1941 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1941 in India.

Incumbents[edit | edit source]

Emperor of India – George VI
Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
President of the Indian National Congress - Abul Kalam Azad^[1]

Events[edit | edit source]

National income - ₹44,085 million
June 21 - Rajendra Prasad lays the foundation stone of Scindia Shipyard at Visakhapatnam.^[2]

Law[edit | edit source]

The Delhi Restriction of Uses of Land Act, 1941
The Berar Laws Act, 1941

Births[edit | edit source]

1 January – Asrani, actor.
17 January – Bindu, actress.
25 March – Udyavara Madhava Acharya, writer, poet and actor (died 2020)
10 April – Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
2 July – Ashalata Wabgaonkar, actress (died 2020).
5 July – Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993–2003
15 July – Nikhil Kumar, politician.
17 July – Bharathiraja, filmmaker.
31 July – Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician and Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 2004).
4 September – Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

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Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.
Yasmeen Lari, Architect

Deaths[edit | edit source]

28 March – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (born 1877).
7 August – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (born 1861).
9 November – Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy (born 1872).

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Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born 1862).

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Indian National Congress: From 1885 till 2017, a brief history of past presidents". The Indian Express. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
↑ "Hindustan Shipyard Limited - Saga by jonnala nagireddy - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.

Years in India (1500–present)

Pre-British period

British India (1612–1950)

Republic of India (1950–present)

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