1941 in India

Events in the year 1941 in India.

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Centuries:
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  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
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
  • President of the Indian National Congress - Abul Kalam Azad[1]

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

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

Births
  • 6 January – Serajul Alam Khan, Bangladeshi politician and philosopher (died 2023)
  • 17 January – Bindu, actress.
  • 25 March – Udyavara Madhava Acharya, writer, poet and actor (died 2020)
  • 10 April – Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
  • 21 June – Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore
  • 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.
  • Yasmeen Lari, Architect

Deaths
  • 28 March – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (born 1877).
  • 18 June - Ayyankali, social reformer from Kerala famous for Villu vandi Samaram of 1893 (born 1863).
  • 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).

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