See also: 1944 in India, other events of 1945, 1946 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

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.

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.

Deaths

• 18 August - Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement (b.1897).