1954 in India

Template:Year in region 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

Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
Bihar – Madhav Shrihari Aney
Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
Odisha – Fazal Ali (until February 9), P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja (starting February 9)
Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
Uttar Pradesh – Hormasji Peroshaw Mody
West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Events

22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.
5 July – The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.^[1]
6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.
26 January - First Bharat Ratna in India.

First recipient:C Rajagopalachari Second recipient: Dr.S Radhakrishnan Third recipient:C V Raman

Births

11 January - Kailash Satyarthi, Social Reformer, Co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2014.
7 March – Anupam Kher, actor.
19 March – Indu Shahani, educationist and Sheriff of Mumbai.
12 May - Eddapadi K. Palanisamy, chief minister of Tamil Nadu 2018.
10 July - Malyadri Sriram, politician and member of parliament from Bapatla.
11 August – Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (died 2021).
14 September – Shrikant Jichkar, politician (died 2004).
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

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)

References

↑ P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987,

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