1957 in India

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Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 1 August), Bhim Sen Sachar (starting 1 August)
• Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
• Bihar – R. R. Diwakar (until 5 July), Zakir Hussain (starting 5 July)
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
• Madhya Pradesh – Pattabhi Sitaramayya (until 13 June), Hari Vinayak Pataskar (starting 13 June)
• Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
• Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 31 July), Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (starting 31 July)
• Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

• National income - ₹137,104 million
• January 26 - Portuguese Indian troops open fire at TarakPardi in Bombay State for securing right of pass between enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. ^[1]
• April 1 - Second Nehru ministry adopts Decimalisation of Indian rupee and discontinue the concept of anna coin system. ^[2]
• April 5 – First elected government of Kerala. Communist Party of India won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala. ^[3]
• August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup held at France. ^{[4] [5]}
• September 1 - Indian Air Force inducts its first jet bomber Canberra at Squadron 5, Agra. ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• December 4 - Hindustan Shipyard delivers its first passenger cum cargo vessel M V Andaman. ^[9]

Date not known

• V. S. Wakankar discovers Bhimbetka rock shelter cave paintings.
• ^[10] Hirakud dam opened

Law

• India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
• Copyright Act

Sport

• Balbir Singh Sr. became the first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

• 1 February – Jackie Shroff, actor.
• 10 March – Thanu Padmanabhan, theoretical physicist and cosmologist (d. 2021)
• 20 October – Dennis Joseph, scriptwriter and director (d. 2021)
• Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist.

Deaths

• 5 April – Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist (born 1909).
• 30 August – N. S. Krishnan, comedian, actor, playback singer and writer (born 1908).
• 5 December – Hussain Ahmad Madani, Islamic scholar (born 1879).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1957

References

1. "1957: Second Five Year Plan was incorporated". India Today. 2 July 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
2. Doctor, Vikram. "The forgotten anniversary of decimalisation". The Economic Times. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
3. Kailash, K. K. (15 December 2021). "From the archives: E.M.S. Namboodiripad, a very contemporary Marxist". India Today. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
4. "IPA | History". ipa.co.in. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
5. "Jaipur 'maharaja' Sawai Padmanabh Singh to represent India in Polo World Cup". The PinkCity Post. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
6. "60 years since IAF's Canberra jets were first deployed; the history of India's war horse". The Indian Express. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
7. "Indian Air Force marks 60 years of its Canberra bombers". Financialexpress. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
8. Kumar, Chethan (31 August 2017). "indian air force: IAF's first generation jet bomber Canberra turns 60 tomorrow | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
9. "Hindustan Shipyard Limited - Saga by jonnala nagireddy - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
10. Venugopal, Vasudha. "RSS to honour man who discovered Bhimbetka caves". The Economic Times. Retrieved 14 April 2022.