1953 in India

Events in the year 1953 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
Bihar – R. R. Diwakar
Maharashtra – Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
Odisha – Fazal Ali
Punjab – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 11 March), Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (starting 11 March)
Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

National income - ₹116,067 million
15 June – Indian Airlines created.
Air India nationalised.
15 July - Kallakudi demonstration in Tamilnadu.
8 August - Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and his government dismissed by Sadr-e-Riyasat Karan Singh.
15 September - Police firing against labourers at Mattancherry for protesting against the chappa system, an early work-guarantee scheme.
1 October – Andhra State was formed carving Telugu speaking regions out of erstwhile Madras Presidency.

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
15 May – Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli, politician and former member of parliament from Tirupati.
27 May – Ranjit Sinha, police officer (died 2021)
15 June – Kambhampati Hari Babu, politician and member of parliament from Visakhapatnam.
11 July – Suresh Prabhu, Politician, Railway Minister since 2014.
24 July – Srividya, actress (died 2006).
30 August – Avinash Balkrishna Patwardhan, engineer, author and Indian classical music researcher,
8 December – Manobala, director, actor, producer and comedian.

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).