1922 in India

Events in the year 1922 in India.

Incumbents

National income - 25,278 millionThe Light of the East, a monthly review is founded at Calcutta.
February – The Chauri Chaura incident occurs, over time work where a mob of about 3000 kills some policemen. With the Non-cooperation movement taking an increasingly violent form, this is the last straw to Gandhi's sense of discipline. He immediately calls for suspension of the NCM, leaving many Congress activists disappointed.
11 March – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
13 March – Prince of Wales Edward VIII inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India marking a capitulation of the British Empire to growing pressure for Indianization of the Officer Cadre of the British Indian Army.
18 March – Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only two years.
Mohenjadaro was discovered
December, 1922 - Gaya Session of Indian National Congress

9 January – Har Gobind Khorana, molecular biologist, shared Nobel Prize in 1968.
27 January – Ajit Khan, actor.
4 February – Bhimsen Joshi, Hindustani classical Singer.
22 February - S. H. Raza, modern Indian painter.
4 March – Dina Pathak, actress and activist.
2 July – Mohammed Fazal, former Governor of Maharashtra.
29 July – Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, writer
30 September – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, film director.
1 October – Allu Rama Lingaiah, actor.
20 October – Syed Masood Hassan Shihab Dehlvi, Writer and Poet
11 December – Dilip Kumar, actor and politician.