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See also: 1973 in India, other events of 1974, 1975 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 3.1 Full date unknown 4 See also

[edit] Events

• January to May smallpox epidemic
• 18 May - Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its second nuclear weapon near the Pakistani border, the first time in the country openly becomes the sixth nation to do so.
• Vishwa Bandhu Gupta built India’s first "human powered kite".
• 1974 railway strike in India

[edit] Births

• 1 January - Abha Dawesar, novelist.
• 7 January - Varun Badola, actor.
• 8 March - Fardeen Khan, actor.
• 15 April - Paromita Chatterjee, television presenter.
• 22 April - Chetan Bhagat, novelist.
• 7 June - Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player.
• 22 June - Joseph Vijay, actor and playback singer.
• 25 June - Karisma Kapoor, actress.
• 23 October - Aravind Adiga, journalist and author, 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.
• 1 November - V. V. S. Laxman, cricketer.

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• Manjeet Kullar, actress.

[edit] Deaths

• 4 February - Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (b.1894).
• 23 September - Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist (b.1919).
• 6 October - V. K. Krishna Menon, nationalist and politician (b.1897).
• 16 October - Chembai, Carnatic music singer (b.1895).
• 16 October - Edasseri Govindan Nair, poet, playwright and essayist (b.1906).

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• J. P. Chandrababu, comedian-actor, singer and dancer (b.1926).
• Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (b.1896).
• Sucheta Kriplani, freedom fighter, politician and in Uttar Pradesh, became first woman to be elected Chief Minister of a state (b.1908).
• Matthew Pothen Thekaekara, scientist (b.1914).

[edit] See also

• Timeline of Indian history