1930 in India

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Events in the year 1930 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – The Lord Irwin

Events

Gandhi at Dandi, 6 April 1930, at the end of the Salt March

• National income - ₹31,435 million
• 26 January – The Indian National Congress declares January 26 as Independence Day, or the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
• 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. ^[1]
• 28 December – Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations

Law

• Publication of the report of the Simon Commission. ^[2]
• Sale of Goods Act
• Hindu Gains of Learning Act

Births

• 3 June – George Fernandes, politician (died 2019) ^[3]
• 6 June – Sunil Dutt, actor, producer, director and politician (died 2005).
• 7 June – Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (died 1992)
• 10 June – Satya Priya Mahathero, Bangladeshi Buddhist pundit, religious leader and social worker (died 2019)
• 26 June – Mehli Irani, cricketer (died 2021)
• 30 June – Nabeesa Ummal, politician (died 2023)
• 9 July – Kailasam Balachander, Producer, Director, Actor (died 2014).
• 11 July – Shafiqur Rahman Barq, politician
• 10 August – R. Nagaswamy, historian and archaeologist (died 2022).
• 5 November – Arjun Singh, politician and Minister (died 2011).
• 15 November – Geeta Bali, actress (died 1965).
• 18 November – Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, politician (died 2018) ^[4]
• 23 November – Geeta Dutt, playback singer (died 1972).
• 13 December – Jacob Thoomkuzhy, Syro-Malabar hierarch (died 2025).

Full date unknown

• Bahadoor, actor (died 2000).

Deaths

• 12 May Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal (born 1858)
• 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.

References

1. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
2. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
3. United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations (1976). Human Rights in India: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 118.
4. India. Parliament. Lok Sabha (2000). Who's who. Parliament Secretariat. p. 647.