1959 in India
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Events in the year 1959 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 – Sudhi Ranjan Das (until 30 Sep.), Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (starting 1 Oct.)
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
- Assam –
- until 22 August: Saiyid Fazal Ali
- 23 August-14 October: Chandreswar Prasad Sinha
- starting 14 October: Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh
- until 22 August:
- Zakir Hussain
- Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
- Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
- Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
- Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
- Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar
- Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
- Gurumukh Nihal Singh
- Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
- West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
- National income - ₹161,017 million
- March 31 - India grants political asylum to the Dalai Lama after he fled Tibet and crossed into Indian territory following 1959 Tibetan uprising.[1]
- April 10 - An English Electric Canberra jet bomber of Indian Air Force that crossed into Pakistani Airspace was shot down near Rawalpindi by Pakistan Air Force's Sabre jets.[2][3]
- May 1 - President of India Rajendra Prasad gave assent for Reserve Bank of India (Amendment) Act 1959 which created provision for introduction of External Rupee (Gulf Rupee and Hajj Rupee) for using as tender in Trucial States, Oman, Qatar etc. The move is meant to curb the misuse of Indian rupee by gold smugglers.[4]
- July 31 - The Vimochana Samaram.
Dates unknown
- Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.[5]
Law
Births
- 3 January – Arunachal East.
- 6 January – Kapil Dev, cricketer.
- 15 May - Anandaraj, actor.
- 25 June – Suresh Krissna, film director.
- 29 July – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
- 29 August – Suman, actor.
- 29 August – Nagarjuna, actor and film producer.
- 19 December – H. D. Kumaraswamy, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.
Deaths
- 1 November – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, actor and Carnatic singer (born 1909).
- 4 December – Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. (born 1888)
See also
- List of Bollywood films of 1959
References
- ^ "Dalai Lama Gets Asylum In India; Harried In Flight". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Untold story of an IAF Canberra & its crew, 60 years before Wing Commander Abhinandan's MiG". ThePrint. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ISSN 0030-980X.
- ^ Kamalakaran, Ajay. "Gulf rupee: When the Reserve Bank of India played central banker in West Asia". Scroll.in. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Bajaj Auto Ltd". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 April 2022.