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]
- 18 June - C. Rajagopalachari introduced Modified Scheme of Elementary Education in Madras State. The scheme was widely criticised and opposed due to Casteism ingrained in it.[2]
- 15 July - Kallakudi demonstration in Tamilnadu.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.[5]
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).