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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===
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] – [[Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi]]
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] – [[Jairamdas Daulatram]]
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] – [[R. R. Diwakar]]
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] – [[Raja Maharaj Singh|Raja Sir Maharaj Singh]]
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] – [[Fazal Ali]]
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] – [[Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi]] (until 11 March), [[Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh]] (starting 11 March)
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] – [[Man Singh|Maharaj Man Singh II]]
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] – [[Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi]]
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] – [[Harendra Coomar Mookerjee]]

==Events==
* National income - {{INR}}116,067 million
* 15 June – [[Indian Airlines]] created.
* [[Air India]] [[nationalisation|nationalised]].<ref>{{cite web |date=21 June 2017 |title=Air India: Air India was at its peak during the JRD Tata times: Jitendra Bhargava, Former ED, Air India |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/air-india-was-at-its-peak-during-the-jrd-tata-times-jitendra-bhargava-former-ed-air-india/articleshow/59252990.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729005531/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/air-india-was-at-its-peak-during-the-jrd-tata-times-jitendra-bhargava-former-ed-air-india/articleshow/59252990.cms |archive-date=29 July 2017 |access-date=24 October 2017 |publisher=Economictimes.indiatimes.com}}</ref>
* 18 June - [[C. Rajagopalachari]] introduced [[Modified Scheme of Elementary Education 1953|Modified Scheme of Elementary Education]] in [[Madras State]]. The scheme was widely criticised and opposed due to [[Casteism]] ingrained in it.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-12-15 |title=Those Were The Days: How Rajaji’s ‘kula kalvi thittam’ became a controversial education reform |url=https://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2019/12/15013004/1203824/Those-Were-The-Days-How-Rajajis-kula-kalvi-thittam-.vpf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927152855/https://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2019/12/15013004/1203824/Those-Were-The-Days-How-Rajajis-kula-kalvi-thittam-.vpf |archive-date=2020-09-27 |access-date=2025-10-23 |work=dtNext.in |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 15 July - [[Kallakudi demonstration]] in Tamilnadu.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Panneerselvan |first=A. S. |date=2021-03-23 |title=How the Kallakudi agitation became a turning point in Karunanidhi’s political life |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/how-kallakudi-agitation-became-turning-point-karunanidhi-s-political-life-145744 |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=The News Minute |language=en}}</ref>
* 8 August - [[Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]] [[Sheikh Abdullah]] and his government dismissed by Sadr-e-Riyasat [[Karan Singh]].
* 15 September - Police firing against labourers at [[Mattancherry]] for protesting against the chappa system, an early work-guarantee scheme.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-09-16 |title=Chappa redux: Working class heroes of west Kochi |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/chappa-redux-working-class-heroes-of-west-kochi/articleshow/48982526.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-03-10 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
* 1 October – [[Andhra State]] was formed carving [[Telugu language|Telugu]] speaking regions out of erstwhile [[Madras Presidency]].<ref>{{cite web |title=THE ANDHRA STATE ACT,1953 |url=http://theindianlawyer.in/statutesnbareacts/acts/a46.html |access-date=26 August 2013 |archive-date=16 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816123339/http://theindianlawyer.in/statutesnbareacts/acts/a46.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Law==
* [[Government of India]] sets up first [[Backward classes]] commission headed by [[Kaka Kalelkar]].

==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 (Lok Sabha constituency)|Tirupati]].
* 27 May – [[Ranjit Sinha]], police officer (died 2021)
* 15 June – [[Kambhampati Hari Babu]], politician and member of parliament from [[Visakhapatnam (Lok Sabha constituency)|Visakhapatnam]].
* 11 July – [[Suresh Prabhu]], Politician, [[Railway Minister]] since 2014.
*24 July {{ndash}} [[Srividya]], actress (died 2006).
*30 August – [[Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan]], engineer, author and [[Indian classical music]] researcher,
*8 December – [[Manobala]], director, actor, producer and comedian.

==Deaths==
*22 November – [[Syed Sulaiman Nadvi]], historian, biographer, [[littérateur]] and scholar of [[Islam]] (born 1884).
*10 December – [[Abdullah Yusuf Ali]], [[Ulema|Islamic scholar]] who translated the [[Qur'an]] into English (born 1872).

== See also ==
* [[Bollywood films of 1953]]

== References ==
<references />{{Years in India}}
{{Year in Asia|1953}}

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