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
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Chappa redux: Working class heroes of west Kochi". The Times of India. 16 September 2015. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
- ^ "THE ANDHRA STATE ACT,1953". Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.