1957 in India
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Events in the year 1957 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
- India passes a bill making KashmirKashmirKashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
under its control as part of the Union. - 5 April - First elected government of KeralaKeralaor Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
. Communist Party of IndiaCommunist Party of IndiaThe Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
won the elections and E. M. S. NamboodiripadE. M. S. NamboodiripadElamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, , popularly known as EMS, was an Indian Communist leader and the first Chief Minister of Kerala. As the first non-Congress chief minister in independent India, he became the leader of the first democratically elected communist government in the world...
became the first chief minister of united Kerala. - Parliament passes the Copyright Act of 1957
Births
- 22 August - Deepti NavalDeepti NavalDeepti Naval is an acclaimed Indian actress. She has acted in over 75 Hindi films, and most often worked in arthouse and independent films, known as parallel cinema in India.-Early life:Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India...
, actress. - Thomas ZachariaThomas ZachariaThomas Zacharia is an Indian-American computer scientist. He received his bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka in 1980 and a master’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Mississippi in 1984...
, computational scientist. - Sardar Rajpal Singh Khakh, landlord.
Deaths
- 5 April - Alagappa ChettiarAlagappa ChettiarPadmabushan Dr. K.V. AL. RM. Alagappa Chettiar, in Tamil: வள்ளல் டாக்டர் திரு க.வி.அழ.அழகப்பா செட்டியார் , was an Indian businessman and philanthropist.-Early life:...
, businessman and philanthropist (b.19091909 in India-Births:*3 January - M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, actor and Carnatic singer .*10 February - Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty, physicist and meteorologist .*6 April - Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist ....
). - 30 August - N. S. KrishnanN. S. KrishnanNagerkoyil Sudalaimuthu Krishnan , popularly known as Kalaivanar and also as 'NSK' was a leading Tamil film comedian, drama artist, playback singer and writer in the early stages of the Tamil film industry - in the 1940s and 1950s....
, comedian, actor, playback singer and writer (b.19081908 in India-January to June:*17 January - L. V. Prasad, actor, producer and director .*26 February - Leela Majumdar, writer .*2 March - Mahadeva Subramania Mani, entomologist .*5 April - Jagjivan Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer ....
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See also
- Bollywood films of 1957Bollywood films of 1957A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1957:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1957:-1957:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...