1921 in India

Events in the year 1921 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V

Events

• 23 December – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
• The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation. Riots spread all over Bombay
• Non Cooperation Movement was launched
• Khilafat Movement was launched
• rise of gandhi and his civil disobedience movement
• non cooperative movement started

Births

January to June

• 8 March – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (d.1980).
• 14 April – Subodh Mukherjee, filmmaker (d.2005).
• 2 May – Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (d.1992).
• 21 May – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (d.1990).
• 28 June – P. V. Narasimha Rao, politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (d.2004).

July to December

• 1 August – Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (d.1966).
• 24 September – Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry, actor (d.2007).
• 7 December – Pramukh Swami Maharaj, leader of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.

Full date unknown

• B. B. Lal, archaeologist.

Deaths

• 11 September – Subramanya Bharathi, poet, independence fighter and reformer (b.1882).
• Ahmed Rida Khan, Sunni Muslim scholar and founder of Barelwi school of thought (b.1856).