.
• 15 September - Ramya Krishnan, actress.
• 30 September - Deepti Bhatnagar, actress and television presenter.
• 13 November - Juhi Chawla, actress, film producer and television presenter.

Full date unknown

• Sanjana Kapoor, actress and theatre director.

Deaths

• 22 January - Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian (b. 1884).
• Krishna Hutheesing, political activist and writer (b. 1907).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1967