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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
5 April – First elected government of Kerala. Communist Party of India won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
Parliament passes the Copyright Act of 1957

Sport

Balbir Singh Sr. became the first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

1 February – Jackie Shroff, actor.
10 March – Thanu Padmanabhan, theoretical physicist and cosmologist (d. 2021)
20 October – Dennis Joseph, scriptwriter and director (d. 2021)
Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist.

Deaths

5 April – Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist (born 1909).
30 August – N. S. Krishnan, comedian, actor, playback singer and writer (born 1908).
5 December – Hussain Ahmed Madani, Islamic scholar (born 1879).

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