1937 in India

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Events in the year 1947 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George VI
• Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

Events

• Provincial autonomy begins (1 April 1937) with Congress winning an absolute majority in many states, viz Madras, the United Provinces, Bihar, Central Provinces and Orissa. In Bombay, they were in position to form ministry with the support of independents. Non-congress coalition ministries were established in Bengal, Punjab, Sindh, NWFP (Khan Saheb defeating Muslim League) and Assam. Of them, only Punjab and Bengal were non-congress ministries. The All India Congress Committee renounced the proposition of non-acceptance of office. However, the Congress ministries did not accept office in the majority provinces, until they were assured by the Viceroy non-usage of his special powers in day-to-day administration.

Muslim league fared badly in these elections, failing to secure a majority even in Muslim majority states but it still demanded that the Congress should admit its representatives in all Provincial ministries. The league refused to regard Muslims in congress ministries as representatives of the Muslim community. Congress refused to accept same, hence widening their gap. Jinnah reiterated his 14 points and took the road to two nation theory.

• 20 February – Completion of election to legislative assemblies.[1]
• 1 April – Provincial autonomy began; Burma and Aden are separated from India.[1]
• 13 September – The new Viceroy's speech is boycotted by Congress.[1]

Establishment

• University of Kerala was set up.
• Bicameral legislature of Assam province came into existence in 1937.
• All India Football Federation was established

Births

January to June

• 2 January – Chandrashekhara Kambara, poet, playwright, folklorist and film director.
• 22 February – Sabitri Chatterjee, actress.
• 9 June – Ramchandra Gandhi, philosopher, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi (died 2007).
• 24 June – Anita Desai, novelist.

July to December

• 24 July – Manoj Kumar, actor and director.
• 6 November – Yashwant Sinha, politician and Minister.
• 8 November – Bharath Gopi, actor, director and producer (died 2008).
• 2 December – Manohar Joshi, Politician, 12th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• 3 December – Binod Bihari Verma, writer (died 2003).
• 28 December – Ratan Tata, businessman, Chairman of the Tata Group.

Full date unknown

• Jasodhara Bagchi, feminist critic and activist.

Deaths

• 23 November – Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist and science fiction writer (born 1858).

References

1. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263