1953 in India

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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

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
• Fazal Ali
• Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 11 March), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 11 March)
• Maharaj Man Singh II
• Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
• West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Events

• National income - ₹116,067 million
• 15 June – Indian Airlines created.
• nationalised.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.^[3]

Law

• Backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar
  .

• 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 –
  Tirupati
  .
• 27 May – Ranjit Sinha, police officer (died 2021)
• 15 June –
  Visakhapatnam
  .
• 11 July –
  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 –
  littérateur and scholar of Islam
  (born 1884).
• 10 December –
  Qur'an
  into English (born 1872).