1960 in India

← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in India → 1961 1962 1963
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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1960 in the Republic of India.(post Independence period)

Incumbents

• President of India – Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh –
• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• 1 May – Gujarat State and Maharashtra State are formed from the State of Bombay as laid down by the States Reorganisation Act.
• 1 May – In India, 1 May is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (the same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day) or 'Gujarat Diwas'.
• 1 May – Yashwantrao Chavan took oath as the 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 20 June – Maharashtra State Electricity Board formed.
• The ninth amendments of the Constitution of India

Full date unknown

• Air India enters United States with flights to New York.
• Bajaj Auto goes public.
• Goa, Diu and Daman were freed from Portuguese rule and became parts of the Indian federation.

Births

• 2 January – Raman Lamba, cricketer
• 5 February – Maganti Venkateswara Rao, politician and member of parliament from Eluru.
• 1 May – Y. V. Subba Reddy, politician from YSR Congress Party and former member of parliament from Ongole.
• 25 June – Suresh Gopi, actor.
• 11 July – Kumar Gaurav, actor.
• 13 September – Karthik Muthuraman, actor.

Deaths

• 30 January – J. C. Kumarappa, economist (born 1892).
• 2 February – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (born 1884).
• 20 April – Pannalal Ghosh, flute (bānsurī) player and composer (born 1911).
• 27 April – Rajshekhar Basu, writer, chemist and lexicographer (born 1880).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1960