1954 in India

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Events in the year 1954 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 –
  • until 3 Jan. – M. Patanjali Sastri
  • 4 Jan.-22 Dec. – Mehr Chand Mahajan
  • starting 23 Dec. – Bijan Kumar Mukherjea

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
• Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
• Bihar – Madhav Shrihari Aney
• Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
• Odisha – Fazal Ali (until 9 February), P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja (starting 9 February)
• Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
• Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
• Uttar Pradesh – Hormasji Peroshaw Mody
• West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

Events

• National income - ₹109,771 million
• 26 January – First Bharat Ratna in India :
  • First recipient: C Rajagopalachari
  • Second recipient: Dr.S Radhakrishnan
  • Third recipient: C V Raman
• 22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.
• 4 April – Congress Working Committee set up a subcommittee under Jawaharlal Nehru's chairmanship to examine the working of the Constitution of India.^[1]
• 11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.^[2]
• Seven killed in police firing in Travancore following agitation by Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress.^[3]
• 6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.
• 7 December - National Defence Academy inaugurated at Pune.
• Sahitya Akademi was established in 1954

Law

• 5 July – The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.

Births

• 11 January – Kailash Satyarthi, Social Reformer, Co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2014
• 25 March – Pinky Lilani, author and businesswoman
• 12 May – Edappadi K. Palaniswami, chief minister of Tamil Nadu 2018.
• 4 July – Manjula Vijayakumar, actress (died 2013).
• 10 July – Malyadri Sriram, politician and member of parliament from Bapatla.
• 14 July
  • Tanikella Bharani, playwright, script writer and actor.
  • R. Sarathkumar, actor and politician.
• 23 July – Nadeem al-Wajidi, Islamic scholar and writer (died 2024).
• 1 August – Baba Gurinder Singh, Fifth and Present Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas.
• 11 August – Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (died 2021).
• 14 September – Shrikant Jichkar, politician (died 2004).
• 15 September – P. Vasu, film director and actor.
• 3 October – Sathyaraj, actor, producer and director.
• 3 November – Laxmikant Berde, comic actor (died 2004).
• 7 November – Kamal Haasan, actor and film director.
• 9 November – Shankar Nag, actor and director (died 1990).

Deaths

• 22 October – Jibanananda Das, poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899)
• 5 December – Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, civil servant, diplomat and Governor of Bombay (b. 1891)

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1954

References

1. Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 101. ISBN 0195648889.
2. P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987,
3. "Why did Kerala surrender Kanyakumari to Tamil Nadu without a fight?". www.onmanorama.com. Retrieved 24 July 2024.