Incumbents

Events

National income - ₹31,435 million
26 January – The Indian National Congress declares January 26 as Independence Day, or the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
28 February - Sir C V Raman Received Nobel Prize in Physics.
2 March – Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later.
12 March – Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt – more will join them during the Salt March that ends on 5 April.
6 April – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and taking salt.
18 April – Chittagong armoury raid also known as Chittagong uprising.
30 April – The Vedaranyam Salt satyagraha led by Rajaji and Sardar Vedarathinam Pillai culminates in South India
4–5 May – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again.
October – First Round Table Conference opens in London.^[1]
28 December – Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations

3 June – George Fernandes, politician (died 2019)^[3]
6 June – Sunil Dutt, actor, producer, director and politician (died 2005).
7 June – Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (died 1992)
10 June – Satya Priya Mahathero, Bangladeshi Buddhist pundit, religious leader and social worker (died 2019)
26 June – Mehli Irani, cricketer (died 2021)
30 June – Nabeesa Ummal, politician (died 2023)
9 July – Kailasam Balachander, Producer, Director, Actor (died 2014).
11 July – Shafiqur Rahman Barq, politician
10 August – R. Nagaswamy, historian and archaeologist (died 2022).
5 November – Arjun Singh, politician and Minister (died 2011).
18 November – Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, politician (died 2018)^[4]
23 November – Geeta Dutt, playback singer (died 1972).

12 May Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (born 1858)
16 September – Martial Paillot, French Roman Catholic missionary, history professor and parish priest
28 September – T K Madhavan, the architect of Vaikam Sayagraham and organizing secretary of SNDP Yogam.

^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
^ United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations (1976). Human Rights in India: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 118.
^ India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (2000). Who's who. Parliament Secretariat. p. 647.

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