Events in the year 1933 in India.
Incumbents Emperor of India – George V Viceroy of India – The Earl of Willingdon
Events National income – 19,502 million January – Extensive prosecutions of Communists for treason.Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263 Pakistan Declaration published Indian National Congress meeting at Calcutta prevented by the police.Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263 1 May – Gandhi released.Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263 8 May – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes. 1 August – Rearrest of Gandhi; released on 24 August.Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263 Gandhi transfers charge of Congress to Nehru.Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263 26 November – A 20 year old landlord from Pakur named Amarendra Chandra Pandey was killed using a Biological agent.
Law Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act
Births 8 January – Supriya Devi, Bengali actress (born in Burma, now Myanmar) (died 2018). 14 February – Madhubala, actress (died 1969). 18 February – Nimmi, actress. (died 2020). 4 April – Balan K. Nair, actor (died 2000). 28 June – V. Sasisekharan, molecular biologist. 15 July – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, writer and film director (died 2024). 20 July – Roddam Narasimha, scientist (died 2020). 1 August – Meena Kumari, actress and poet (died 1972). 13 August – Madhur Jaffrey, actress and writer. 31 August – Dhiru Parikh, poet, writer and critic (died 2021). 5 September – Laxminarayan Ramdas, admiral (died 2024). 27 September – Nagesh, comedian actor (died 2009). 16 October -- Vinodini Champaklal Shah, educator. 3 November – Amartya Sen, economist, philosopher and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. 8 December – Narenda Kumar, mountaineer and soldier (died 2020).
Deaths 2 April – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer and ruler of Nawanagar. (b. 1872) 27 September – Kamini Roy, poet and social worker (b. 1864)
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