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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1938 in India. Indian independence – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.

Incumbents[edit | edit source]

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

Events[edit | edit source]

Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.^[1]
December – Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.^[2]

Births[edit | edit source]

7 January – B. Saroja Devi, actress.
13 January
- Shivkumar Sharma, musician
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet. (died 2019)
18 March – Shashi Kapoor, Bollywood actor (died 2017)
31 March – Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi. (died 2019)
19 May – Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)
12 June – Yesudasan, political cartoonist (died 2021)
1 July – Durai Murugan, lawyer and politician
9 July – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died 1985).
13 July – Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
15 July – Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru
19 July – Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004).
19 July – Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist.
25 July – Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.^[3]
8 September – Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007).
17 November – Shamim Hanafi, Urdu scholar (died 2021)
11 December – T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died 2018)

Full date unknown[edit | edit source]

Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
Manohar Singh, theatre director and actor. (died 2002)

Deaths[edit | edit source]

16 January – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (born 1876).
14 November – Mahatma Hansraj, educationist, Arya Samaj leader (born 1864)

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
↑ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263
↑ "A book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections" Sudhir Kakar, Viking Press

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[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] "A book of Memory: Confessions and Reflections" Sudhir Kakar, Viking Press

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