1936 in India
Events in the year 1936 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India – George V, Edward VIII, George VI
- Viceroy of India – The Earl of Willingdon
- Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
Events
- National income – 28,912 million
- August 15 - India won the third consecutive hockey gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin).
- 15–18 October – Religious riots in Bombay.
- 12 November - Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore.
- 27 December - Indian National Congress conducts its first rural session in Faizpur, Jalgaon district.
- 28 December – Indian National Congress rejected new constitution.
Law
- 3 March – Legislative Assembly passed a motion to terminate the Ottawa trade agreement.
- Payment of Wages Act
- Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act
Births
- 8 January – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, diplomat and politician.
- 12 January – Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, politician and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir..
- 24 January – Gulam Noon, Baron Noon, businessman.
- 1 April
- * Tarun Gogoi, former Chief Minister of Assam
- * Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist born in Bhopal
- 29 April – Zubin Mehta, conductor
- 4 June – Nutan, actress
- 14 June – M. S. Gill, politician and bureaucrat
- July 1
- * Mihir Rakshit, economist
- * E. Ponnuswamy, politician
- 15 July – Prabhash Joshi, writer, editor and political analyst.
- 21 July – Rafi Usmani, Pakistani Muslim scholar.
- 3 August – Bannanje Govindacharya, Sanskrit scholar.
- 9 August – Satish Kumar, peace activist and editor.
- 13 August – Vyjayanthimala, award-winning actress and classical dancer.
- 8 September – Indu Jain, media executive and philanthropist
- 13 November – Suhail Zaheer Lari, Historian, author.
- 25 December – Ismail Merchant, film producer.
Full date unknown
- Anand, writer.
- Narayanan Vaghul, banker and philanthropist
Deaths
- 28 February – Kamala Nehru, activist and spouse of Jawaharlal Nehru.
- 13 August – Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner.
- 19 September – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian classical musician.
- 8 October – Premchand, writer in Hindi-Urdu literature and freedom fighter.