1903 in India
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Events in the year 1903 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India â Edward VII
- Viceroy of India â George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Events
- National income - â¹8,926 million
- 1 January â Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
- 20 March - Victoria Memorial Act passed for erection of Victoria Memorial, Kolkata.[1]
- 15 May - Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam, the socio-religious reformation organization of the Ezhava community in Kerala, South India established by the trio, Narayana Guru, Dr Padmanabhan Palpu, and Kumaran Asan.[2]
- Plague (disease) breakout at Coimbatore.[3]
Law
Births
- 3 April â Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, social reformer and freedom fighter (died 1988).
- Gopi Krishna, yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer and writer (died 1984).
- June 25 - George Orwell, author, wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, and others (died 1950)
Deaths
- 29 December - Baba Jaimal Singh, Founder of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (born 1839).
