1941 in India

Events in the year 1941 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George VI
• Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
• President of the Indian National Congress - Abul Kalam Azad

Events

• National income - 44,085 million
• June 21 - Rajendra Prasad lays the foundation stone of Scindia Shipyard at Visakhapatnam.

Law

• The Delhi Restriction of Uses of Land Act, 1941
• The Berar Laws Act, 1941

Births

• 6 January – Serajul Alam Khan, Bangladeshi politician and philosopher (died 2023)
• 25 March – Udyavara Madhava Acharya, writer, poet and actor (died 2020)
• 10 April – Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
• 17 April – Bindu, actress.
• 12 May – Hafez Ahmadullah, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and cleric (died 2025)
• 21 June – Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore
• 2 July – Ashalata Wabgaonkar, actress (died 2020).
• 5 July – Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993–2003
• 15 July – Nikhil Kumar, politician.
• 17 July – Bharathiraja, filmmaker.
• 31 July – Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician and Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 2004).
• 4 September – Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

Full date unknown

• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
• T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.
• Yasmeen Lari, Architect

Deaths

• 28 March – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (born 1877).
• 18 June - Ayyankali, social reformer from Kerala famous for Villu vandi Samaram of 1893 (born 1863).
• 7 August – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (born 1861).
• 9 November – Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy (born 1872).

Full date unknown

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born 1862).

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