1933 in India
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Events in the year 1933 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India â George V
- Viceroy of India â The Earl of Willingdon
Events
- National income â â¹ 19,502 million
- January â Extensive prosecutions of Communists for treason.[1]
- Pakistan Declaration published[citation needed]
- Indian National Congress meeting at Calcutta prevented by the police.[2]
- 1 May â Gandhi released.[3]
- 8 May â Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.
- 1 August â Rearrest of Gandhi; released on 24 August.[4]
- Gandhi transfers charge of Congress to Nehru.[5]
- 26 November â A 20 year old landlord from Pakur named Amarendra Chandra Pandey was killed using a Biological agent.[6]
Law
- Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act
Births
- 8 January â Supriya Devi, Bengali actress (born in Burma, now Myanmar) (died 2018).[7]
- 14 February â Madhubala, actress (died 1969).
- 18 February â Nimmi, actress. (died 2020).
- 4 April â Balan K. Nair, actor (died 2000).
- 28 June â V. Sasisekharan, molecular biologist.
- 15 July â M. T. Vasudevan Nair, writer and film director (died 2024).
- 20 July â Roddam Narasimha, scientist (died 2020).
- 1 August â Meena Kumari, actress and poet (died 1972).
- 13 August â Madhur Jaffrey, actress and writer.
- 31 August â Dhiru Parikh, poet, writer and critic (died 2021).
- 5 September â Laxminarayan Ramdas, admiral (died 2024).
- 27 September â Nagesh, comedian actor (died 2009).
- 16 October -- Vinodini Champaklal Shah, educator.
- 3 November â Amartya Sen, economist, philosopher and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.
- 8 December â Narenda Kumar, mountaineer and soldier (died 2020).
Deaths
- 2 April â Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer and ruler of Nawanagar. (b. 1872)
- 27 September â Kamini Roy, poet and social worker (b. 1864)[8]
