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{{Year in India|1954}}<br />
Events in the year '''1954 in the Republic of India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[President of India]] – [[Rajendra Prasad]]<br />
* [[Prime Minister of India]] – [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br />
* [[Vice President of India]] – [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br />
* [[Chief Justice of India]] – <br />
** until 3 Jan. – [[M. Patanjali Sastri]] <br />
** 4 Jan.-22 Dec. – [[Mehr Chand Mahajan]] <br />
** starting 23 Dec. – [[Bijan Kumar Mukherjea]]<br />
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===Governors===<br />
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] – [[Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] – [[Jairamdas Daulatram]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] – [[Madhav Shrihari Aney]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] – [[Raja Sir Maharaj Singh]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] – [[Fazal Ali]] (until 9 February), [[P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja]] (starting 9 February)<br />
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] – [[Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] – [[Maharaj Man Singh II]]<br />
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] – [[Hormasji Peroshaw Mody]]<br />
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] – [[Harendra Coomar Mookerjee]]<br />
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==Events==<br />
* National income - {{INR}}109,771 million<br />
* [[26 January]] – First Bharat Ratna in India :<br />
** First recipient: [[C. Rajagopalachari]]<br />
** Second recipient: [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]<br />
** Third recipient: [[C. V. Raman]]<br />
*15 February - [[1954 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election|Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election]] results in majority for [[Indian National Congress]]. [[Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress]] makes significant gains in [[Kanyakumari]] region.<br />
* [[22 March]] – [[Jayendra Saraswathi]] becomes the 70th [[Shankaracharya of Kanchi]].<br />
* 4 April – [[Congress Working Committee]] set up a subcommittee under [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]'s chairmanship to examine the working of the [[Constitution of India]].<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Austin |first=Granville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ |title=Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0195648889 |pages=101 |language=en}}</ref><br />
* 29 April - [[India]] and [[China]] signs [[Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence|Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Panchsheel)]].<br />
* 18 May - [[K. Kamaraj]] drops the controversial [[Modified Scheme of Elementary Education 1953|Modified Scheme of Elementary Education]] introduced by [[Rajaji]] in [[Madras State]].<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><br />
* 8 July - [[Bhakra-Nangal Dam]] inaugurated.<br />
* 11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.<ref>P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987,</ref><br />
* Seven killed in police firing in [[Travancore]] following agitation by [[Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why did Kerala surrender Kanyakumari to Tamil Nadu without a fight? |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2020/10/31/why-did-kerala-surrender-kanyakumari-to-tamil-nadu.html |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=www.onmanorama.com}}</ref><br />
* [[6 November]] – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.<br />
*7 December - [[National Defence Academy (India)|National Defence Academy]] inaugurated at Pune.<br />
*Sahitya Akademi was established in 1954<br />
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==Law==<br />
* [[5 July]] – The [[Andhra Pradesh High Court]] is established.<br />
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==Births==<br />
*11 January – [[Kailash Satyarthi]], Social Reformer, Co-recipient of [[2014 Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Prize 2014]] <br />
*<br />
*25 March – [[Pinky Lilani]], author and businesswoman<br />
*12 May – [[Edappadi K. Palaniswami]], chief minister of Tamil Nadu 2018.<br />
*4 July {{ndash}} [[Manjula Vijayakumar]], actress (died 2013). <br />
*10 July – [[Malyadri Sriram]], politician and member of parliament from [[Bapatla (SC) (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bapatla]].<br />
*14 July<br />
** [[Tanikella Bharani]], playwright, script writer and actor.<br />
** [[R. Sarathkumar]], actor and politician.<br />
*23 July – [[Nadeem al-Wajidi]], Islamic scholar and writer (died 2024).<br />
*1 August {{ndash}} [[Gurinder Singh|Baba Gurinder Singh]], Fifth and Present Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas.<br />
*11 August – [[Yashpal Sharma (cricketer)|Yashpal Sharma]], cricketer (died 2021).<br />
*14 September – [[Shrikant Jichkar]], politician (died 2004).<br />
*15 September {{ndash}} [[P. Vasu]], film director and actor.<br />
*3 October {{ndash}} [[Sathyaraj]], actor, producer and director.<br />
*3 November – [[Laxmikant Berde]], comic actor (died 2004).<br />
*7 November – [[Kamal Haasan]], actor and film director.<br />
*9 November – [[Shankar Nag]], actor and director (died 1990).<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
*[[22 October]] – [[Jibanananda Das]], poet, writer, novelist and essayist in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] (b. [[1899 in India|1899]])<br />
*[[5 December]] – Sir [[Girija Shankar Bajpai]], civil servant, diplomat and Governor of Bombay (b. [[1891 in India|1891]])<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of Bollywood films of 1954]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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