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{{Year in India|1924}}<br />
Events in the year '''1924 in India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[Emperor of India]] – [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]<br />
* Viceroy of India – [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|The Earl of Reading]]<br />
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==Events==<br />
*12 January – [[Gopinath Saha]] shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart – he is arrested soon after.<br />
*February – [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is released prematurely on medical grounds.<br />
*9 September – 11 September – [[1924 Kohat riots]].<br />
*4 December – The [[Gateway of India]] in [[Bombay]], built to commemorate the visit of [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] and [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] in December 1911, is opened by the [[Viceroy]], the [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|Earl of Reading]].<br />
*Reorganization of the [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] by [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]].<br />
*Great Flood at Kerala – [[Great flood of 99]]<br />
* Commencement of Vaikam Satyagraham (the first ever struggle against apartheid in the World) designed by T K Madhavan and Sree Narayana Guru. In Kerala, South India.<br />
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==Births==<br />
*1 January – [[Kamala Markandaya]], novelist and journalist (died [[2004 in India|2004]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=Dr. Arjun R. Masal|title=Kamala Markandaya : A Literary Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6V2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-359-13447-2|pages=11}}</ref><br />
*4 January – [[Sebastian Kappen]], priest and theologian (died [[1993 in India|1993]])<br />
*27 January – [[Sabu Dastagir]], actor (died [[1963 in India|1963]]).<br />
*21 February – [[Krishna Prakash Bahadur]], writer (died [[1989 in India|1989]]).<br />
*2 March – [[Gulshan Rai]], film producer and distributor (died [[2004 in India|2004]]).<br />
*19 March – [[F. C. Kohli]], industrialist (died [[2020 in India|2020]])<br />
*3 June - [[ M. Karunanidhi]], former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, poet, orator (died 07 August 2018 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India).<br />
*6 June – [[S. R. Bommai]], politician and [[Chief Ministers of Karnataka|Chief Minister of Karnataka]] (died [[2007 in India|2007]]).<br />
*1 July – [[Jan Azam]], Pakistani sports shooter<br />
*3 July – [[Arjun Naidu]], first-class cricketer (died [[2000 in India|2000]])<br />
*6 July – [[Mahim Bora]], Indian writer and educationist (died [[2016 in India|2016]])<br />
*22 August – [[Harishankar Parsai]], Hindi satirist and humorist (died [[1995 in India|1995]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hariśaṅkara Parasāī|title=Inspector Matadeen on the Moon: Selected Satires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqNlAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Manas|isbn=978-81-85938-26-4|page=1}}</ref><br />
*18 September – [[M. R. Schunker]], naval officer (died [[2021 in India|2021]])<br />
*13 October – [[Moturu Udayam]], women's activist (died [[2002 in India|2002]])<br />
*29 November – [[Parassala B. Ponnammal]], Carnatic musician (died [[2021 in India|2021]])<br />
*14 December – [[Raj Kapoor]], actor and director (died [[1988 in India|1988]]).<br />
*24 December – [[Narayan Desai]], pacifist and writer. (died [[2015]])<br />
*25 December - [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], Poet, reporter, Former PM of India (died [[2018]])<br />
*24 December – [[Nissim Ezekiel]], poet, playwright and art critic (died [[2004 in India|2004]]).<br />
*24 December – [[Mohammed Rafi]], [[playback singer]] (died [[1980 in India|1980]]).<br />
*''unknown date''<br />
**[[P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar]], agricultural scientist (died [[1996 in India|1996]]).<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
*[[Chattampi Swamikal]], [[Hindu]] sage and social reformer (born [[1853 in India|1853]]).<br />
*Kumaran Asan, a poet of Malayalam – the language of Kerala – attained eternity in a boat accident at Pallana river, near Thrikkunnappuzha, Harippad, in Kerala, Southern India.<br />
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