1921 in India

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National income – ₹ 25,337 million
June – the Madras province declared in a judgement that women also have the right to vote
August - Malabar rebellion commenced.
November - The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation. He was greeted with empty streets (The agitation was non violent).^[1]
19 November - Prince of Wales riots
23 December – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.

8 April – Permanent Advisory Council of Princes inaugurated; Council of State and Legislative Assembly inaugurated.^[2]
Maintenance Orders Enforcement Act

9 January – Lister Sinclair, Indian-Canadian broadcaster and playwright (died 2006)
21 January – Jaswant Singh Marwah, journalist and author
24 February – Paulaseer (Paulaseer Lawrie Muthukrishna), Indian preacher (died 1989)^[3]
8 March – Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (died 1980)
14 April – Subodh Mukherjee, filmmaker (died 2005)
2 May – Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (died 1992)
21 May – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (died 1990)
2 May – B. B. Lal, archaeologist, Director-General Archaeological Survey of India (1968–1972) (died 2022)
28 June – P. V. Narasimha Rao, politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (died 2004)

1 August – Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (died 1966)
24 September – Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry, actor (died 2007)
7 December – Pramukh Swami Maharaj, leader of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha

11 September – Subramanya Bharathi, poet, independence fighter and reformer (born 1882)
Ahmed Rida Khan, Sunni Muslim scholar and founder of Barelwi school of thought (born 1856)

^ Halley, Catherine (2 February 2022). "The Prince of Wales' 1921 Trip to India Was a Royal Disaster". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^ Dent, J.M. Everyman's Dictionary of Dates (6 ed.). p. 262.
^ Bergunder, Michael (2003). "From Pentecostal Healing Evangelist to Kalki Avatar", in Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500, edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg and Alaine M. Low. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 359.

Pre-British period

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