Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

* President of India – Rajendra Prasad *

Prime Minister of India The prime minister of India (IAST: ) is the head of government of the Republic of India. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and their chosen Council of Ministers, despite the president of India being the nominal head of the ...

– Jawaharlal Nehru * Vice President of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan *

Chief Justice of India The chief justice of India (IAST: ) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India as well as the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Judiciary. The Constitution of India grants power to the president of India to appoint, in consultation w ...

–

M. Patanjali Sastri Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri (4 January 1889 – 16 March 1963) was the second Chief Justice of India, serving in the post from 7 November 1951 to 3 January 1954. Early life He was the son of Pandit Krishna Sastri, senior Sanskrit ''pandit'' ...

Governors

* Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi * Assam –

Jairamdas Daulatram Jairamdas Daulatram (1891–1979) was an Indian political leader from Sindh, who was active in the Indian independence movement and later served in the Government of India. He was appointed as the Governor for the states of Bihar and later Assam ...

* Bihar – R. R. Diwakar *

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

– Raja Sir Maharaj Singh * Odisha –

Fazal Ali Sir Saiyid Fazl Ali OBE (19 September 1886 – 22 August 1959) was an Indian judge, the governor of two Indian states (Assam and Odisha), and the head of the States Reorganisation Commission which determined the boundaries of several Indian s ...

* Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 11 March),

Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (18 April 1901 – 1994) was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and administrator. Early life Singh was born in the Bhumihar Zamindar family of Parsagarh State in Saran district of Bihar. He obtained an ...

(starting 11 March) * Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II * Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi * West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Events

* National income - 116,067 million * 15 June – Indian Airlines created. * Air India

nationalised Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

. * 8 August -

Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir was the title given to the head of government of Jammu and Kashmir. As per the Constitution of India, the Lieutenant Governor is the state's ''de jure'' head, but ''de facto'' executive authority rests wit ...

Sheikh Abdullah and his government dismissed by Sadr-e-Riyasat Karan Singh. * 15 September - Police firing against labourers at

Mattancherry Mattancherry (), is a locality in the city of Kochi, India. It is about 9 km south-west from the city center. It is said that the name Mattancherry comes from "Ancherry Mattom", a ''Namboodiri illam'' which the foreign traders then pronounc ...

for protesting against the chappa system, an early work-guarantee scheme. * 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

speaking regions out of erstwhile

Madras Presidency The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...

Law

* Government of India sets up first

Backward classes The Other Backward Class is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes which are educationally or socially backward. It is one of several official classifications of the population of India, along with General castes, S ...

commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.

Births

*7 January – K. Bhagyaraj, director, actor, script-writer and producer * 1 April – Hari Chand, long-distance runner * 8 May, Devi Prasad Shetty, top India's leading heart surgeon and social entrepreneur * 15 May –

Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli Velagapalli Varaprasada Rao is an Indian politician and was a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha from Tirupati, Tirupati (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2014 Indian general election ...

, politician and former member of parliament from Tirupati. * 27 May – Ranjit Sinha, police officer (died 2021) * 15 June – Kambhampati Hari Babu, politician and member of parliament from Visakhapatnam. * 11 July – Suresh Prabhu, Politician, Railway Minister since 2014. *24 July Srividya, actress (died 2006). *30 August – Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan, engineer, author and

Indian classical music Indian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as '' Hindustani'' and the South Indian expression known as '' Carnatic''. These traditions were not ...

researcher, *8 December –

Manobala Manobala (born 8 December 1953) is an Indian film director, producer, actor and comedian who predominantly plays supporting roles in Tamil-language films. He started his career in Tamil cinema in the early 1970s and with Kamal Haasan's referen ...

, director, actor, producer and comedian.

Deaths

*22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer,

littérateur An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for the normative problems of society. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or a ...

and scholar of

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

(born 1884). *10 December – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English (born 1872).

References

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