1933 in India

Events in the year 1933 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Willingdon

Events

• National income – 19,502 million
• January – Extensive prosecutions of Communists for treason.
• Pakistan Declaration published
• Indian National Congress meeting at Calcutta prevented by the police.
• 1 May – Gandhi released.
• 8 May – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.
• 1 August – Rearrest of Gandhi; released on 24 August.
• Gandhi transfers charge of Congress to Nehru.
• 26 November – A 20 year old landlord from Pakur named Amarendra Chandra Pandey was killed using a Biological agent.

Law

• Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act

Births

• 8 January – Supriya Devi, Bengali actress (born in Burma, now Myanmar) (died 2018).
• 14 February – Madhubala, actress (died 1969).
• 18 February – Nimmi, actress. (died 2020).
• 4 April – Balan K. Nair, actor (died 2000).
• 28 June – V. Sasisekharan, molecular biologist.
• 15 July – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, writer and film director (died 2024).
• 20 July – Roddam Narasimha, scientist (died 2020).
• 1 August – Meena Kumari, actress and poet (died 1972).
• 13 August – Madhur Jaffrey, actress and writer.
• 31 August – Dhiru Parikh, poet, writer and critic (died 2021).
• 5 September – Laxminarayan Ramdas, admiral (died 2024).
• 27 September – Nagesh, comedian actor (died 2009).
• 16 October -- Vinodini Champaklal Shah, educator.
• 3 November – Amartya Sen, economist, philosopher and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.
• 8 December – Narenda Kumar, mountaineer and soldier (died 2020).

Deaths

• 2 April – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer and ruler of Nawanagar. (b. 1872)
• 27 September – Kamini Roy, poet and social worker (b. 1864)

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