• Source: 1959 in India

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

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Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
Assam –
until 22 August: Saiyid Fazal Ali
23 August-14 October: Chandreswar Prasad Sinha
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


National income - ₹161,017 million
March 31 - India grants political asylum to the Dalai Lama after he fled Tibet and crossed into Indian territory following 1959 Tibetan uprising.
April 10 - An English Electric Canberra jet bomber of Indian Air Force that crossed into Pakistani Airspace was shot down near Rawalpindi by Pakistan Air Force's Sabre jets.
April 27 - Indian Navy officer Nanavati shoots his wife's lover Ahuja and becomes the basis for Nanavati Case.
May 1 - President of India Rajendra Prasad gave assent for Reserve Bank of India (Amendment) Act 1959 which created provision for introduction of External Rupee (Gulf Rupee and Hajj Rupee) for using as tender in Trucial States, Oman, Qatar etc. The move is meant to curb the misuse of Indian rupee by gold smugglers.
July 31 - The EMS ministry, an elected communist government in Kerala brought down through President's rule following Vimochana Samaram.




= Dates unknown

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Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.




Law


Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India




Births


3 January – Ninong Ering, politician and member of parliament from Arunachal East.
6 January – Kapil Dev, cricketer.
15 May - Anandaraj, actor.
25 June – Suresh Krissna, film director.
29 July – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
29 August – Suman, actor.
29 August – Nagarjuna, actor and film producer.
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




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