1938_in_India
1938 in India
India-related events during the year of 1938
Events in the year 1938 in India. Indian independence – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.
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- Emperor of India – George VI
- Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
- National income - ₹29,799 million
- Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.[1]
- December – 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
- 7 January – B. Saroja Devi, actress
- 13 January
- Shivkumar Sharma, musician. (died 2022)
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet (died 2019)
- 10 March – Ijaz Butt, Pakistani cricketer (died 2023)
- 18 March – Shashi Kapoor, Bollywood actor. (died 2017)
- 31 March – Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi (died 2019)
- 9 April – Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani diplomat (died 2023)
- 23 April – S. Janaki, playback singer.
- 5 May – Chandrama Santha, politician (died 2021)
- 19 May – Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)
- 10 June – Rahul Bajaj, businessman (died 2022)
- 12 June – Yesudasan, political cartoonist (died 2021)
- 1 July
- Hariprasad Chaurasia, classical flutist
- Durai Murugan, lawyer and politician
- 9 July – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died 1985).
- 13 July – Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
- 15 July – Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru
- 18 July – R. K. Krishna Kumar, business executive (died 2023).
- 19 July
- Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004)
- Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist
- 25 July – Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.[3] (died 2024)
- 8 September – Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007)
- 24 September – Piloo Reporter, cricket umpire (died 2023)
- 17 November – Shamim Hanafi, Urdu scholar (died 2021)
- 11 December – T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died 2018)
Full date unknown
- Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
- Manohar Singh, theatre director and actor. (died 2002)
- 16 January – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (born 1876).
- 14 November – Mahatma Hansraj, educationist, Arya Samaj leader (born 1864)
