1952 in India

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "1952 in India" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in India → 1953 1954 1955
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1952 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

• Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
• Bihar – Madhav Shrihari Aney (until 15 June), R. R. Diwakar (starting 15 June)
• Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
• Fazal Ali
  (starting 7 June)
• Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
• Maharaj Man Singh II
• Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
  (starting 1 June)
• West Bengal – Kailash Nath Katju (until 1 November), Harendra Coomar Mookerjee (starting 1 November)

Events

• National income - ₹106,634 million

January - June

• 21 February - 1951–52 Indian general election concludes.
• 3 April -
  1952 Indian Rajya Sabha elections
  .
• 15 April - The Indian National Congress headed by Jawaharlal Nehru sweeps into power.
• 17 April – Membership of the 1st Lok Sabha starts.
• 13 May – Jawaharlal Nehru forms his first government.
• 13 May – First Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha session commenced.
• 15 May –
  G.V. Mavlankar handles the charge as Speaker of the Lok Sabha
  .
• 30 May – M. A. Ayyangar handles the charge as Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.

June - December

• 26 July - Commencement of 1952 Mulkhi Agitation at Warangal.^[1]
• 16 October - The first ever
  Feroz Shah Kotla Ground against Pakistan national cricket team.^[2]
• December - Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to Travancore–Cochin results in commencement of Nehru Trophy Boat Race.^[3]
• The commencement of Indo-Norwegian Project.^[4]

Births

• 01 January -
  Shaji N.Karun
  ,Filmmaker,Producer
• 18 January – Veerappan, bandit (died 2004).
• 21 January – Pradeep Rawat, actor.
• 3 February – Deepti Naval, actress.
• 14 February – Sushma Swaraj, politician (died 2019)
• 19 March – Mohan Babu, actor, producer and politician.
• 31 March – Letika Saran, former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, India.
• 1 April – Venki Ramakrishnan, biologist
• 25 April – Brij Narayan, sarod player
• 30 May – Ambareesh, actor and politician. (died 2018)
• 20 June –
  memoirist
  .
• 23 June – Raj Babbar, actor.
• 27 June – Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty, banker (died 2021)
• 29 July – Harshad Mehta, stockbroker (died 2001)
• 25 August – Vijayakanth, actor and politician (died 2023)
• 4 September – Rishi Kapoor, actor. (died 2020)
• 15 September – K. Vijay Kumar, retired IPS officer.
• 26 November – Munawwar Rana, poet (died 2024)
• 13 December – Lakshmi, actress.
• 18 December – Noor Alam Khalil Amini, Sunni Muslim scholar (died 2021)
• 28 December – Hemant Shesh Hindi poet, editor, art critic

Full date unknown

• feminist
  , and publisher.
• Daisy Irani, actress.
• Deepak Kumar, historian and philosopher of science.

Deaths

• 7 March – Paramahansa Yogananda, yogi and guru (born 1893).
• Rashid Jahan, author, short story writer and playwright (born 1905).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1952

References