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1959 in India

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Historical records for India in 1959

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March

March 1959

Dalai Lama Granted Asylum

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

India grants asylum to the Dalai Lama after he flees Tibet following the uprising in Lhasa.

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1959

Cholera Enterotoxin

De, Sambhu Nath · Calcutta · Medical Researcher · Science / Medicine

Sambhu Nath De demonstrates that cell-free filtrates of Vibrio cholerae contain an enterotoxin responsible for the characteristic fluid secretion of cholera.

1959

Party President

Gandhi, Indira Nehru · Party President of CP · Politics / Congress Party

Appointed Party President of the Congress Party

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