1904 in India

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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1904 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – Edward VII
• Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Events

When the Raliegh Bill became an act, it was called Indian Universities, 1904 (Aswathi)

• 18 March, the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act is passed
• the gun carriage factory is established in Jabalpur
• 31 October – The Kumbakonam Bank Limited, is incorporated as a limited company (later known as the City Union Bank)
• the secret Abhinav Bharat Society is founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Births

• 28 March – Chittor V. Nagaiah, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (died 1973).
• 29 July – J. R. D. Tata a French-born Indian aviator and businessman who became India's first licensed pilot (died 1993).
• 8 August – Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (died 1982).
• 26 August – C. R. Kesavan Vaidyar, social activist and industrialist (died 1999).
• 1 October – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (died 1977).
• 2 October – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (died 1966).

Full date unknown

• Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (died 1988).
• Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar, writer (died 1991).
• Murad, actor (died 1989).