1929 in India
Events in the year 1929 in India.
Incumbents
Events
- National income - 35,663 million
- 6 January – Mother Teresa arrives in Kolkata to work amongst poor and sick
- 29 December – All India Congress in Lahore demands independence
- * The radical nationalists, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, push through the National Congress a resolution calling for virtual independence within a year.
- Bombay Flying Club is founded by JRD Tata.
- 8 April - Batukeshwar Dutt and Bhagat Singh throw bombs in the Assembly chamber, New Delhi.
Law
- Passage of the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929.
Births
- 1 January – Latif-ur Rehman, hockey player.
- 8 January – Saeed Jaffrey, actor.
- 2 February – Dalit Bandhu N. K. Jose, historian.
- 7 February – Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician.
- 28 February – Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Indian-born American chemist and inventor.
- 20 March – Muhammad Hamza, Pakistani politician,.
- 24 March – Ataullah Mengal, Pakistani politician,.
- 29 March – Utpal Dutt, actor, director and writer.
- 24 April – Dr. Rajkumar, actor and singer.
- 1 May – S. G. Neginhal, conservationist,.
- 29 May – Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist
- 1 June – Nargis, actress.
- 4 June – Kapil Narayan Tiwari, activist and politician.
- 15 June – Suraiya, actress and singer.
- 14 July – V. C. Kulandaiswamy, academic and author
- 20 July – Hosbet Suresh, judge
- 25 July – Somnath Chatterjee, politician and Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha.
- 4 August – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.
- 28 August – Purushottama Lal, poet, essayist, translator, professor and publisher.
- 6 September – Yash Johar, film producer.
- 28 September – Lata Mangeshkar, "Bharatratna", internationally acclaimed playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer.
- 29 September – Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Pakistani separatist leader
- 30 September – Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Pakistani judge and politician
- 29 October – Rabey Hasani Nadwi, Sunni Muslim scholar
- 31 October – Muktha Srinivasan, film director and producer
- 2 November – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, politician and jurist, 9th President of Pakistan
- 20 November – Milkha Singh, Olympic sprinter
- 25 December – Swami Smaranananda, monk
Full date unknown
- Vimala Rangachar, educationist
Deaths
- 20 February - Rattanbai Jinnah, wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan