1969 in India

• President of India – Zakir Hussain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July (acting president), Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August (acting president), V. V. Giri
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
• Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

• 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots

Exact date unknown

• Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
• Rajdhani Express was introduced in 1969.
• 14 banks nationalized by Indira Gandhi
• India was close to insolvency in 1969
• ISRO was set up
• CISF came into existence in 1969

• 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
• 11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

• 31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (born 1894).
• 10 January -Sampurnanand, writer and politician (born 1891).
• 23 February – Madhubala, actress (born 1933).
• 3 May – Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India (born 1897).
• 13 June - Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukt Maharashtra Movement (born 1898).
• 28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (born 1920).

• Bollywood films of 1969

2 February C.N.Annadurai politician-chief Minister of Tamil Nadu(State of India)