1936 in India
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Events in the year 1936 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India â George V (until 20 January), Edward VIII (until 11 December), George VI
- Viceroy of India â The Earl of Willingdon
- Viceroy of India â Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (from 18 April)
Events
- National income â â¹ 28,912 million
- August 15 - India won the third consecutive hockey gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin).
- 15â18 October â Religious riots in Bombay.[1]
- 12 November - Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore.
- 27 December - Indian National Congress conducts its first rural session in Faizpur, Jalgaon district.
- 28 December â Indian National Congress rejected new constitution.[2]
Law
- 3 March â Legislative Assembly passed a motion to terminate the Ottawa trade agreement.[3]
- Payment of Wages Act
- Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act
Births
- 8 January â Jyotindra Nath Dixit, diplomat and politician (died 2005).
- 12 January â Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, politician and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. (died 2016).
- 24 January â Gulam Noon, Baron Noon, businessman (died 2015).
- 1 April
- Tarun Gogoi, former Chief Minister of Assam (died 2020)
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist born in Bhopal (died 2021)
- 29 April â Zubin Mehta, conductor
- 4 June â Nutan, actress (died 1991)
- 14 June â M. S. Gill, politician and bureaucrat (died 2023)
- July 1
- Mihir Rakshit, economist
- E. Ponnuswamy, politician
- 15 July â Prabhash Joshi, writer, editor and political analyst. (died 2009)
- 21 July â Rafi Usmani, Pakistani Muslim scholar. (died 2022)
- 3 August â Bannanje Govindacharya, Sanskrit scholar. (died 2020)
- 9 August â Satish Kumar, peace activist and editor.
- 13 August â Vyjayanthimala, award-winning actress and classical dancer.
- 8 September â Indu Jain, media executive and philanthropist (died 2021)
- 13 November â Suhail Zaheer Lari, Historian, author. (died 2020)
- 25 December â Ismail Merchant, film producer (died 2005).
Full date unknown
- Anand, writer.
- Narayanan Vaghul, banker and philanthropist (died 2024)
Deaths
- 28 February â Kamala Nehru, activist and spouse of Jawaharlal Nehru (born 1899).
- 13 August â Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (born 1861).
- 19 September â Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian classical musician (born 1860).
- 8 October â Premchand, writer in Hindi-Urdu literature and freedom fighter (born 1880).
