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India-related events during the year of 1938
Events in the year 1938 in India.
Indian independence – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.
- National income - ₹29,799 million
- Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.
[1]
- December – Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.
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- Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act
- Insurance Act
- Manoeuvres, Field Firing and Artillery Practice Act
- Cutchi Memons Act
- 7 January –
B. Saroja Devi, actress
- 13 January
- 10 March –
Ijaz Butt, Pakistani cricketer (died
2023)
- 18 March –
Shashi Kapoor,
Bollywood actor. (died
2017)
- 31 March –
Sheila Dikshit, politician and
Chief Minister of
Delhi (died
2019)
- 9 April –
Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani diplomat (died
2023)
- 23 April –
S. Janaki, playback singer.
- 5 May –
Chandrama Santha, politician (died
2021)
- 19 May –
Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died
2019)
- 10 June –
Rahul Bajaj, businessman (died
2022)
- 12 June –
Yesudasan, political cartoonist (died
2021)
- 1 July
- 9 July –
Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died
1985).
- 13 July –
Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
- 15 July –
Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru
- 18 July –
R. K. Krishna Kumar, business executive (died
2023).
- 19 July
- 25 July –
Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.
[3] (died
2024)
- 8 September –
Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died
2007)
- 24 September –
Piloo Reporter, cricket umpire (died
2023)
- 17 November –
Shamim Hanafi, Urdu scholar (died
2021)
- 11 December –
T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died
2018)
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^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
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^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
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^ "A book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections" Sudhir Kakar, Viking Press