1957 in India

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Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 1 August), Bhim Sen Sachar (starting 1 August)
• Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
• Bihar – R. R. Diwakar (until 5 July), Zakir Hussain (starting 5 July)
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
• Madhya Pradesh – Pattabhi Sitaramayya (until 13 June), Hari Vinayak Pataskar (starting 13 June)
• Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
• Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 31 July), Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (starting 31 July)
• Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
• Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events[]

• India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
• 5 April – First elected government of Kerala. Communist Party of India won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
• Parliament passes the Copyright Act of 1957

Sport[]

• Balbir Singh Sr. became the first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.

Births[]

• 1 February – Jackie Shroff, actor.
• 10 March – Thanu Padmanabhan, theoretical physicist and cosmologist (d. 2021)
• 20 October – Dennis Joseph, scriptwriter and director (d. 2021)
• Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist.

Deaths[]

• 5 April – Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist (born 1909).
• 30 August – N. S. Krishnan, comedian, actor, playback singer and writer (born 1908).
• 5 December – Hussain Ahmed Madani, Islamic scholar (born 1879).

See also[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1957