1904 in India

Events in the year 1904 in India.

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Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents
  • Emperor of India – Edward VII
  • Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Events
  • National income - ₹8,840 million
  • The gun carriage factory is established in Jabalpur
  • 31 October – The Kumbakonam Bank Limited, is incorporated as a limited company (later known as the City Union Bank)
  • The secret Abhinav Bharat Society is founded by extremist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Law
  • Raleigh Bill became Indian Universities Act
  • 18 March, the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act is passed[1]

Births
  • 28 March – V. Nagayya, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (died 1973).
  • 29 July – J. R. D. Tata a French-born Indian aviator and businessman who became India's first licensed pilot (died 1993).
  • 8 August – Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (died 1982).
  • 26 August – C. R. Kesavan Vaidyar, social activist and industrialist (died 1999).
  • 1 October – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (died 1977).
  • 2 October – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (died 1966).
  • 29 December – Kuvempu, poet, writer and playwright (died 1994).

Full date unknown
  • Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (died 1988).
  • Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar, writer (died 1991).
  • Murad, actor (died 1989).

Deaths

References
  1. "Ancient Monuments Preservation Act". India Code. Retrieved 29 March 2022.


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