1959 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1959 in the Republic of India.

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]

Events[edit]

Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India
India grants political asylum to the Dalai Lama after he flees from Tibet.

Births[edit]

3 January - Ninong Ering, politician and member of parliament from Arunachal East.
6 January – Kapil Dev, cricketer.
29 July – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
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[edit]

Bollywood films of 1959

Years in India (1500–present)

Pre-British period

British India (1612–1950)

Republic of India (1950–present)

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