The following lists events that happened during 1962 in the Republic of India.

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

• Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 8 September), Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh (starting 8 September)
• Assam – Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh (until 7 September), Vishnu Sahay (starting 7 September)
• Bihar – Zakir Hussain (until 11 May), M. A. S. Ayyangar (starting 11 May)
• Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – V. V. Giri
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Maharashtra –
  • until 16 April: Sri Prakasa
  • 16 April-6 October: P. Subbarayan
  • starting 28 November: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (until 15 September), Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 15 September)
• Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (until 1 October), Pattom A. Thanu Pillai (starting 1 October)
• Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh (until 16 April), Sampurnanand (starting 16 April)
• Uttar Pradesh – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao (until 15 April), Bishwanath Das (starting 15 April)
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

• National income - ₹200,769 million
• 10 February - Indian National Committee for Space Research set up with Vikram Sarabhai from Physical Research Laboratory leading it.
• 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 (between India and the People's Republic of China).
• 20 October – Chinese troops invade Kashmir and illegally captured Aksai Chin thereby starting the Sino-Indian War.
• 26 October - Emergency enforced in India for the first time following the Sino-Indian War.^[1]
• 21 November – China withdraws troops from Arunachal Pradesh and orders ceasefire along the McMahon Line.
• 19 December – The last foreign-occupied territory of India, Daman and Diu, is integrated into India.
• Internment of Chinese-Indians at Deoli, Rajasthan^[2]

• 28 October – Defence of India act and Defence of India rules, 1962 promulgated as ordinance.
• The twelfth and Thirteenth Amendment of The Constitution of India

• 1 January – Ravi Raghavendra, actor.
• 17 January – Karan Kapoor, actor, model and photographer.
• 12 February – Jagapathi Babu, actor.
• 12 February – Kanal Kannan, actor, action choreographer and screenwriter.
• 17 March – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American Astronaut and First Indian women to go to space. (died 2003).
• 31 March – Ramki, actor.
• 3 April – Jaya Prada, actress and politician.
• 7 April – Ram Gopal Varma, film director, writer and producer.
• 13 May – Acharya Shri Mahashraman, 11th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect
• 27 May – Ravi Shastri, cricketer.
• 5 June – C. Sylendra Babu, Indian Police Service Officer.
• 14 June – Jayaprakash, actor and producer
• 9 June – N. K. Senthamarai Kannan, Indian Police Service Officer.
• 3 July – U. Sagayam, former career Indian civil servant
• 6 July – Thota Narasimham, Indian politician and member of parliament from Kakinada.
• 12 July – Shiva Rajkumar, actor and producer.
• 4 August – Thalaivasal Vijay, actor and dubbing artist
• 10 August – Atiq Ahmed, gangster and politician. (d. 2023)
• 15 August – Arjun Sarja, actor, producer and director.
• 25 August – Rajiv Kapoor, actor, producer and director. (d. 2021)
• 4 September – Kiran More, cricketer.
• 16 November – Ambika, actress.

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

• 11 June – Chhabi Biswas, actor (b. 1900).
• 1 July – Bidhan Chandra Roy, second Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1882).
• 4 December – Annapurnanand, Hindi writer (B 21 Sep. 1895)

• K. C. Dey, actor (b. 1893).

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