1954 in India
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in India Events in the year 1954 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 –
- until 3 Jan. – M. Patanjali Sastri
- 4 Jan.-22 Dec. – Mehr Chand Mahajan
- starting 23 Dec. – Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
- Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
- Bihar – Madhav Shrihari Aney
- Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
- Odisha – Fazal Ali (until 9 February), P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja (starting 9 February)
- Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
- Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
- Uttar Pradesh – Hormasji Peroshaw Mody
- West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee
Events
- National income - Template:INR109,771 million
- 26 January – First Bharat Ratna in India :
- First recipient: C. Rajagopalachari
- Second recipient: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Third recipient: C. V. Raman
- 15 February - Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election results in majority for Indian National Congress. Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress makes significant gains in Kanyakumari region.
- 22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.
- 4 April – Congress Working Committee set up a subcommittee under Jawaharlal Nehru's chairmanship to examine the working of the Constitution of India.<ref name=":03">Template:Cite book</ref>
- 29 April - India and China signs Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Panchsheel).
- 18 May - K. Kamaraj drops the controversial Modified Scheme of Elementary Education introduced by Rajaji in Madras State.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- 8 July - Bhakra-Nangal Dam inaugurated.
- 11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.<ref>P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987,</ref>
- Seven killed in police firing in Travancore following agitation by Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.
- 7 December - National Defence Academy inaugurated at Pune.
- Sahitya Akademi was established in 1954
Law
- 5 July – The Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
Births
- 11 January – Kailash Satyarthi, Social Reformer, Co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2014
- 25 March – Pinky Lilani, author and businesswoman
- 12 May – Edappadi K. Palaniswami, chief minister of Tamil Nadu 2018.
- 4 July Template:Ndash Manjula Vijayakumar, actress (died 2013).
- 10 July – Malyadri Sriram, politician and member of parliament from Bapatla.
- 14 July
- Tanikella Bharani, playwright, script writer and actor.
- R. Sarathkumar, actor and politician.
- 23 July – Nadeem al-Wajidi, Islamic scholar and writer (died 2024).
- 1 August Template:Ndash Baba Gurinder Singh, Fifth and Present Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas.
- 11 August – Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (died 2021).
- 14 September – Shrikant Jichkar, politician (died 2004).
- 15 September Template:Ndash P. Vasu, film director and actor.
- 3 October Template:Ndash Sathyaraj, actor, producer and director.
- 3 November – Laxmikant Berde, comic actor (died 2004).
- 7 November – Kamal Haasan, actor and film director.
- 9 November – Shankar Nag, actor and director (died 1990).
Deaths
- 22 October – Jibanananda Das, poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899)
- 5 December – Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, civil servant, diplomat and Governor of Bombay (b. 1891)