1953 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Governors

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).

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Incumbents

Governors

Events

Births

Deaths

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