1954 in India

Events in the year 1954 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

National income - {{INR}}109,771 million
26 January – First Bharat Ratna in India :
First recipient: C Rajagopalachari
Second recipient: Dr.S Radhakrishnan
Third recipient: C V Raman
22 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.
4 April – Congress Working Committee set up a subcommittee under Jawaharlal Nehru's chairmanship to examine the working of the Constitution of India.{{Cite book |last=Austin |first=Granville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ |title=Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0195648889 |pages=101 |language=en}}
11 August – Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Portuguese forces surrender to the Indian SRP.P S Lele, Dadra and Nagar Haveli: past and present, Published by Usha P. Lele, 1987,
Seven killed in police firing in Travancore following agitation by Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress.{{Cite web |title=Why did Kerala surrender Kanyakumari to Tamil Nadu without a fight? |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2020/10/31/why-did-kerala-surrender-kanyakumari-to-tamil-nadu.html |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=www.onmanorama.com}}
6 November – Bombay Electricity Board is formed.
7 December - National Defence Academy inaugurated at Pune.
Sahitya Akademi was established in 1954

11 January – Kailash Satyarthi, Social Reformer, Co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2014
25 March – Pinky Lilani, author and businesswoman
12 May – Edappadi K. Palaniswami, chief minister of Tamil Nadu 2018.
4 July {{ndash}} Manjula Vijayakumar, actress (died 2013).
10 July – Malyadri Sriram, politician and member of parliament from Bapatla.
14 July
Tanikella Bharani, playwright, script writer and actor.
R. Sarathkumar, actor and politician.
23 July – Nadeem al-Wajidi, Islamic scholar and writer (died 2024).
1 August {{ndash}} Baba Gurinder Singh, Fifth and Present Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas.
11 August – Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (died 2021).
14 September – Shrikant Jichkar, politician (died 2004).
15 September {{ndash}} P. Vasu, film director and actor.
3 October {{ndash}} Sathyaraj, actor, producer and director.
3 November – Laxmikant Berde, comic actor (died 2004).
7 November – Kamal Haasan, actor and film director.
9 November – Shankar Nag, actor and director (died 1990).

22 October – Jibanananda Das, poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899)
5 December – Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai, civil servant, diplomat and Governor of Bombay (b. 1891)