Events in the year 1913 in India.
Incumbents Emperor of India – George V Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
Events National income - 13,473 million 3 May- Raja Harischandra, First full-length movie of India released. Beginning of Indian Film Industry. 6 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself.
Ghadar party foundation
Law Official Trustees Act White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act
Births 5 March – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music (died July y 25, 2009). 1 May – Balraj Sahni, Indian actor (died 13 April 1973) 29 march Bhawani Prasad Mishra – a great poet of Hindi 1 July PP Kumaramangalam, Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army (08 Jun 1966 to 07 Jun 1969) (died 2000). 18 July – N. Krishnaswami Reddy, lawyer (died 2002). 27 July – Kalpana Datta, Communist freedom fighter (died 1995). 1 August – Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002). 13 August – Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001). 20 October – Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998). 3 November – Antony Mitradas, film director (died 2017).
Deaths Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (born 1861).
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