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{{Year in India|1938}}<br />
Events in the year '''1938 in India'''.<br />
[[Indian independence movement|Indian independence]] – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[Emperor of India]] – [[George VI]]<br />
* Viceroy of India – [[Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow]]<br />
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== Events ==<br />
*Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.<ref>''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263</ref><br />
*December – Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.<ref>''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263</ref><br />
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==Births==<br />
*7 January – [[B. Saroja Devi]], actress.<br />
*13 January<br />
**[[Shivkumar Sharma]], musician<br />
**[[Nabaneeta Dev Sen]], novelist, children's author and poet. (died [[2019 in India|2019]])<br />
*18 March – [[Shashi Kapoor]], [[Bollywood]] actor (died 2017)<br />
*31 March – [[Sheila Dikshit]], politician and [[Chief Minister]] of [[Delhi]]. (died 2019)<br />
*19 May – [[Girish Karnad]], writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)<br />
*12 June – [[Yesudasan]], political cartoonist (died 2021)<br />
*1 July – [[Durai Murugan]], lawyer and politician<br />
*9 July – [[Sanjeev Kumar (actor)|Sanjeev Kumar]], actor (died [[1985 in India|1985]]).<br />
*13 July – [[Thomas Savundaranayagam]], Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna<br />
*15 July – [[Pilot Baba]], Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru<br />
*19 July – [[Dom Moraes]], poet, writer and columnist (died [[2004 in India|2004]]).<br />
*19 July – [[Jayant Narlikar]], [[astrophysics|astrophysicist]].<br />
*25 July – [[Sudhir Kakar]], psychoanalyst and writer.<ref>"A book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections" Sudhir Kakar, Viking Press</ref><br />
*8 September – [[Poornachandra Tejaswi]], writer and novelist (died [[2007 in India|2007]]).<br />
*17 November – [[Shamim Hanafi]], Urdu scholar (died [[2021 in India|2021]])<br />
*11 December – [[T. S. R. Subramanian]], politician (died [[2018 in India|2018]])<br />
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*[[Shashi Deshpande]], novelist.<br />
*[[Manohar Singh]], theatre director and actor. (died 2002)<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
*16 January – [[Sharat Chandra Chatterji]], novelist (born [[1876 in India|1876]]).<br />
*14 November – [[Mahatma Hansraj]], educationist, [[Arya Samaj]] leader (born [[1864 in India|1864]])<br />
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