1913 in India

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

• National income - ₹13,473 million
• 3 May- Raja Harischandra, First full-length movie of India released. Beginning of Indian Film Industry.
• 6 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself.

Ghadar party foundation

• Official Trustees Act^[1]
• White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act^[2]

• 5 March – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music (died July y 25, 2009).
• 1 May– Balraj Sahni, Indian actor (died 13 April 1973)
• Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002).
• Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998).
• Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001).
• 29 march Bhawani Prasad Mishra – a great poet of Hindi
• 1 July PP Kumaramangalam, Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army (08 Jun 1966 to 07 Jun 1969) (died 2000).
• 27 July Kalpana Dutta Joshi, Freedom Fighter, Communist Movement in India (died 08 Feb 1995 in Calcutta, India).

• Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (born 1861).