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= Public ___domain in India in 2025 =
These artists' artworks will enter Public Domain in 2025. Follow the links to read, edit or create Wikipedia articles about them, and view their works on Wikimedia or some external projects. You can also search for more media in several repositories.
In India, copyright protection lasts for 60 years after the artist's death, and the works enter Public Domain on 1. January the next year. In 2025, works from artists who died in 1964 will be free to copy, share, and modify without permission.
The rule applies to artwork whose country of origin is India.
If your country has a copyright protection that is shorter than 60 years, these works have entered Public Domain in 1964 for countries with the life + 60 years rule 1974 for countries with the life + 50 years rule
This list is generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by a bot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!
Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964 –
politician • barrister • trade unionist • autobiographer • freedom fighter • writer
J.B.S. Haldane
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964) –
biologist • university teacher • physiologist • biochemist • geneticist • philosopher
Works
Guru Dutt
Indian film director, producer, choreographer and actor (1925–1964) –
screenwriter • choreographer • film director • film producer • film editor • film actor
Works
1 more works on Wikidata
Mehboob Khan
film director (1906–1964) –
film director • film producer • film actor
Works
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15 more works on Wikidata
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Indian Poet (1886-1964) –
translator • linguist • writer • poet • politician
Mushtaq Hussain Khan
Indian classical vocalist –
singer
Shanta Apte
singer and actress –
film actor
Verrier Elwin
British anthropologist (1902-1964) –
ethnologist • anthropologist • autobiographer
Samarendra Nath Roy
Indian-born American mathematician –
mathematician • university teacher • statistician
Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar
Indian theatre director (1873-1964) –
Works
1 more works on Wikidata
T. P. Rajalakshmi
First film heroine of south India (1911–1964) –
film director • film actor
Birinchi Kumar Barua
Assamese scholar and writer –
literary scholar • Indologist • poet • university teacher
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Indian writer (1917-1964) –
writer • poet • journalist • literary critic
Pasupuleti Kannamba
Indian actress (1912-1964) –
actor • singer
Naresh Chandra Sengupta
Indian lawyer and writer –
Works
7 more works on Wikidata
Parvati Prasad Baruva
Indian poet, lyricist and dramatist who wrote in Assamese language –
lyricist • film director • writer • poet • playwright
Jatindranath Dowara
Indian poet –
writer • poet
Works
Asit Kumar Haldar
Indian painter of Bengal school (1890-1964) –
Works
13 more works on Wikidata
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
Indian musician (1893-1964) –
musician • violinist
Bhatt Mathuranath Shastri
Sanskrit poet of 20th century –
Louisa Durrell
mother of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell –
novelist
Nitish Chandra Laharry
Indian lawyer, social worker and film producer –
lawyer • film director • film producer • social worker • president of a non-profit organisation • film distributor
Premankur Atorthy
Indian actor (1890–1964) –
Works
13 more works on Wikidata
Rama Varma Parikshith Thampuran
Ruler of Cochin –
monarch • writer
Shashibhusan Dasgupta
Scholar in philosophy, languages and literature, particularly Bengali literature, literary critic, author, theologian –
Works
14 more works on Wikidata
Vishwanathbuwa Jadhav
Hindustani classical singer –
composer
Works
Vaikunthbhai Mehta
Indian politician (1891–1964) –
politician • economist
Attoor Krishna Pisharody
Sanskrit scholar, teacher and writer –
teacher • author • musicologist
Surjya Kumar Bhuyan
Assamese writer, historian and educator –
poet • politician
Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao
film score composer –
composer
Works
Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar
Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India –
Vajjhala China Sitarama Sastri
–
Jogendranath Gupta
Bengali writer –
Works
34 more works on Wikidata
Biren Nag
Indian film director –
art director • film director
Phakirappa Gurubasappa Halakatti
Indian writer –
Radhanath Phukan
Sanskrit scholar, philosopher and writer from Assam. –
writer • philosopher
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Sonthi Venkata Ramamurthy
Indian Mathematician, ICS officer – and
scientist
M. H. Douglas
Stunt director, Action Director, Action Co-ordinator –
actor • stunt performer
Nawal Kishore Dhawal
Indian writer –
writer
Jaladhar Chattopadhyay
–
Works
19 more works on Wikidata
Naseeruddin Hashmi
–
historian • archivist • biographer • researcher • travel writer • cataloger
Kali Krishna Bhattacharya
–
Bhudeb Sen
–
Muhammad Ahmad Osmani
Indian university teacher –
poet • university teacher
Swarnakamal Bhattacharya
–
Sukharanjan Roy
–
Anandrao Krishnaji Tekade
Poet and lyricist. patriotic and Radhakrishna devotion are the subject of his poetic writings –
Janina Stroka
Polish mystic and artist –
poet • painter • mystic • diarist
Jahangir Edalji Sanjana
Indian writer (1880-1964) –
translator • literary critic • literary scholar
Narendra Nath Law
Indian historian –
Narendranath Basu
–
Shad Arifi
Indian poet –
poet
Benoytosh Bhattacharyya
Indian indologist (1897–1964) –
writer • Indologist
Sheikh Fattelal
Indian film director, cinematographer and film producer (1897–1964) –
cinematographer • film director • production designer • film producer
Apurba Krishna Bhattacharya
–
writer
Abaninath Mitra
–
writer
Biswanath Pasayat
Indian lawyer (1912-1964) –
writer
Jatindra Bimal Chaudhuri
Indian writer –
writer
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