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1957 in India

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Historical records for India in 1957

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March

March 1957

Second General Election

Nehru, Jawaharlal · New Delhi · Prime Minister of India · Government / Government of India

Polling for the second Lok Sabha returns Congress to power and gives Jawaharlal Nehru another parliamentary mandate.

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1957

Governor

Husain, Zakir · Bihar · Governor of Bihar · Government / Government of India

Zakir Husain is appointed Governor of Bihar.

1957

Secretary of State for Defence

Menon, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna · Minister of Defence · Government / Government of India

V.K. Krishna Menon becomes India's Minister of Defence.

1957

V-A Theory

Sudarshan, Ennackal Chandy George · Rochester · Physicist · Science / Physics

E. C. G. Sudarshan and Robert Marshak formulate the vector-minus-axial-vector description of weak interactions.

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