1966 in India

Incumbents

Governors

Events

• 3 January – Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan agree to the Tashkent Declaration, a peace pact mediated by the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R.
• 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.
• 19 January – Supported by provincial Congress chief ministers, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
• 28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C..
• 19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
• 12 July – Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
• 27 August – Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
• 17 November – Reita Faria, Femina Miss India is crowned Miss World 1966, the first Indian to win the title.
• 11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
• 22 December – Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
• 29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.

  Sport

• Krishan Lal, is awarded the Padma Shri.

  Births

• 11 January – Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated.
• 22 January - Kesineni Srinivas, politician and member of parliament from Vijayawada.
• 24 March - Galla Jayadev, politician and member of parliament from Guntur.
• 3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
• 14 July – Sachin Puthran, entrepreneur.
• 28 August – Priya Dutt, politician.
• September – Faisal Khan, actor.
• 5 December – Dayanidhi Maran, politician.

  Full date unknown

• Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and journalist.

  Deaths

• 11 January – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India.
• 21 January – Dr. Manubhai P. Vaidya, Educationist and recipient of Best Teacher Award from Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, The President of India.
• Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer.
• 24 January – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist.
• 26 February - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian Freedom Fighter, Extremist.