1952 in India

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← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in India → 1953 1954 1955
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Events in the year 1952 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[]

• Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
• Bihar – Madhav Shrihari Aney (until 15 June), R. R. Diwakar (starting 15 June)
• Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
• Odisha – Asaf Ali (until 6 June), Fazal Ali (starting 7 June)
• Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
• Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
• Uttar Pradesh – Hormasji Pherozeshah Modi (until 1 June), Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (starting 1 June)
• West Bengal – Kailash Nath Katju (until 1 November), Harendra Coomar Mookerjee (starting 1 November)

Events[]

• 17 April – Membership of the first lok sabha starts.
• 13 May – Jawaharlal Nehru forms his first government.
• 13 May – First Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha session commenced.
• 15 May – G.V. Mavlankar handles the charge as Lok Sabha Speaker.
• 30 May – M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar handles the charge as Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker.
• The first general election is held. The Indian National Congress headed by Jawaharlal Nehru sweeps into power.

Births[]

• 18 January – Veerappan, bandit (died 2004).
• 3 February – Deepti Naval, actress.
• 19 March – Mohan Babu, actor, producer and politician.
• 31 March – Letika Saran, former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, India.
• 25 April – Brij Narayan, sarod player
• 30 May – Ambareesh, actor and politician. (died 2018)
• 20 June – Vikram Seth, poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
• 23 June – Raj Babbar, actor.
• 27 June – Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty, banker (died 2021)
• 29 July – Harshad Mehta, stockbroker (died 2001)
• 4 September – Rishi Kapoor, actor. (died 2020)
• 15 September – K. Vijay Kumar, retired IPS officer.
• 18 December – Noor Alam Khalil Amini, Sunni Muslim scholar (died 2021)
• 28 December – Hemant Shesh Hindi poet, editor, art critic

Full date unknown[]

• Urvashi Butalia, historian, feminist, and publisher.
• Daisy Irani, actress.
• Deepak Kumar, historian and philosopher of science.

Deaths[]

• 7 March – Paramahansa Yogananda, yogi and guru (born 1893).
• Rashid Jahan, author, short story writer and playwright (born 1905).

See also[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1952