1954 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 - ₹109,771 million
 * 22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.
 * 11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.
 * 6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.
 * 26 January – First Bharat Ratna in India :
 * First recipient: C Rajagopalachari
 * Second recipient: Dr.S Radhakrishnan
 * Third recipient: C V Raman
 * 4 April – Congress Working Committee set up a subcommittee under Jawaharlal Nehru's chairmanship to examine the working of the Constitution of India.
 * 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 – 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.
 * 14 July – R. Sarathkumar, actor and politician.
 * 1 August – 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 – P. Vasu, film director and actor.
 * 3 October – 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).
 * 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)