1953 in India

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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 –
• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Maharashtra –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• 15 June – Indian Airlines created.
• Air India nationalised.
• Government of India sets up first backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.
• 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.

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
• 30 August – Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan, engineer, author and Indian classical music researcher,

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