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National income - ₹161,017 million
March 31 - India grants political asylum to the Dalai Lama after he fled Tibet and crossed into Indian territory following 1959 Tibetan uprising.^[1]
April 10 - An English Electric Canberra jet bomber of Indian Air Force that crossed into Pakistani Airspace was shot down near Rawalpindi by Pakistan Air Force's Sabre jets.^[2]^[3]
April 27 - Indian Navy officer Nanavati shoots his wife's lover Ahuja and becomes the basis for Nanavati Case.^[4]
May 1 - President of India Rajendra Prasad gave assent for Reserve Bank of India (Amendment) Act 1959 which created provision for introduction of External Rupee (Gulf Rupee and Hajj Rupee) for using as tender in Trucial States, Oman, Qatar etc. The move is meant to curb the misuse of Indian rupee by gold smugglers.^[5]
July 31 - The EMS ministry, an elected communist government in Kerala brought down through President's rule following Vimochana Samaram.

Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.^[6]

3 January – Ninong Ering, politician and member of parliament from Arunachal East.
6 January – Kapil Dev, cricketer.
15 May - Anandaraj, actor.
25 June – Suresh Krissna, film director.
29 July – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
29 August – Suman, actor.
29 August – Nagarjuna, actor and film producer.
19 December – H. D. Kumaraswamy, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.

1 November – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, actor and Carnatic singer (born 1909).
4 December – Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi, freedom fighter and first general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. (born 1888)

Years in India (1500–present)

Pre-British period

British India (1612–1950)

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States with limited recognition	Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Taiwan Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Bahrain Brunei Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colony of Aden Cyprus Kuwait

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