1958 in India

Events in the year 1958 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 – Sudhi Ranjan Das

Governors

 * Andhra Pradesh – Bhim Sen Sachar
 * Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali
 * Bihar – Zakir Hussain
 * Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
 * Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
 * Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar
 * Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa
 * Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar
 * Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh (until 15 September), Narahar Vishnu Gadgil (starting 15 September)
 * Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh
 * Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
 * West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu

Events

 * National income - ₹152,835 million
 * 1 january - DRDO was established
 * 18 February – Finance minister of India T. T. Krishnamachari resigns following M. C. Chagla Commission report on Haridas Mundhra LIC scandal.
 * 28 February – Jawaharlal Nehru presents Union budget of India as Finance Minister.
 * 26 March - Mother India becomes the first ever Cinema of India to get nominated in the Academy Awards.
 * 29 April - Food poisoning caused by leakage of Folidol during transportation kills 74 in a Lok Sahayak Sena camp at Sasthamkotta, Kerala.
 * 18 to 20 May – The 16th Session of Indian Labour Congress was held at New Delhi.
 * Vimochana Samaram against First Namboodiripad ministry in Kerala
 * Unknown date – Reliance Industries was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in Bombay (present day in Mumbai), as predecessor name was Reliance Commercial Corporation.

Law

 * 22 May – Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Ordinance came into force
 * 11 September – The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 is passed by the Parliament.
 * 1 October – The Standards of Weights and Measures Act took effect.

Sport

 * Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
 * Milkha Singh (field athletics player) had won the gold medal

Births

 * 5 March – Nassar, actor, producer, writer, director, lyricist and singer.
 * 29 April – Saumen Guha, political activist, human rights campaigner and author.
 * 30 May – K. S. Ravikumar, film director and actor.
 * 15 August – Raj Kapoor (Tamil director), film director and actor.
 * 16 August – R. R. Patil, politician (died 2015)
 * 19 September – Lucky Ali, singer, composer and actor
 * 14 October – R. Parthiban, actor and director.
 * 2 December – Lal (actor), actor, director, screenwriter, producer and distributor.
 * 17 December – Jayasudha, actress.