1924 in India

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Events in the year 1924 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V

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.
• Reorganization of the Muslim League by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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).
• 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).