1959 in India

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← 1958 1957 1956 1959 in India → 1960 1961 1962
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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1959 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 – Sudhi Ranjan Das (until 30 Sep.), Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (starting 1 Oct.)

Governors[]

• Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
• Assam –
  • until 22 August: Saiyid Fazal Ali
  • 23 August-14 October:
  • starting 14 October: Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh
• Bihar – Zakir Hussain
• Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
• Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
• Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
• Odisha – Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar
• Punjab – Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
• Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
• West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events[]

• Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.
• Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India
• India grants political asylum to the Dalai Lama after he flees from Tibet.

Births[]

• 3 January – Ninong Ering, politician and member of parliament from Arunachal East.
• 6 January – Kapil Dev, cricketer.
• 29 July – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
• 19 December – H. D. Kumaraswamy, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.

Deaths[]

• 1 November – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, actor and Carnatic singer (born 1909).
• 4 December – Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi, freedom fighter and first general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. (born 1888)

See also[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1959