1953 in India

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Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – M. Patanjali Sastri

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
• Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
• Bihar – R. R. Diwakar
• Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
• Odisha – Fazal Ali
• Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 11 March), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (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. ^[1]
• 15 July - Kallakudi demonstration in Tamilnadu. ^[2]
• 8 August - Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and his government dismissed by Sadr-e-Riyasat Karan Singh.
• 15 September - Police firing against labourers at Mattancherry for protesting against the chappa system, an early work-guarantee scheme. ^[3]
• 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency. ^[4]

Law

• Government of India sets up first Backward classes 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, 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 researcher,
• 8 December – Manobala, director, actor, producer and comedian.

Deaths

• 22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (born 1884).
• 10 December – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English (born 1872).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1953

References

1. "Air India: Air India was at its peak during the JRD Tata times: Jitendra Bhargava, Former ED, Air India". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 21 June 2017. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
2. Panneerselvan, A. S. (23 March 2021). "How the Kallakudi agitation became a turning point in Karunanidhi's political life". The News Minute. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
3. "Chappa redux: Working class heroes of west Kochi". The Times of India. 16 September 2015. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 10 March 2023.
4. "THE ANDHRA STATE ACT,1953". Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.