1953 in India

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1953
in
India

Centuries:	18th • 19th • 20th • 21st
Decades:	1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

15 June – Indian Airlines created.
Air India nationalised.
Government of India sets up first backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.

7 January – K. Bhagyaraj, director, actor, script-writer and producer
1 April — Hari Chand, long-distance runner
8 May, Devi Prasad Shetty, top India's leading heart surgeon and social entrepreneur
22 July – Mazhar Khan, actor, producer and director (died 1998)
30 August – Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan, engineer, author and Indian classical music researcher
7 September – Mammootty, actor

22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (born 1884).
10 December – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English (born 1872).

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1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1940s	1947 1948 1949

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