1957 in India explained

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

• National income - 137,104 million
• January 26 - Portuguese Indian troops open fire at TarakPardi in Bombay State for securing right of pass between enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.^[1]
• April 1 - Second Nehru ministry adopts Decimalisation of Indian rupee and discontinue the concept of anna coin system.^[2]
• April 5 – 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.^[3]
• August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup held at France.^{[4] [5]}
• September 1 - Indian Air Force inducts its first jet bomber Canberra at Squadron 5, Agra.^{[6] [7] [8]}
• December 4 - Hindustan Shipyard delivers its first passenger cum cargo vessel M V Andaman.^[9]

Date not known

• V. S. Wakankar discovers Bhimbetka rock shelter cave paintings.^[10]

Law

• India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
• Copyright Act

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: July 2, 2007 . 1957: Second Five Year Plan was incorporated . 2022-04-14 . India Today . en.
2. News: Doctor . Vikram . The forgotten anniversary of decimalisation . The Economic Times . 2022-04-14.
3. Web site: December 15, 2021 . K. K. . Kailash . From the archives: E.M.S. Namboodiripad, a very contemporary Marxist . 2022-04-14 . India Today . en.
4. Web site: IPA History . 2022-04-14 . ipa.co.in.
5. Web site: 2017-05-19 . Jaipur 'maharaja' Sawai Padmanabh Singh to represent India in Polo World Cup . 2022-04-14 . The PinkCity Post . en-GB.
6. Web site: 2017-09-01 . 60 years since IAF’s Canberra jets were first deployed; the history of India’s war horse . 2022-04-14 . The Indian Express . en.
7. Web site: Indian Air Force marks 60 years of its Canberra bombers . 2022-04-14 . Financialexpress . en.
8. Web site: 31 August 2017 . Chethan . Kumar . indian air force: IAF’s first generation jet bomber Canberra turns 60 tomorrow India News - Times of India . 2022-04-14 . The Times of India . en.
9. Web site: Hindustan Shipyard Limited - Saga by jonnala nagireddy - Issuu . 2022-04-14 . issuu.com . en.
10. News: Venugopal . Vasudha . RSS to honour man who discovered Bhimbetka caves . The Economic Times . 2022-04-14.