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This is a list of events in India in the year 2012.

Incumbents

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India President Pratibha Patil (till 25 July)
Pranab Mukherjee (from 25 July)
India Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari
India Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
India Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia (till 28 September)
Altamas Kabir (starting 28 September)

Governors

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Post Name
Andhra Pradesh E. S. L. Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh Joginder Jaswant Singh
Assam Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
Bihar Devanand Konwar
Chhattisgarh Shekhar Dutt
Goa Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (until 4 May)
Bharat Vir Wanchoo (starting 4 May)
Gujarat Kamala Beniwal
Haryana Jagannath Pahadia
Himachal Pradesh Urmila Singh
Jammu and Kashmir Narinder Nath Vohra
Jharkhand Syed Ahmed
Karnataka Hansraj Bhardwaj
Kerala M. O. H. Farook (until 26 January)
Hansraj Bhardwaj (starting 26 January)
Madhya Pradesh Ram Naresh Yadav
Maharashtra Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
Manipur Gurbachan Jagat
Meghalaya Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary
Mizoram Vakkom Purushothaman
Nagaland Nikhil Kumar (until 21 March)
Ashwani Kumar (starting 21 March)
Odisha Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare (until 9 March)
S. C. Jamir (starting 21 March)
Punjab Shivraj Vishwanath Patil
Rajasthan Shivraj Patil (until 12 May)
Margaret Alva (starting 12 May)
Sikkim Balmiki Prasad Singh
Tamil Nadu Konijeti Rosaiah
Tripura Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil (until 21 March)
Devanand Konwar (starting 25 March)
Uttar Pradesh Banwari Lal Joshi
Uttarakhand Margaret Alva (until 15 May)
Aziz Qureshi (starting 15 May)
West Bengal M.K. Narayanan

Events

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  • National income - ₹99,440,131 million

January - March

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April - June

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July - September

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October - December

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Cinema

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Bengali

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Main article: Bengali films of 2012

Bollywood

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Main article: Bollywood films of 2012

Malayalam

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Main article: Malayalam films of 2012

Marathi

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Main article: Marathi films of 2012

Ollywood

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Main article: Ollywood films of 2012

Sandwood

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Main article: Kannada films of 2012

Tamil

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Main article: Tamil films of 2012

Tollywood

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Main article: Telugu films of 2012

Sports

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Main article: 2012 in Indian sports

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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October

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November

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December

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  • Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs on 23 December. He played 463 ODIs in all, scoring 18,426 runs, which includes 49 centuries and 96 half centuries.[79]

Deaths

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January – August

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Dara Singh
  • 3 February – Raj Kanwar, 50, Bollywood film director, producer[82] (born 1961)
  • 7 March – Ravi, 86, music director in Hindi and Malayalam films (born 1926)
  • 9 March – Joy Mukherjee, 73, actor and director (born 1939)
  • 15 March – Falak, 2, baby murder victim (born 2010)
  • 28 March – T. Damodaran, 77, screenwriter in Malayalam cinema (born c. 1935)
  • 1 April – N. K. P. Salve, 91, politician, parliamentarian, and a cricket administrator (born 1921)
  • 23 April – Navodaya Appachan, 86, film producer, director, and entrepreneur (born 1924)
  • 24 April – Sheena Bora, 25, daughter of media executive Indrani Mukerjea (born 1987)
  • 14 May – Taruni Sachdev, 14, actress in films and television advertisements[83] (born 1998)
  • 12 July – Dara Singh, 83, professional wrestler, actor, director, and politician[84] (born 1928)
Rajesh Khanna

September – December

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13th prime minister of India
Inder kumar Gujral

See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2012 in India.

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