1913 in India
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Events
- 6 November - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n miners in South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. - Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
(1861-1941), BengaliBengali peopleThe Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...
poet, got the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
for his book of lyrics called GitanjaliGitanjaliGitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated....
translated into English by himself.
Births
- 5 March - Gangubai HangalGangubai HangalGangubai Hangal was an Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music, who was known for her deep and powerful voice. Hangal belonged to the Kirana gharana.-Early life:...
, IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n singer of the khyalKhyalKhyal is the modern genre of classical singing in North India. Its name comes from an Arabic word meaning "imagination". It is thought to have developed out of the qawwali singing style. It appeared more recently than dhrupad, is a more free and flexible form, and it provides greater scope for...
genre of Hindustani classical musicHindustani classical musicHindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...
(d.July 25, 2009). - 1 May- Balraj SahniBalraj SahniBalraj Sahni , born Yudhishthir Sahni , was a famous Hindi film actor. He belonged to a Punjabi Khatri family from Bhera now in Punjab, Pakistan...
, Indian actor (d.13 April, 1973) - Bhagwan DadaBhagwan DadaBhagwan Dada was an Indian actor and film director. He is best known for his social film Albela.-Early life:...
, actor and film director (d.20022002 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – K. R. Narayanan until July 25, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam* Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee-January:*9 January - The government announces that it is laying landmines along the entire length of its 2,800-km border with Pakistan.*10 January - 800 protesters...
). - Attia HosainAttia HosainAttia Hosain is a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar background. She moved to Britain in 1947.-Biography:Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College...
, writer, feminist and broadcaster (d.19981998 in IndiaEvents in the year 1998 in the Republic of India.-Incumbents:* President of India – K. R. Narayanan* Prime Minister of India – Inder Kumar Gujral until 19 March, Atal Bihari Vajpayee-January to March:...
). - Chandrakant MandareChandrakant MandareChandrakant Mandare was a well-known Marathi actor and an artist. He played different roles in Marathi films and devoted his life to art. He was a master in paintings and powder shading....
, actor and artist (d.20012001 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – K. R. Narayanan* Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee-January:* 1 January - Calcutta officially becomes Kolkata, reverting to its precolonial name....
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Deaths
- Devaki Nandan KhatriDevaki Nandan KhatriDevaki Nandan Khatri was an Indian writer, who belonged to the first generation of popular novelists in the modern Hindi language. Also known as Babu Devakinandan Khatri, he was the first author of mystery novels in Hindi. Chandrakanta is the most popular of his works.- Biography :Khatri was born...
, first author of mystery novels in HindiHindiStandard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
(b.18611861 in India-Events:*Boys' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded.* The Delhi Department of Police is founded.-Births:*7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer .*24 September: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner ....
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