See also: 1920 in India, other events of 1921, 1922 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 January to June 2.2 July to December 2.3 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 23 December - Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
• The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation. Riots spread all over Bombay

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• 8 March - Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (d.1980).
• 14 April - Subodh Mukherjee, filmmaker (d.2005).
• 2 May - Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (d.1992).
• 21 May - Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (d.1990).
• 28 June - P. V. Narasimha Rao, politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (d.2004).

[edit] July to December

• 1 August - Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (d.1966).
• 24 September - Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry, actor (d.2007).
• 7 December - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, leader of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.

[edit] Full date unknown

• B. B. Lal, archaeologist.

[edit] Deaths

• 11 September - Subramanya Bharathi, poet, independence fighter and reformer (b.1882).
• Ahmed Rida Khan, Sunni Muslim scholar and founder of Barelwi school of thought (b.1856).