1938 in India

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

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Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

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

Events
  • National income - ₹29,799 million
  • Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.[1]

Law
  • December – Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.[2]
  • Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act
  • Insurance Act
  • Manoeuvres, Field Firing and Artillery Practice Act
  • Cutchi Memons Act

Births
  • 7 January – B. Saroja Devi, actress
  • 13 January
    • Shivkumar Sharma, musician. (died 2022)
    • Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet (died 2019)
  • 10 March – Ijaz Butt, Pakistani cricketer (died 2023)
  • 18 March – Shashi Kapoor, Bollywood actor. (died 2017)
  • 31 March – Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi (died 2019)
  • 9 April – Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani diplomat (died 2023)
  • 23 April – S. Janaki, playback singer.
  • 5 May – Chandrama Santha, politician (died 2021)
  • 19 May – Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)
  • 10 June – Rahul Bajaj, businessman (died 2022)
  • 12 June – Yesudasan, political cartoonist (died 2021)
  • 1 July
    • Hariprasad Chaurasia, classical flutist
    • 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
  • 18 July – R. K. Krishna Kumar, business executive (died 2023).
  • 19 July
    • Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004)
    • Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist
  • 25 July – Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.[3] (died 2024)
  • 8 September – Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007)
  • 24 September – Piloo Reporter, cricket umpire (died 2023)
  • 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).
  • 21 April - Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Poet, politician (born1877)
  • 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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