1920 in India explained

Events in the year 1920 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Events

• National income – 30,428 million
• 1 September – Non-cooperation movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi.
• 8 September – The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind issued a religious edict, Fatwa Tark-e-Mawālat on the boycott of British goods.
• 14 September – Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh in 1875, becomes Aligarh Muslim University.
• October – Formation of All India Trade Union Congress.^[1]
• 25 November – Founding of the University of Lucknow.^[2]

Law

• 8 July – The House of Commons adopts the findings of the Hunter report.^[3]
• Provincial Insolvency Act
• Passport (Entry into India) Act
• Identification of Prisoners Act
• Aligarh Muslim University Act
• Charitable and Religious Trusts Act
• Indian Red Cross Society Act

Births

January to June

• 12 February – Pran, actor (died 2013).
• 16 February – I. S. Johar, actor, writer, producer and director (died 1984).
• 7 April – Ravi Shankar, sitar player and composer (died 2012).
• 14 June – Acharya Shri Mahapragya 10th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect (died 2010)

July to December

• 14 July – Shankarrao Chavan, politician and twice Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 2004).
• 1 August – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (died 1969).
• 19 October – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer, who founded the Swadhyay Movement (died 2003).
• 27 October – K. R. Narayanan, politician and 10th President of India (died 2005).
• 17 November – Gemini Ganesan, actor (died 2005).

Full date unknown

• Bharat Bhushan, actor (died 1992).

Deaths

• 26 April – Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician (born 1887).
• 1 August – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, nationalist, social reformer and independence fighter (born 1856).
• 30 November – Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, freedom fighter, co-founder of the Jamia Millia Islamia and founder of the Silk Letter Movement (born 1851)

Notes and References

1. Kooiman . Dick . 1980 . Bombay Communists and the 1924 Textile Strike . Economic and Political Weekly . 15 . 29 . 1223–1236 . 0012-9976.
2. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 315
3. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 262