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{{Short description|India-related events during the year of 1912}}
{{Year in India|1912}}
Events in the year '''1912 in India'''.

==Incumbents==
* [[Emperor of India]] – [[George V]]
* Viceroy of India – [[Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst]]

==Events==
*On April 20, 1912, [[Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School]], a senior secondary boys' school was founded at [[Baranagar]], [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://belurmath.org/ramakrishna-mission-ashrama-baranagar-kolkata/ |title=Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar, Kolkata |access-date=13 June 2018}}</ref>
*On February 14, 1912, [[George V]] gave a speech in the British Parliament about his visit to the imperial colonies and expressed his trust to India people and government he saw during his visit to India in 1911.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1912/feb/14/his-majestys-most-gracious-speech |title=His Majesty King George V Speech |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5jWL4oN0I?url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1912/feb/14/his-majestys-most-gracious-speech |archive-date=2009-09-03 |access-date=2009-08-26 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*June – the Government of India Bill is passed by which the seat of government is moved from Calcutta to Delhi and changes in the constitution of Bengal and Assam are made<ref>{{Cite book |title=Everyman's Dictionary of Dates |last=Dent |first=J.M. |year=1971 |edition=6 |pages=262}}</ref>
*On December 18–21, 1912 the India National (Missionary) Conference convened in [[Calcutta]]. One of its principal conclusions recognized the need for good Christian literature in India. To decide this question the Conference established a committee which by 1914 proposed three series of books aimed at embracing Christian principles.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA155 |title=The History of British India: A Chronology |last=John F. Riddick |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-313-32280-8 |page=155}}</ref>
*On December 29, 1912 India obtained its first [[Anglican]] [[bishop]]. [[Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah]] (1874–1945), the son of an Indian clergyman, educated at [[Madras Christian College]], was consecrated as the First Indian Anglican bishop in [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta]]. There were present 11 British Anglican bishops, and the Governor of Bengal. In ten days Azariah took office in the newly created diocese of [[Dornakal]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cecLBU_oRTcC&pg=PA97 |title=In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V.S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India |last=Susan Billington Harper |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-8028-3874-2 |pages=97, 98}}</ref>
*In 1912 the construction of New Delhi was started. It was decided in 1911 when [[George V]] visited India during his travels to the British Empire colonies. The British Viceroy made Sir [[Edwin Lutyens]] responsible for the overall plan of Delhi and in 1912 he visited New Delhi to start his work. But the construction itself began only after [[World War I]]. Currently New Delhi is considered to be the crowning glory of the [[British Raj]].
*In 1912 India introduced registration of motor vehicles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/india/brindia18851918.html |title=British India 1885-1918 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5jWL5EL6p?url=http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/india/brindia18851918.html |archive-date=2009-09-03 |access-date=2009-08-26 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*Muslim Indian doctors and nurses were sent to join the [[Red Crescent]] organization established in 1912 to provide medical aid for Turkish troops in the [[Balkan war]] of 1912.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDw4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA182 |title=The Muslims of British India |last=Peter Hardy |date=1972 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-09783-3 |page=182}}</ref>
*[[Bihar]] and [[Orissa, India|Orissa]] provinces were carved out as a separate province from the [[British Raj]].

==Publications==
*In March, [[Har Dayal|Lala Har Dayal]] wrote an article for [[Modern Review (Kolkata)|Modern Review]] entitled "Marx: A Modern Rishi", which is believed to be the first Indian article on [[Marx]].<ref>{{Cite book |title='The Haj to Utopia': Anti-colonial Radicalism in the South Asian Diaspora, 1905--1930 |last=Maia Ramnath |publisher=University of California |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-549-65494-0 |page=108}}</ref>
*[[Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai]] wrote the biography of Karl Marx (1912) in [[Malayalam]], which was the first Marx biography in any Indian language.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/literacycriticmwesternifluence.htm |title=Literary Criticism: Western Influence |date=2012-03-03 |website=PRD, Kerala Government |access-date=2008-11-20}}{{dead link|date=August 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==Births==
*27 February – [[Lawrence Durrell]], novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer – (died [[1990 in France]]).
*3 July – [[Hans Raj Khanna]], Supreme Court Judge (died [[2008 in India|2008]]).
*10 September – [[B. D. Jatti]], former Indian president(acting)
*15 September – [[Russi Karanjia]], journalist and editor (died [[2008 in India|2008]]).
*25 October – [[Madurai Mani Iyer]], [[Carnatic music]] singer (died 1968).
* Abdul Hafeez or 'Hafeez Hoshiarpuri', [[Urdu]] poet born in [[Hoshiarpur]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]. (died 1973 in [[Karachi]], Pakistan).
* Shankara Ram. M.Varadarajan, [[Tamil people|Tamil]] novelist. (died 1974).

==Deaths==
* Hafeez Jaunpuri, real name is Haafiz Muhammad Ali, poet, born in 1865 in [[Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]].
* Rev. Thomas Walker, Indian chief spokesperson of [[Keswick Convention]].
* Theodore L. Pennell, a medical missionary in India, born in 1867.

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