1938 in India
Events in the year 1938 in India. Indian independence – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.
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Incumbents
- Emperor of India – George VI
- Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
Events
Births
- 7 January – B. Saroja Devi, actress.
- 13 January
- Shivkumar Sharma, musician
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet.
- 18 March – Shashi Kapoor, legendary actor in Bollywood
- 31 March – Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi.
- 19 May – Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director.
- 1 July – Durai Murugan, lawyer and politician
- 9 July – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died 1985).
- 13 July – Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
- 15 July – Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru
- 19 July – Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004).
- 19 July – Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist.
- 25 July – Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.[3]
- 8 September – Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007).
- 11 December – T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died 2018)
Full date unknown
- Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
- Manohar Singh, theatre director and actor.
Deaths
- 16 January – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (born 1876).
References
- Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
- Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
- "A book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections" Sudhir Kakar, Viking Press
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