1938 in India
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Events in the year 1938 in India. Indian independence â Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India â George VI
- Viceroy of India â Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
Events
- National income - â¹29,799 million
- Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.[1]
Law
- December â Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.[2]
- Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act
- Insurance Act
- Manoeuvres, Field Firing and Artillery Practice Act
- Cutchi Memons Act
Births
- 5 January â Sukumar Barua, Bangladeshi poet (died 2026)
- 7 January â B. Saroja Devi, actress (died 2025)
- 13 January
- Shivkumar Sharma, musician. (died 2022)
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet (died 2019)
- 2 February â Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, Islamic scholar (died 2024)
- 10 March â Ijaz Butt, Pakistani cricketer (died 2023)
- 18 March â Shashi Kapoor, Bollywood actor. (died 2017)
- 31 March â Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi (died 2019)
- 9 April â Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani diplomat (died 2023)
- 23 April â S. Janaki, playback singer.
- 5 May â Chandrama Santha, politician (died 2021)
- 19 May â Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)
- 10 June â Rahul Bajaj, businessman (died 2022)
- 12 June â Yesudasan, political cartoonist (died 2021)
- 1 July
- Hariprasad Chaurasia, classical flutist
- Durai Murugan, lawyer and politician
- 9 July â Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died 1985).
- 13 July â Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
- 15 July â Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru (died 2024)
- 18 July â R. K. Krishna Kumar, business executive (died 2023).
- 19 July
- Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004)
- Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist (died 2025)
- 25 July â Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.[3] (died 2024)
- 8 September â Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007)
- 18 September â Amalendu Chakrabarti, Indian political cartoonist(died 2023)
- 24 September â Piloo Reporter, cricket umpire (died 2023)
- 2 October â Sajid Mir, Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar (died 2025)
- 13 October â Mahboob Shah, Pakistani cricket player and umpire
- 17 November â Shamim Hanafi, Urdu scholar (died 2021)
- 21 November â Helen, actress and dancer
- 11 December â T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died 2018)
Full date unknown
- Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
- Manohar Singh, theatre director and actor. (died 2002)
Deaths
- 16 January â Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (born 1876).
- 21 April - Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Poet, politician (born 1877 )
- 14 November â Mahatma Hansraj, educationist, Arya Samaj leader (born 1864)
