1922 in India
Events in the year 1922 in India.
Incumbents
Events
- 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
Births
- 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.
Full date unknown
- Chandrashekhar, actor.
- O. Madhavan, director and actor.
Deaths
- 21 March – C. V. Raman Pillai, novelist and playwright