1959 in India

Incumbents

• President of India – Rajendra Prasad
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice President of India - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das, Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

  Governors

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

  Events

• Bajaj Auto obtains license from Government of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers in India.
• Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India
• India grants political asylum to the Dalai Lama after he flees from Tibet.

  Births

• 3 January - Ninong Ering, politician and member of parliament from Arunachal East.
• 6 January – Kapil Dev, cricketer.
• 29 July – Sanjay Dutt, actor.
• 19 December – H. D. Kumaraswamy, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.

  Deaths

• 1 November – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, actor and Carnatic singer.