Events in the year 1953 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 – M. Patanjali Sastri
Governors Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram Bihar – R. R. Diwakar Bombay – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh Jammu and Kashmir – Karan Singh Orissa – 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 National income - 116,067 million 15 June – Indian Airlines created. Air India nationalised. 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. 15 July - Kallakudi demonstration in Tamilnadu. 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. 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.
Law Government of India sets up first Backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.
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. 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 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).
See also Bollywood films of 1953
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