1938 in India

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Events in the year 1938 in India. Indian independence – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.

Incumbents[]

  • Emperor of India – George VI
  • Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

Events[]

  • Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.[1]
  • December – Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.[2]

Births[]

  • 7 January – B. Saroja Devi, actress.
  • 13 January
    • Shivkumar Sharma, musician
    • Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet. (died 2019)
  • 18 March – Shashi Kapoor, Bollywood actor (died 2017)
  • 31 March – Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi. (died 2019)
  • 19 May – Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)
  • 12 June – Yesudasan, political cartoonist (died 2021)
  • 1 July – Durai Murugan, lawyer and politician
  • 9 July – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died 1985).
  • 13 July – Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
  • 15 July – Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru
  • 19 July – Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004).
  • 19 July – Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist.
  • 25 July – Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.[3]
  • 8 September – Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007).
  • 17 November – Shamim Hanafi, Urdu scholar (died 2021)
  • 11 December – T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died 2018)

Full date unknown[]

  • Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
  • Manohar Singh, theatre director and actor. (died 2002)

Deaths[]

  • 16 January – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (born 1876).
  • 14 November – Mahatma Hansraj, educationist, Arya Samaj leader (born 1864)

References[]

  1. ^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
  2. ^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
  3. ^ "A book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections" Sudhir Kakar, Viking Press


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