Events in the year 1955 in the Republic of India.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President of India – Rajendra Prasad
- Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
- Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Chief Justice of India – Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
- Assam – Jairamdas Daulatram
- Bihar – R. R. Diwakar
- Maharashtra – Harekrushna Mahatab (starting 2 March)
- Odisha – P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja
- Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh
- Rajasthan – Maharaj Man Singh II
- Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
- West Bengal – Harendra Coomar Mookerjee
Events
- National income - ₹111,748 million
- The Imperial Bank of India, the oldest (est. 1921) and the largest commercial bank of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed into the State Bank of India.
Law
Births
- 5 January – Mamata Banerjee, politician [1]
- 27 January – Ratnottama Sengupta, film journalist
- 7 March – Anupam Kher, actor
- 3 April – Hariharan, playback singer
- 11 April – Rohini Hattangadi, actress.
- 2 May – Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, field hockey player and coach. (died 2021)
- 11 May – Keshav Desiraju, civil servant (died 2021)
- 24 May – Rajesh Roshan, music director.
- 22 August – Chiranjeevi Konidela, actor.
- 17 October – Smita Patil, actress (died 1986).
- 5 November – Karan Thapar, television commentator and interviewer.
- 8 November – Pandula Ravindra Babu, politician and member of parliament from Amalapuram.
- 29 November – Rajendrasinh Jadeja, cricketer (died 2021)
- 1 December – Udit Narayan, playback singer
- 12 December – Chandan Mitra, journalist (died 2021)
- 13 December – Manohar Parrikar, politician and Chief Minister of Goa. (died 2019)
Deaths
- 1 January – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist (born 1894).
- Nobel death day 10 December 1955