1914 in India
Events in the year 1914 in India.
Incumbents
Events
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.
- In August India as the British colony sends troops to Europe to participate as the British fighting partner in World War I against Germany. This force was a part of the British Expeditionary Force sent to Belgium. In October they participated in the First Battle of Ypres. Soon more than 1.125 millions of Indians had volunteered to fight for Britain in the war.
- 23 May - 376 British Subjects (340 Sikhs, 12 Hindus and 24 Muslims) of Indian origin arrived at Burrard Inlet, Vancouver on May 23, 1914, from the Indian sub-continent on the ship Komagata Maru (Guru Nanak Jahaz), seeking to enter Canada. Due to the racist immigration policy of the Dominion of Canada, 352 of the passengers were denied entry and forced to depart on July 23, 1914.
Births
- 3 April - Sam Manekshaw, first Field Marshal of the Indian Army (d.2008).
- 22 April - Baldev Raj Chopra, film director and producer.
- 7 June - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (d.1987).
- 8 July - Jyoti Basu, communist politician, former Chief Minister of West Bengal.
- 14 September - G. P. Sippy, film producer and director (d.2007).
- 24 October - Lakshmi Sahgal, independence activist, politician and Minister.
- 26 December - Baba Amte, social activist (d.2008).
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