1919 in India

Incumbents

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

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.