1953 in India
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Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India
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India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Incumbents
- President of IndiaPresident of IndiaThe President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
– Rajendra PrasadRajendra PrasadDr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India... - Prime Minister of IndiaPrime Minister of IndiaThe Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
– Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
Events
- 15 June - Indian Airlines created.
- Air IndiaAir IndiaAir India is the flag carrier airline of India. It is part of the government of India owned Air India Limited . The airline operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Its corporate office is located at the Air India Building at Nariman...
nationalised. - Government of IndiaGovernment of IndiaThe Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
sets up first backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.
Births
- 7 January - K. Bhagyaraj, director, actor, script-writer and producer
- April 1 — Hari ChandHari ChandHari Chand is one of the few great distance runners that India has produced. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he came 8th in the 10,000 metre run with a time of 28:48.72, this however was a national record for an Indian athlete and was only beaten 32 years later by Surendra Singh. In the...
, long-distance runner - May 8, Devi Prasad ShettyDevi Prasad ShettyDr Devi Prasad Shetty is an Indian philanthropist and a cardiac surgeon. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of Medical Council of India for 1 year between May 2010 and May 2011, after the MCI was reconstituted.-Life and career:...
, top India's leading heart surgeon and social entrepreneur - 22 July - Mazhar KhanMazhar Khan (actor)Mazhar Khan was an Indian film and television actor and producer and director.-Career:Mazhar made his debut in the 1979 film Baton Baton Mein. He came into recognition with the 1980 film Shaan which was directed by Ramesh Sippy...
, actor, producer and director (d.19981998 in IndiaEvents in the year 1998 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – K. R. Narayanan* Prime Minister of India – Inder Kumar Gujral until 19 March, Atal Bihari Vajpayee-January to March:...
) - 30 August - Avinash Balkrishna PatwardhanAvinash Balkrishna PatwardhanAvinash Balkrishna Patwardhan born 30 August 1953 in Nagpur, Maharshatra is a civil engineer and a law graduate who has profound knowledge and interest in Indian classical music...
, engineer, author and Indian classical musicIndian classical musicThe origins of Indian classical music can be found in the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition. Indian classical music has also been significantly influenced by, or syncretised with, Indian folk music and Persian music. The Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, describes music...
researcher - 7 September - MammoottyMammoottyMammootty is an Indian film actor and producer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in a few Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has acted in more than 360 films, and is only next to Prem Nazir in the number of lead roles...
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Deaths
- 22 November - Syed Sulaiman NadviSyed Sulaiman NadviAllama Sayyed Sulaiman Nadvi was an eminent Indian and Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam...
, historianHistorianA historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, biographer, littérateur and scholar of IslamIslamIslam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
(b.18841884 in India-Births:* March — Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher .* 7 November — Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian ....
). - 10 December - Abdullah Yusuf AliAbdullah Yusuf AliHafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, FRSL was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world....
, Islamic scholarUlemaUlama , also spelt ulema, refers to the educated class of Muslim legal scholars engaged in the several fields of Islamic studies. They are best known as the arbiters of shari‘a law...
who translated the Qur'anQur'anThe Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...
into EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(b.18721872 in India-Births:*14 April - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English .*15 August - Sri Aurobindo, nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru ....
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See also
- Bollywood films of 1953Bollywood films of 1953An overview of the films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1953.Do Bigha Zameen directed and produced by Bengali director Bimal Roy and starring Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar and Jagdeep won the Filmfare Best Movie Award...