Events

• 18 August - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of Indian Freedom movement leaders, allegedly dies in a plane crash in Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  .
• 20 September - Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
  
   demand that British troops leave India.
• 29 November - Bajaj Auto
  Bajaj Auto
  Bajaj Auto is a major Indian vehicle manufacturer started by Jamnalal Bajaj from Rajasthan in the 1930s. It is based in Pune, Maharashtra, with plants in Chakan , Waluj and Pantnagar in Uttaranchal. The oldest plant at Akurdi now houses the R&D centre Ahead...
  
   comes into existence.
• All India Council for Technical Education
  All India Council for Technical Education
  The All India Council for Technical Education is the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development...
  
   is established.

Births

• 13 February - Vinod Mehra
  Vinod Mehra
  Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...
  
  , actor (d.1990
  1990 in India
  Events in the year 1990 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – R. Venkataraman* Prime Minister of India – V. P. Singh until November 10, Chandra Shekhar Singh-Events:...
  
  ).
• 17 March - Esther David
  Esther David
  Esther David is a Jewish-Indian author, an artist and a sculptor. She was born into a Bene Israel Jewish family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat....
  
  , author, artist and sculptor.
• 4 May - Narasimhan Ram, journalist.
• 20 May - Ibrahim Saeed
  Ibrahim Saeed
  Ibrahim Saeed [alternative spelling for second name, Sayeed, ] was the founder editor of Sanmarga, a Kannada weekly published from Mangalore. Ibrahim Saeed was a senior journalist and had served Sanmarga for three decades as editor until he was given the office of state president of Jamat-e-Isalmi...
  
  , journalist, editor and scholar (d.2007
  2007 in India
  -Incumbents:* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam until July 25, Pratibha Patil* Prime Minister of India – Manmohan Singh-Events:* January–November – Nandigram violence - Clashes between opposition parties, the governing Communist Party of India and police in Nandigram, West Bengal...
  
  ).
• 26 May - Vilasrao Deshmukh
  Vilasrao Deshmukh
  Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh , popularly known as Vilasrao is the current Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences....
  
  , politician and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• 1 July - Susham Bedi
  Susham Bedi
  Susham Bedi is a leading South Asian author of novels, short stories and poetry, currently living in the United States. She is a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York...
  
  , novelist, poet and short story writer.
• 24 July - Azim Premji
  Azim Premji
  Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian business tycoon and philanthropist who is the chairman of Wipro Limited, guiding the company through four decades of diversification and growth to emerge as one of the Indian leader in the software industry...
  
  , businessman.
• November - Subrahmaniam Nagarajan
  Subrahmaniam Nagarajan
  Subrahmaniam Nagarajan is an Indian wheat pathologist. He studied in Chennai till high school and completed his early education at the Agriculture College, Coimbatore, then pursued his masters at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi and received his doctorate in Agriculture from...
  
  , wheat
  Wheat
  Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
  
   pathologist.

Deaths

• 18 August - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement
  Indian independence movement
  The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...
  
   (b.1897
  1897 in India
  -Births:*23 January — Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement .*8 February — Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India ....
  
  ).