1941 in India

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← 1940 1939 1938 1941 in India → 1942 1943 1944
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1941 in India.

Incumbents[]

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

Births[]

• 1 January – Asrani, actor.
• 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.

Full date unknown[]

• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
• T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.

Deaths[]

• 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).

Full date unknown[]

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born 1862).

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