1941 in India

← 1940 1939 1938 1941 in India → 1942 1943 1944
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Events in the year 1941 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George VI
• Viceroy of India - Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

Events

• 28 January - A customs union is established with French India.^[1]

Births

• 1 January - Govardhan Asrani, actor.
• 10 April - Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
• 5 July - Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993–2003
• 15 July - Nikhil Kumar, politician.
• 17 July - Bharathiraja, filmmaker.
• 31 July - Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician and Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 2004).
• 4 September - Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

Full date unknown

• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
• T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.

Deaths

• 28 March - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (born 1877).
• 7 August - Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (born 1861).
• 9 November - Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Philosophy (born 1872).

Full date unknown

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born 1862).

References

1. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263