1954 in India

Events in the year 1954 in the Republic of India.

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Decades:
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  • 1970s
See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

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
  • 22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.
  • 11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.[1]
  • 6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.
  • 26 January – First Bharat Ratna in India :
    • First recipient: C Rajagopalachari
    • Second recipient: Dr.S Radhakrishnan
    • Third recipient: C V Raman
  • 4 April – Congress Working Committee set up a subcommittee under Jawaharlal Nehru's chairmanship to examine the working of the Constitution of India.[2]
  • 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.
  • 14 July – R. Sarathkumar, actor and politician.
  • 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. P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987,
  2. Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 101. ISBN 0195648889.
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