1935 in India

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Events in the year 1935 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Willingdon

Events

• 31 May – The M_w  7.7 Quetta earthquake shook British India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 30,000–60,000.
• 2 August – Government of India Bill, 1935, became law; it provided for development of a popular constitution.^[1]

Births

• 8 January – Supriya Devi, Bengali actress (born in Burma, now Myanmar).^[2]
• 19 January – Soumitra Chatterjee, actor.
• 3 May – Sujatha Rangarajan, author, short story writer and playwright (died 2008).
• 7 June – Thomas Kailath, Indian-American engineer, author, and educator
• 18 July – Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.
• 1 August – Mohinder Pratap Chand, writer and poet.
• 23 September – Prem Chopra, actor.
• 24 November – Salim Khan, actor and scriptwriter.
• 8 December – Dharmendra, actor.
• 11 December – Pranab Mukherjee, politician and Minister.

Full date unknown

• Khalish Dehlavi, poet.

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