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See also: 1923 in India, other events of 1924, 1925 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 12 January - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested soon after.
• 4 February - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
• 9 September - 11 September - 1924 Kohat riots.
• 25 October - British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next two and half years.
• Lahore session of Muslim League presided by Mohammad Ali Jinnah passes resolution on a demand for a federation with greater provincial autonomy. This is the first time after the Lucknow pact1916 that the Muslim League and Congress hold separate sessions.

[edit] Births

• 27 January - Sabu Dastagir, actor (d.1963).
• 21 February - Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer.
• 2 March - Gulshan Rai, film producer and distributor (d.2004).
• 6 June - S. R. Bommai, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka (d.2007).
• 24 December - Narayan Desai, pacifist and writer.
• 24 December - Nissim Ezekiel, poet, playwright and art critic (d.2004).
• 24 December - Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (d.1980).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Kamala Markandaya, novelist and journalist (d.2004).
• P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar, agricultural scientist (d.1996).

[edit] Deaths

• Chattampi Swamikal, Hindu sage and social reformer (b.1853).