1932 in India

Events in the year 1932 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V

Events

• 3 January - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
• 16 May - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
• 20 September - Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison.
• 8 October - Indian Air Force established.
• 15 October - J. R. D. Tata flew from Karachi to Bombay via Ahmedabad landing on a grass strip at Juhu paving the way for civil aviation in India.^[1]

Births

• 6 January - Kamleshwar, writer, screenwriter, critic and essayist (d.2007).
• 7 January - Obaid Siddiqui, neurogeneticist.
• 9 February - Dr. Mohamad Abdul Tayyab, agricultural scientist (d.2007).
• 13 February - V. Balakrishnan, writer and translator (d.2004).
• 13 February - Leela Devi, writer, translator, and teacher (d.1998).
• 12 June - Padmini, actress and dancer (d.2006).
• 22 June - Amrish Puri, actor (d.2005).
• 1 August - Meena Kumari, actress (d.1972).
• 20 August - Chandrakant Bakshi, author (d.2006).
• 29 September - Mehmood, actor, director and producer (d.2004).
• 13 October - Anup Kumar, actor (d.1997).
• 5 December - Nadira, actress (d.2006).
• 21 December - U. R. Ananthamurthy, writer and critic.

Full date unknown

• Ashalata, actress.
• Hamid Dalwai, social reformer and writer (d.1977).

References