1953 in India
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Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India.
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- 15 June - Indian Airlines created.
- Air India nationalised.
- Government of India sets up first backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.
[edit] Births
- 7 January - K. Bhagyaraj, director, actor, script-writer and producer
- April 1 — Hari Chand, long-distance runner
- May 8, 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
[edit] Deaths
- 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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