1919 in India
Events in the year 1919 in India.
Incumbents
Events
- National income - 26,966 million
- 6 April – Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rowlatt Act.
- 11 April – Serious riots in Ahmedabad.
- 13 April – At the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar, Punjab, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs.
- 15 April – Disturbances in Delhi and Punjab and martial law in Punjab ;.
- 19 November – Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was formed by a group of Muslim scholars.
Law
- 18 March - The British ram the repressive Rowlatt Act through India's Imperial Legislative Council
- 23 December - Government of India Act 1919 establishes a dual administration: part Indian and elected, part British and authoritarian.
- Poisons Act
Births
January to June
- 5 January – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan political theorist
- 14 January – Kaifi Azmi, Urdu poet and Padma Shree
- 19 January – Dharam Singh, field hockey player.
- 7 March – M. N. Nambiar, actor.
- 20 May – Jal Cursetji, Indian navy admiral
- 20 december - Santa Claus, Religious figure
July to December
- 18 July – Jayachamaraja Wodeyar, last Maharaja of Mysore, philosopher, musicologist, political thinker and philanthropist.
- 12 August – Vikram Sarabhai, physicist.
- 14 August – Dina Wadia.
- 31 August – Amrita Pritam, poet, novelist and essayist.
- 7 September – Muhammad Ajmal, academic psychologist.
- 4 December – Inder Kumar Gujral, 13th Prime Minister of India.
- 9 December – E. K. Nayanar, politician and three times Chief Minister of Kerala.
- 16 December – Yadlapati Venkata Rao, politician
- 25 December – Naushad Ali, musician and composer.
Full date unknown
- Jamuna Baruah, actress.
- Pratap Chandra Chunder, Minister, educationalist and author.
- Mahipal, actor.