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{{Year in India|1921}}<br />
[[File:Studio_portrait_of_young_woman_with_basket_and_broom,_India_(c._1921).jpg | thumb | upright | right | Young woman in India, 1921]]<br />
Events in the year '''1921 in India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[Emperor of India]] – [[George V]]<br />
* Viceroy of India – [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford]]<br />
* Viceroy of India – [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|The Earl of Reading]] (from 2 April)<br />
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==Events==<br />
* National income – {{INR}} 25,337 million<br />
* June – the Madras province declared in a judgement that women also have the right to vote<br />
* August - [[Malabar rebellion]] commenced.<br />
* November - The [[Prince of Wales]], later King [[Edward VIII]], arrives in India. Upon his arrival in [[Bombay]] there is widespread agitation. He was greeted with empty streets (The agitation was non violent).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Halley |first=Catherine |date=2022-02-02 |title=The Prince of Wales' 1921 Trip to India Was a Royal Disaster |url=https://daily.jstor.org/the-prince-of-wales-1921-trip-to-india-was-a-royal-disaster/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=JSTOR Daily |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
* 19 November - [[Prince of Wales riots]]<br />
* 23 December – [[Visva-Bharati University]] is inaugurated.<br />
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==Law==<br />
* 8 April – Permanent Advisory Council of Princes inaugurated; Council of State and Legislative Assembly inaugurated.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Everyman's Dictionary of Dates |last=Dent |first=J.M. |edition=6 |page=262}}</ref><br />
*Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act<br />
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==Births And Deaths==<br />
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===January to June===<br />
*9 January – [[Lister Sinclair]], Indian-Canadian broadcaster and playwright (died 2006)<br />
*21 January – [[Jaswant Singh Marwah]], journalist and author <br />
*24 February – [[Paulaseer]] (Paulaseer Lawrie Muthukrishna), Indian preacher (died 1989)<ref>Bergunder, Michael (2003). "From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar", in ''Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500'', edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low. [[Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing]]. p. 359.</ref><br />
*8 March – [[Sahir Ludhianvi]], [[Urdu language|Urdu]] poet and [[Hindi language|Hindi]] lyricist and songwriter (died 1980)<br />
*14 April – [[Subodh Mukherjee]], filmmaker (died 2005)<br />
*2 May – [[Satyajit Ray]], filmmaker (died 1992)<br />
*21 May – [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]], philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (died 1990)<br />
*2 May – [[B. B. Lal (archaeologist)|B. B. Lal]], archaeologist, Director-General [[Archaeological Survey of India]] (1968–1972) (died 2022)<br />
*28 June – [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of India]] (died 2004)<br />
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===July to December===<br />
*1 August – [[Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak]], poet, novelist and short story writer (died 1966)<br />
*24 September – [[Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry]], actor (died 2007)<br />
*7 December – [[Pramukh Swami Maharaj]], leader of [[BAPS]] [[Swaminarayan]] Sanstha<br />
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*11 September – [[Subramanya Bharathi]], poet, independence fighter and reformer (born [[1882 in India|1882]])<br />
*[[Ahmed Rida Khan]], [[Sunni]] Muslim scholar and founder of [[Barelwi]] [[school of thought]] (born [[1856 in India|1856]])<br />
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==References==<br />
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