1957 in India

Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India.

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Centuries:	18th
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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

• President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors

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

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).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1957

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