1957 in 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

• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Tamil Nadu –
• Telangana –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

  Events

• India passes a bill making Kashmir under its control as part of the Union.
• 5 April – 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.
• Parliament passes the Copyright Act of 1957

  Sport

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

  Births

• 1 February – Jackie Shroff, actor.
• 22 August – Deepti Naval, actress.
• Thomas Zacharia, computational scientist.
• Akhalesh Bisaria, nuclear waste engineer

  Deaths

• 5 April – Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist.
• 30 August – N. S. Krishnan, comedian, actor, playback singer and writer.
• 5 December – Hussain Ahmed Madani, Islamic scholar.