| | 1 | ''''1955: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * Nehru’s celebrated speech at the Avadi Congress calls for a ‘Socialistic Pattern of Society’. Khrushchev and Bulganin come to India. Nehru attends the Bandung Afro-Asian Conference, which inaugurates the Non- Aligned Movement in a cold war context. The leaders of the movement, Nehru, Nasser and Tito, meet again at Briony in 1956. |
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| | 5 | * Cow slaughter is banned in Andhra Pradesh. |
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| | 7 | * The National Defence Academy is set up at Khadakvasla. |
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| | 9 | * The Hindu Marriage Act is amended, making the minimum marriageable age for women 15 and for men 18; it also provides for divorces and individual separations. |
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| | 11 | * Dharamvir Bharati writes his Hindi verse play, Andha Yug; staged by Satyadev Dubey for Theatre Unit in 1960, it is one of the inaugural productions of a modern, post- Independence Indian theatre. |
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| | 13 | * Pather Panchali has its world première at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, coinciding with the official opening of the Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India Exhibition; in India, the film makes money for the West Bengal State Government, a significant factor in persuading the central government to set up the Film Finance Corporation in 1960, long after it had rejected the 1951 Enquiry Committee’s recommendation as financially impracticable. |
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| | 15 | * Festivals of Indian cinema in Beijing and London. |
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| | 17 | * The Children’s Film Society is set up. |
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| | 19 | * The South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce starts the Journal of the Film Chamber. |
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| | 21 | * The High Court at Andhra Pradesh grants an interim stay on the law of compulsory exhibition of ‘approved’ films and on the show tax. |