Prime Minister: Jawaharlal Nehru

The Age Of Stars

Partition, planning, aid consortia and nationalised banks.

Vol. LXXXVThe edition of 1959 · The Planned Republic0 records
Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru
President
Rajendra Prasad
Finance Minister
Morarji Desai
RBI Governor
H. V. R. Iengar

Bank Rate

4%

unchanged on 1958

Arabian Light

$2.08

unchanged on 1958

From the record

A quiet year in the ledgers

No dated event for 1959 has yet been extracted from the sources. The paper prints what is documented and leaves the rest blank, rather than guessing.

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