1936 in India
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Events in the year 1936 in India
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India
India , 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...
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Incumbents
- Emperor of IndiaEmperor of IndiaEmperor/Empress of India was used as a title by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, and revived by the colonial British monarchs during the British Raj in India....
– George VGeorge V of the United KingdomGeorge V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
(until 20 January), Edward VIIIEdward VIII of the United KingdomEdward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...
(until 11 December), George VIGeorge VI of the United KingdomGeorge VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...
Births
- 8 January - Jyotindra Nath DixitJyotindra Nath DixitJyotindra Nath Dixit , commonly referred as J. N. Dixit, was an Indian diplomat and former Indian Foreign Secretary , the top bureaucratic job in the Ministry of External Affairs...
, diplomat and politician (d.20052005 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam* Prime Minister of India – Manmohan Singh-Events:* 10 January - The Delhi High Court says that a "high claim ratio" cannot be grounds to turn down medical insurance contract renewal requests. The court said that medical policies were liable to...
). - 12 January - Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, politician and former Chief Minister of Jammu and KashmirJammu and KashmirJammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...
. - 1 April - A.Q. Khan Pakistani nuclear scientist born in Bhopal
- June - Gopal Dutt KulkarniGopal Dutt Kulkarni-Biography:Gopal Dutt Kulkarni गोपाळ दत्त कुलकर्णी Born June 1936 in Pune, Maharashtra. Educated at Aundh and Pune. Currently Resident of Nashik, Maharashtra....
, journalist and writer. - 15 July - Prabhash JoshiPrabhash JoshiPrabhash Joshi was a noted Indian Journalist, especially Hindi journalism. He was a writer and political analyst. He was strongly in favor of "ethics and transparency"...
, writer, editor and political analyst. - 9 August - Satish KumarSatish KumarSatish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School...
, peace activist and editor. - 13 August - VyjayanthimalaVyjayanthimalaVyjayanthimala Bali is an Indian film actress, Bharathanatyam dancer, carnatic singer, dance choreographer, golfer and a Parliamentarian....
, award-winning actress and classical dancer. - November - Anant D. Adawadkar, author.
- 25 December - Ismail MerchantIsmail MerchantIsmail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
, film producer (d.20052005 in India-Incumbents:* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam* Prime Minister of India – Manmohan Singh-Events:* 10 January - The Delhi High Court says that a "high claim ratio" cannot be grounds to turn down medical insurance contract renewal requests. The court said that medical policies were liable to...
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Deaths
- 13 August - Bhikaiji CamaBhikaiji CamaBhikaiji Rustom CamaBhikhai- is the name as it appears in the biographies. Another common form is Bhikai- , as it appears on the postage stamp. The name is also frequently misspelled 'Bhikha-' , which is a male name...
, independence campaigner (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 ....
). - 19 September - Vishnu Narayan BhatkhandeVishnu Narayan BhatkhandePandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music , an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions...
, Indian classical musician (b.18601860 in India-Births:*10 August - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian classical musician ....
). - 8 October - Munshi PremchandMunshi PremchandMunshi Premchand , was a famous writer of modern Hindi-Urdu literature. He is generally recognized in India as the foremost Hindi-Urdu writer of the early twentieth century...
, foremost Writer in Hindu-Urdu Literature and Indian Freedom fighter (b.31 July 18801880 in India-Births:*16 March — Rajshekhar Basu, writer, chemist and lexicographer .*31 July — Munshi Premchand, foremost Writer in Hindu-Urdu Literature and Indian Freedom fighter ....
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