1954 in India

none March 2022 1954 Events in the year 1954 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 – until 3 Jan. – M. Patanjali Sastri 4 Jan.-22 Dec. – Mehr Chand Mahajan starting 23 Dec. – Bijan Kumar Mukherjea Governors Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram Bihar – Madhav Shrihari Aney Bombay – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh Orissa – Fazal Ali (until 9 February), P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja (starting 9 February) Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II Uttar Pradesh – Hormasji Peroshaw Mody West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee Events National income - 109,771 million 26 January – First Bharat Ratna in India : First recipient: C. Rajagopalachari Second recipient: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Third recipient: C. V. Raman 15 February - Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election results in majority for Indian National Congress. Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress makes significant gains in Kanyakumari region. 22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi. 4 April – Congress Working Committee set up a subcommittee under Jawaharlal Nehru's chairmanship to examine the working of the Constitution of India.Austin Granville https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience Oxford University Press 1999 0195648889 101 en 29 April - India and China signs Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Panchsheel). 18 May - K. Kamaraj drops the controversial Modified Scheme of Elementary Education introduced by Rajaji in Madras State.2019-12-15 Those Were The Days: How Rajaji’s ‘kula kalvi thittam’ became a controversial education reform https://www.dtnext.in/amp/city/2019/12/15/those-were-the-days-how-rajajis-kula-kalvi-thittam-became-a-controversial-education-reform https://web.archive.org/web/20200927152855/https://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2019/12/15013004/1203824/Those-Were-The-Days-How-Rajajis-kula-kalvi-thittam-.vpf 2020-09-27 2025-10-23 dtNext.in live en-US 8 July - Bhakra-Nangal Dam inaugurated. 11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987, Seven killed in police firing in Travancore following agitation by Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress.Why did Kerala surrender Kanyakumari to Tamil Nadu without a fight? https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2020/10/31/why-did-kerala-surrender-kanyakumari-to-tamil-nadu.html 2024-07-24 www.onmanorama.com 6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed. 7 December - National Defence Academy inaugurated at Pune. Sahitya Akademi was established in 1954 Law 5 July – The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established. Births 11 January – Kailash Satyarthi, Social Reformer, Co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2014 25 March – Pinky Lilani, author and businesswoman 12 May – Edappadi K. Palaniswami, chief minister of Tamil Nadu 2018. 4 July Manjula Vijayakumar, actress (died 2013). 10 July – Malyadri Sriram, politician and member of parliament from Bapatla. 14 July Tanikella Bharani, playwright, script writer and actor. R. Sarathkumar, actor and politician. 23 July – Nadeem al-Wajidi, Islamic scholar and writer (died 2024). 1 August Baba Gurinder Singh, Fifth and Present Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas. 11 August – Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (died 2021). 14 September – Shrikant Jichkar, politician (died 2004). 15 September P. Vasu, film director and actor. 3 October Sathyaraj, actor, producer and director. 3 November – Laxmikant Berde, comic actor (died 2004). 7 November – Kamal Haasan, actor and film director. 9 November – Shankar Nag, actor and director (died 1990). Deaths 26 September - Chandrashekhara Bharati III, 34th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Sringeri (born 1892). 22 October – Jibanananda Das, poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899) 5 December – Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, civil servant, diplomat and Governor of Bombay (b. 1891) See also List of Bollywood films of 1954 References 1954 India Category:Years of the 20th century in India Category:1950s in India Category:1954 in Asia