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Events in the year 1959 in the Republic of India.
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Incumbents
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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.[1]
- 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.[2][3]
- April 27 - Indian Navy officer Nanavati shoots his wife's lover Ahuja and becomes the basis for Nanavati Case.[4]
- 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.[5]
- July 31 - The EMS ministry, an elected communist government in Kerala brought down through President's rule following Vimochana Samaram.
Dates unknown
edit- Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.[6]
Law
editBirths
edit- 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
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Dalai Lama Gets Asylum In India; Harried In Flight". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Untold story of an IAF Canberra & its crew, 60 years before Wing Commander Abhinandan's MiG". ThePrint. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ^ "The Canberra Incident". Pakistan Horizon. 12 (2): 153–160. 1959. ISSN 0030-980X.
- ^ "The Nanavati Murder Trial That Changed Indian Law, Abolished Jury Trials". NDTV.com. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ Kamalakaran, Ajay. "Gulf rupee: When the Reserve Bank of India played central banker in West Asia". Scroll.in. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Bajaj Auto Ltd". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 April 2022.