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Events in the year 1936 in India.

Incumbents

  • Emperor of India – George V (until 20 January), Edward VIII (until 11 December), George VI
  • Viceroy of India – The Earl of Willingdon
  • Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (from 18 April)

Events

  • National income – 28,912 million
  • August 15 - India won the third consecutive hockey gold medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin).
  • 15–18 October – Religious riots in Bombay.
  • 12 November - Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore.
  • 27 December - Indian National Congress conducts its first rural session in Faizpur, Jalgaon district.
  • 28 December – Indian National Congress rejected new constitution.

Law

  • 3 March – Legislative Assembly passed a motion to terminate the Ottawa trade agreement.
  • Payment of Wages Act
  • Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act

Births

  • 8 January – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, diplomat and politician (died 2005).
  • 12 January – Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, politician and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. (died 2016).
  • 24 January – Gulam Noon, Baron Noon, businessman (died 2015).
  • 1 April
  • Tarun Gogoi, former Chief Minister of Assam (died 2020)
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist born in Bhopal (died 2021)
  • 29 April – Zubin Mehta, conductor
  • 4 June – Nutan, actress (died 1991)
  • 14 June – M. S. Gill, politician and bureaucrat (died 2023)
  • July 1
  • Mihir Rakshit, economist
  • E. Ponnuswamy, politician
  • 15 July – Prabhash Joshi, writer, editor and political analyst. (died 2009)
  • 21 July – Rafi Usmani, Pakistani Muslim scholar. (died 2022)
  • 3 August – Bannanje Govindacharya, Sanskrit scholar. (died 2020)
  • 9 August – Satish Kumar, peace activist and editor.
  • 13 August – Vyjayanthimala, award-winning actress and classical dancer.
  • 8 September – Indu Jain, media executive and philanthropist (died 2021)
  • 13 November – Suhail Zaheer Lari, Historian, author. (died 2020)
  • 25 December – Ismail Merchant, film producer (died 2005).

Full date unknown

  • Anand, writer.
  • Narayanan Vaghul, banker and philanthropist (died 2024)

Deaths

  • 28 February – Kamala Nehru, activist and spouse of Jawaharlal Nehru (born 1899).
  • 13 August – Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (born 1861).
  • 19 September – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian classical musician (born 1860).
  • 8 October – Premchand, writer in Hindi-Urdu literature and freedom fighter (born 1880).

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