1913 in India

Events in the year 1913 in India.

Incumbents

 * Emperor of India – George V
 * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

Events

 * National income - ₹13,473 million
 * 3 May- Raja Harischandra, First full-length movie of India released. Beginning of Indian Film Industry.
 * 6 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
 * Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself.

Law

 * Official Trustees Act
 * White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act

Births

 * 5 March – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music (died July y 25, 2009).
 * 1 May– Balraj Sahni, Indian actor (died 13 April 1973)
 * Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002).
 * Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998).
 * Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001).
 * 29 march Bhawani Prasad Mishra – a great poet of Hindi
 * 1 July PP Kumaramangalam, Chief of the Army Staff of Indian Army (08 Jun 1966 to 07 Jun 1969) (died 2000).
 * 27 July Kalpana Dutta Joshi, Freedom Fighter, Communist Movement in India (died 08 Feb 1995 in Calcutta, India).

Deaths

 * Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (born 1861).