| | 1 | ''''1985: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * The 52nd Amendment bill disqualifies Members of Parliament who defect from one Party to another. |
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| | 5 | * The Assam accord, after which the AASU-Asom Gana Parishad leadership takes over the state government. |
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| | 7 | * The Punjab accord is signed by Rajiv Gandhi and Harchand Singh Longowal, the most moderate of the Sikh leaders. Longowal is assassinated shortly afterwards. |
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| | 9 | * Doordarshan becomes a fully commercial station selling prime time slots to private sponsors and manufacturers of TV soaps. Its first successful series, Kumar Vasudev’s Humlog (1984-5), is modelled on the Mexican concept of the ‘developmental’ soap opera and is sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and Nestlé. |
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| | 11 | * Several privately made serials follow as TV ownership jumps from 2. 7 million in 1984 to 12. 5 million in 1986. |
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| | 14 | * Indian Cinema season at Pesaro Film Festival, Italy. |