Presidency of Rajendra Prasad
1950–1962 · Event
India's first head of state, twelve years defining what a ceremonial presidency under the new constitution would mean.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1950
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)