1953 in India

none September 2020 March 20231953 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 Bombay – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh Orissa – 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.21 June 2017 Air India: Air India was at its peak during the JRD Tata times: Jitendra Bhargava, Former ED, Air India http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/air-india-was-at-its-peak-during-the-jrd-tata-times-jitendra-bhargava-former-ed-air-india/articleshow/59252990.cms live https://web.archive.org/web/20170729005531/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/air-india-was-at-its-peak-during-the-jrd-tata-times-jitendra-bhargava-former-ed-air-india/articleshow/59252990.cms 29 July 2017 24 October 2017 Economictimes.indiatimes.com 18 June - C. Rajagopalachari introduced Modified Scheme of Elementary Education in Madras State. The scheme was widely criticised and opposed due to Casteism ingrained in it.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 15 July - Kallakudi demonstration in Tamilnadu.Panneerselvan A. S. 2021-03-23 How the Kallakudi agitation became a turning point in Karunanidhi’s political life https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/how-kallakudi-agitation-became-turning-point-karunanidhi-s-political-life-145744 2025-02-27 The News Minute en 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.2015-09-16 Chappa redux: Working class heroes of west Kochi The Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/chappa-redux-working-class-heroes-of-west-kochi/articleshow/48982526.cms?from=mdr 2023-03-10 0971-8257 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.THE ANDHRA STATE ACT,1953 http://theindianlawyer.in/statutesnbareacts/acts/a46.html 26 August 2013 16 August 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140816123339/http://theindianlawyer.in/statutesnbareacts/acts/a46.html dead 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 Bollywood films of 1953 References 1953 India Category:Years of the 20th century in India Category:1950s in India Category:1953 in Asia