1953 in India

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

Incumbents[edit | edit source]

Governors[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
Bihar – R. R. Diwakar
Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
Odisha – Fazal Ali
Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 11 March), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 11 March)
Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Events[edit | edit source]

National income - ₹116,067 million
15 June – Indian Airlines created.
Air India nationalised.^[1]
18 June - C. Rajagopalachari introduced Modified Scheme of Elementary Education in Madras State. The scheme was widely criticised and opposed due to Casteism ingrained in it.^[2]
15 July - Kallakudi demonstration in Tamilnadu.^[3]
8 August - Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and his government dismissed by Sadr-e-Riyasat Karan Singh.
15 September - Police firing against labourers at Mattancherry for protesting against the chappa system, an early work-guarantee scheme.^[4]
1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.^[5]

Law[edit | edit source]

Government of India sets up first Backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.

Births[edit | edit source]

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.
24 July – Srividya, actress (died 2006).
30 August – Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan, engineer, author and Indian classical music researcher,
8 December – Manobala, director, actor, producer and comedian.

Deaths[edit | edit source]

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).

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Air India: Air India was at its peak during the JRD Tata times: Jitendra Bhargava, Former ED, Air India". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 21 June 2017. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
↑ "Those Were The Days: How Rajaji's 'kula kalvi thittam' became a controversial education reform". dtNext.in. 15 December 2019. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
↑ Panneerselvan, A. S. (23 March 2021). "How the Kallakudi agitation became a turning point in Karunanidhi's political life". The News Minute. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
↑ "Chappa redux: Working class heroes of west Kochi". The Times of India. 16 September 2015. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
↑ "THE ANDHRA STATE ACT,1953". Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

[1] "Air India: Air India was at its peak during the JRD Tata times: Jitendra Bhargava, Former ED, Air India". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 21 June 2017. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.

[2] "Those Were The Days: How Rajaji's 'kula kalvi thittam' became a controversial education reform". dtNext.in. 15 December 2019. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2025.

[3] Panneerselvan, A. S. (23 March 2021). "How the Kallakudi agitation became a turning point in Karunanidhi's political life". The News Minute. Retrieved 27 February 2025.

[4] "Chappa redux: Working class heroes of west Kochi". The Times of India. 16 September 2015. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 March 2023.

[5] "THE ANDHRA STATE ACT,1953". Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

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1953 in India

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Incumbents[edit | edit source]

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Law[edit | edit source]

Births[edit | edit source]

Deaths[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]