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India in 1957

Historical records for India in 1957, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

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Historical records

March

March 1957Second General ElectionJawaharlal Nehru

New Delhi · Government / Government of India

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

Other Events

1957GovernorZakir Husain

Bihar · Government / Government of India

Zakir Husain is appointed Governor of Bihar.

1957Secretary of State for DefenceVengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon

Government / Government of India

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

1957V-A TheoryEnnackal Chandy George Sudarshan

Rochester · Science / Physics

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

Names involved

Ennackal Chandy George SudarshanJawaharlal NehruVengalil Krishnan Krishna MenonZakir Husain

Places involved

BiharNew DelhiRochester

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.