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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
- Assam –
- Bihar –
- Maharashtra –
- Odisha –
- Punjab –
- Rajasthan –
- Tamil Nadu –
- Telangana –
- Uttar Pradesh –
- West Bengal –
Events
- 15 June – Indian Airlines created.
- Air India nationalised.
- Government of India sets up first backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.
- 1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.
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.
- 30 May - Sweetie Singh was born
- 15 June - Kambhampati Hari Babu, politician and member of parliament from Visakhapatnam.
- 11 July - Suresh Prabhu, Politician, Railway Minister since 2014
- 30 August – Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan, engineer, author and Indian classical music researcher,
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).
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See also
- Bollywood films of 1953
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