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{{Year in India|1959}}<br />
Events in the year '''1959 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]] – [[Sudhi Ranjan Das]] (until 30 Sep.), [[Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha]] (starting 1 Oct.)<br />
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===Governors===<br />
* [[List of governors of Andhra Pradesh|Andhra Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Assam|Assam]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Bihar|Bihar]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Karnataka|Karnataka]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Kerala|Kerala]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Madhya Pradesh|Madhya Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Maharashtra|Maharashtra]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Odisha|Odisha]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Punjab, India|Punjab]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Rajasthan|Rajasthan]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of Uttar Pradesh|Uttar Pradesh]] –<br />
* [[List of governors of West Bengal|West Bengal]] –<br />
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==Events==<br />
*[[Bajaj Auto]] obtains license from [[Government of India]] to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.<br />
*Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India<br />
*India grants political asylum to the [[Dalai Lama]] after he flees from [[Tibet]].<br />
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==Births==<br />
*3 January - [[Ninong Ering]], politician and member of parliament from [[Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Arunachal East]].<br />
*6 January – [[Kapil Dev]], cricketer.<br />
*29 July – [[Sanjay Dutt]], actor.<br />
*19 December – [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]], politician and Chief Minister of [[Karnataka]].<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
*1 November – [[M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar]], actor and [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] singer (born 1909).<br />
*4 December – [[Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi]], freedom fighter and first general secretary of the [[Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind]]. (born 1888)<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Bollywood films of 1959]]<br />
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