1924 in India

← 1923 1922 1921 1924 in India → 1925 1926 1927
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Events in the year 1924 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India - The Earl of Reading

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.
• February - Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
• 9 September - 11 September - 1924 Kohat riots.
• 4 December - The Gateway of India in Bombay, built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary in December 1911, is opened by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading.
• Reorganization of the Muslim League by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• Great Flood at Kerala - Great flood of 99
• Commencement of Vaikam Satyagraham (the first ever struggle against apartheid in the World) designed by T K Madhavan and Sree Narayana Guru. In Kerala, South India.

Births

• 27 January - Sabu Dastagir, actor (died 1963).
• 21 February - Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer.
• 2 March - Gulshan Rai, film producer and distributor (died 2004).
• 6 June - S. R. Bommai, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka (died 2007).
• 14 December - Raj Kapoor, actor and director (died 1988).
• 24 December - Narayan Desai, pacifist and writer.
• 24 December - Nissim Ezekiel, poet, playwright and art critic (died 2004).
• 24 December - Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (died 1980).
• Kamala Markandaya, novelist and journalist (died 2004).
• P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar, agricultural scientist (died 1996).

Deaths

• Chattampi Swamikal, Hindu sage and social reformer (born 1853).
• Kumaran Asan, the GREATEST EVER poet of Malayalam - the language of Kerala - attained eternity in a boat accident at Pallana river, near Thrikkunnappuzha, Harippad, in Kerala, Southern India.