Incumbents

• President of India
  President of India
  The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
  
   – Rajendra Prasad
  Rajendra Prasad
  Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
  
  
• Prime Minister of India
  Prime Minister of India
  The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
  
   – Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru
  Jawaharlal Nehru , often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was an Indian statesman who became the first Prime Minister of independent India and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the...
  
  

Events

• The Imperial Bank of India
  Imperial Bank of India
  The Imperial Bank of India was the oldest and the largest commercial bank of the Indian subcontinent, and was subsequently transformed into State Bank of India in 1955.-Origin:...
  
  , the oldest (est. 1921) and the largest commercial bank
  Commercial bank
  After the implementation of the Glass–Steagall Act, the U.S. Congress required that banks engage only in banking activities, whereas investment banks were limited to capital market activities. As the two no longer have to be under separate ownership under U.S...
  
   of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed into the State Bank of India
  State Bank of India
  The State Bank of India is the largest Indian banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is state-owned. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest...
  
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Births

• 2 May - Maharaj Krishan Kaushik
  Maharaj Krishan Kaushik
  Maharaj Krishan Kaushik is a former member of the India national field hockey team and is former coach of the Indian women's national field hockey team. He was a member of the team when it won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.In 1998, he received the Arjuna Award...
  
  , field hockey player and coach.
• 25 August - Khan Shein Kunwar
  Khan Shein Kunwar
  -See also:*List of Urdu language writers*Urdu literature...
  
  , short story writer.
• 17 October - Smita Patil
  Smita Patil
  Smita Patil was an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Regarded among the finest stage and film actresses of her times, Patil appeared in over 75 Hindi and Marathi films in a career that spanned just over a decade. During her career, she received two National Film Awards and a...
  
  , actress (d.1986
  1986 in India
  Events in the year 1986 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – Zail Singh* Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi-Events:*1 April - VSNL incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1956....
  
  ).
• 5 November - Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar
  Karan Thapar is one of India's noted television commentators and interviewers. He is the youngest child of General P. N. Thapar and Mrs. Bimla Thapar.-Education:...
  
  , television commentator and interviewer.
• 13 December - Manohar Parrikar
  Manohar Parrikar
  Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005....
  
  , politician and Chief Minister of Goa.

See also

• Bollywood films of 1955
  Bollywood films of 1955
  A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1955:-Highest grossing:The top ten grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1955:-1955:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...