• Source: 1957 in India

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

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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.
April 1 - Second Nehru ministry adopts Decimalisation of Indian rupee and discontinue the concept of anna coin system.
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.
August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup held at France.
September 1 - Indian Air Force inducts its first jet bomber Canberra at Squadron 5, Agra.
December 4 - Hindustan Shipyard delivers its first passenger cum cargo vessel M V Andaman.




= Date not known

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V. S. Wakankar discovers Bhimbetka rock shelter cave paintings.
Hirakud dam opened




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




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