1913 in India
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Events in the year 1913 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India – George V
- Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
Events
3 May- Raja Harischandra, First full-length movie of India released. Beginning of Indian Film Industry.
- 6 November - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself.
Births
- 5 March - Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music (died July y 25, 2009).
- 1 May– Balraj Sahni, Indian actor (died 13 April 1973)
- Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002).
- Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998).
- Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001).
- 29 march Bhawani Prasad Mishra - a great poet of Hindi
- 1 July PP Kumaramangalam, Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army (08 Jun 1966 to 07 Jun 1969)
- 27 July Kalpana Dutta Joshi, Freedom Fighter, Communist Movement in India (died 08 Feb 1995 in Calcutta, India).
Deaths
- Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (born 1861).
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