1933 in India

Events in the year 1933 in India.

Incumbents

 * Emperor of India – George V
 * Viceroy of India – The Earl of Willingdon

Events

 * National income - ₹19,502 million
 * January – Extensive prosecutions of Communists for treason.
 * Pakistan Declaration published
 * Indian National Congress meeting at Calcutta prevented by the police.
 * 1 May – Gandhi released.
 * 8 May – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.
 * 1 August – Rearrest of Gandhi; released on 24 August.
 * Gandhi transfers charge of Congress to Nehru.
 * 26 November - A 20 year old landlord from Pakur named Amarendra Chandra Pandey killed using a Biological agent.

Law

 * Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act

Births

 * 8 January – Supriya Devi, Bengali actress (born in Burma, now Myanmar) (died 2018).
 * 14 February – Madhubala, actress (died 1969).
 * 18 February – Nimmi, actress. (died 2020).
 * 4 April – Balan K. Nair, actor (died 2000).
 * 20 July – Roddam Narasimha, scientist (died 2020).
 * 1 August – Meena Kumari, actress and poet (died 1972).
 * 31 August – Dhiru Parikh, poet, writer and critic (died 2021).
 * 5 September – Laxminarayan Ramdas, admiral (died 2024).
 * 27 September – Nagesh, comedian actor (died 2009).
 * 3 November – Amartya Sen, economist, philosopher and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.
 * 8 December – Narenda Kumar, mountaineer and soldier (died 2020).

Deaths

 * April 2 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer and ruler of Nawanagar. (b. 1872)