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.
• 25 November – Founding of the University of Lucknow.

Law

• 8 July – The House of Commons adopts the findings of the Hunter report.
• Provincial Insolvency Act
• Passport 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.
• 16 February – I. S. Johar, actor, writer, producer and director.
• 7 April – Ravi Shankar, sitar player and composer.
• 14 June – Acharya Shri Mahapragya 10th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect

July to December

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

Full date unknown

• Bharat Bhushan, actor.

Deaths

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