1957 in India

Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India.

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 – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 1 August), Bhim Sen Sachar (starting 1 August)
• Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
• Bihar – R. R. Diwakar (until 5 July), Zakir Hussain (starting 5 July)
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
• Madhya Pradesh – Pattabhi Sitaramayya (until 13 June), Hari Vinayak Pataskar (starting 13 June)
• Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
• Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 31 July), Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (starting 31 July)
• Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

• National income - 137,104 million
• January 26 - Portuguese Indian troops open fire at TarakPardi in Bombay State for securing right of pass between enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
• April 1 - Second Nehru ministry adopts Decimalisation of Indian rupee and discontinue the concept of anna coin system.
• April 5 – 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.
• August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup held at France.
• September 1 - Indian Air Force inducts its first jet bomber Canberra at Squadron 5, Agra.
• December 4 - Hindustan Shipyard delivers its first passenger cum cargo vessel M V Andaman.

Date not known

• V. S. Wakankar discovers Bhimbetka rock shelter cave paintings.
• Hirakud dam opened

Law

• India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
• Copyright Act

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 Ahmad Madani, Islamic scholar (born 1879).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1957

References