1957 in India

Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

 * President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
 * Prime Minister of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
 * Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
 * Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 1 August), Bhim Sen Sachar (starting 1 August)
 * Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
 * Bihar – R. R. Diwakar (until 5 July), Zakir Hussain (starting 5 July)
 * Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
 * Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
 * Madhya Pradesh – Pattabhi Sitaramayya (until 13 June), Hari Vinayak Pataskar (starting 13 June)
 * Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
 * Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 31 July), Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (starting 31 July)
 * Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
 * Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
 * Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
 * West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

 * National income - ₹137,104 million
 * January 26 - Portuguese Indian troops open fire at TarakPardi in Bombay State for securing right of pass between enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
 * April 1 - Second Nehru ministry adopts Decimalisation of Indian rupee and discontinue the concept of anna coin system.
 * April 5 – First elected government of Kerala. Communist Party of India won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
 * August 25 - Indian Polo Team won the Polo World cup held at France.
 * September 1 - Indian Air Force inducts its first jet bomber Canberra at Squadron 5, Agra.
 * December 4 - Hindustan Shipyard delivers its first passenger cum cargo vessel M V Andaman.

Date not known

 * V. S. Wakankar discovers Bhimbetka rock shelter cave paintings.

Law

 * India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
 * Copyright Act

Sport

 * Balbir Singh Sr. became the first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

 * 1 February – Jackie Shroff, actor.
 * 10 March – Thanu Padmanabhan, theoretical physicist and cosmologist (d. 2021)
 * 20 October – Dennis Joseph, scriptwriter and director (d. 2021)
 * Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist.

Deaths

 * 5 April – Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist (born 1909).
 * 30 August – N. S. Krishnan, comedian, actor, playback singer and writer (born 1908).
 * 5 December – Hussain Ahmed Madani, Islamic scholar (born 1879).