1962 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – until 13 May, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

  Governors

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

• 3 April – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.
• 6 May – India defeats the Philippines in the Eastern Zone final of 1962 Davis Cup at New Delhi
• 28 July – A locust swarm threatens New Delhi.
• 21 September – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
• 10 October – Beginning of the Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations.
• 20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and capture Aksai Chin
• 21 November – China withdraws troops from South Tibet and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line.
• 19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India.
• The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India

  Births

• 17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer.
• 3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician.
• 7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer.
• 27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer.
• 6 July - Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada
• 25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director.
• 4 September – Kiran More, cricketer.

  Full date unknown

• Sucheta Dalal, finance journalist.
• Madhavi, actress.

  Deaths

• 11 June – Chhabi Biswas, actor.
• 1 July – Bidhan Chandra Roy, second Chief Minister of West Bengal.
• 4 December – Annapurnanand, Hindi writer

  Full date unknown

• K. C. Dey, actor.