1920 in India

← 1919 1918 1917 1920 in India → 1921 1922 1923
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1920 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Events

• National income – ₹ 30,428 million
• 1 September – Non-cooperation movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi.
• 8 September – The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind issued a religious edict, Fatwa Tark-e-Mawālat on the boycott of British goods.
• 14 September – Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh in 1875, becomes Aligarh Muslim University.
• October – Formation of All India Trade Union Congress. ^[1]
• 25 November – Founding of the University of Lucknow. ^[2]

Law

• 8 July – The House of Commons adopts the findings of the Hunter report. ^[3]
• Provincial Insolvency Act
• Passport (Entry into India) Act
• Identification of Prisoners Act
• Aligarh Muslim University Act
• Charitable and Religious Trusts Act
• Indian Red Cross Society Act

Births

January to June

• 12 February – Pran, actor (died 2013).
• 16 February – I. S. Johar, actor, writer, producer and director (died 1984).
• 7 April – Ravi Shankar, sitar player and composer (died 2012).
• 14 June – Acharya Shri Mahapragya 10th Acharya of Jain Terapanth Sect (died 2010)

July to December

• 14 July – Shankarrao Chavan, politician and twice Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 2004).
• 1 August – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (died 1969).
• 19 October – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer, who founded the Swadhyay Movement (died 2003).
• 27 October – K. R. Narayanan, politician and 10th President of India (died 2005).
• 17 November – Gemini Ganesan, actor (died 2005).

Full date unknown

• Bharat Bhushan, actor (died 1992).

Deaths

• 26 April – Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician (born 1887).
• 1 August – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, nationalist, social reformer and independence fighter (born 1856).
• 30 November – Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, freedom fighter, co-founder of the Jamia Millia Islamia and founder of the Silk Letter Movement (born 1851)

References

1. Kooiman, Dick (1980). "Bombay Communists and the 1924 Textile Strike". Economic and Political Weekly. 15 (29): 1223–1236. ISSN   0012-9976.
2. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 315
3. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 262