1945 in India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1944 in India, other events of 1945, 1946 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.
[edit] Events
- 18 August - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of Indian Freedom movement leaders, allegedly dies in a plane crash in Taiwan.
- 20 September - Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that British troops leave India.
- 29 November - Bajaj Auto comes into existence.
- All India Council for Technical Education is established.
[edit] Births
- 13 February - Vinod Mehra, actor (d.1990).
- 17 March - Esther David, author, artist and sculptor.
- 4 May - Narasimhan Ram, journalist.
- 20 May - Ibrahim Saeed, journalist, editor and scholar (d.2007).
- 26 May - Vilasrao Deshmukh, politician and Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- 1 July - Susham Bedi, novelist, poet and short story writer.
- 24 July - Azim Premji, businessman.
- November - Subrahmaniam Nagarajan, wheat pathologist.
[edit] Deaths
- 18 August - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement (b.1897).
