1933 in India explained

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.^[1]
• Pakistan Declaration published
• Indian National Congress meeting at Calcutta prevented by the police.^[2]
• 1 May – Gandhi released.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• Gandhi transfers charge of Congress to Nehru.^[5]
• 26 November - A 20 year old landlord from Pakur named Amarendra Chandra Pandey was killed using a Biological agent.^[6]

Law

• Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act

Births

• 8 January – Supriya Devi, Bengali actress (born in Burma, now Myanmar) (died 2018).^[7]
• 14 February – Madhubala, actress (died 1969).
• 18 February – Nimmi, actress. (died 2020).
• 4 April – Balan K. Nair, actor (died 2000).
• 20 July – Roddam Narasimha, scientist (died 2020).
• 1 August – Meena Kumari, actress and poet (died 1972).
• 31 August – Dhiru Parikh, poet, writer and critic (died 2021).
• 5 September – Laxminarayan Ramdas, admiral (died 2024).
• 27 September – Nagesh, comedian actor (died 2009).
• 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

• April 2 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer and ruler of Nawanagar. (b. 1872)

Notes and References

1. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
2. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
3. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
4. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
5. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
6. News: 2021-12-24. The Indian 'germ murder' that gripped the world. en-GB. BBC News. 2022-01-12.
7. Web site: আমি সেই মেয়ে : সুপ্রিয়া দেবী. Prothom Alo. 12 March 2015. 18 February 2021. 9 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171209080111/http://www.prothom-alo.com/entertainment/article/474436/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80. dead.