1930 in India

Events in the year 1930 in India.

Incumbents

National income - 31,435 million
26 January – The Indian National Congress declares January 26 as Independence Day, or the day for Poorna Swaraj.
28 February - Sir C V Raman Received Nobel Prize in Physics.
2 March – Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later.
12 March – Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt – more will join them during the Salt March that ends on 5 April.
6 April – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and taking salt.
18 April – Chittagong armoury raid also known as Chittagong uprising.
30 April – The Vedaranyam Salt satyagraha led by Rajaji and Sardar Vedarathinam Pillai culminates in South India
4–5 May – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again.
October – First Round Table Conference opens in London.
28 December – Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations

3 June – George Fernandes, politician
6 June – Sunil Dutt, actor, producer, director and politician.
7 June – Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster
10 June – Satya Priya Mahathero, Bangladeshi Buddhist pundit, religious leader and social worker
26 June – Mehli Irani, cricketer
30 June – Nabeesa Ummal, politician
9 July – Kailasam Balachander, Producer, Director, Actor.
11 July – Shafiqur Rahman Barq, politician
10 August – R. Nagaswamy, historian and archaeologist.
5 November – Arjun Singh, politician and Minister .
15 November – Geeta Bali, actress.
18 November – Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, politician
23 November – Geeta Dutt, playback singer.
13 December – Jacob Thoomkuzhy, Syro-Malabar hierarch.

12 May Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
16 September – Martial Paillot, French Roman Catholic missionary, history professor and parish priest
28 September – T K Madhavan, the architect of Vaikam Sayagraham and organizing secretary of SNDP Yogam.