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Events in the year1911 in India.

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

• National income -₹11,822 million
• December 11 -Coronation ceremonies in new capital of India,New Delhi, site ofHumayun's Tomb
• 18 February –Henri Pequet, flying aHumber biplane, carried mail fromAllahabad to Naini junction which was the first flight in India.
• 29 July –Mohun Bagan was the first Indian team and the first Asian team to have defeated a foreign team when they won the 1911 IFA Shield defeatingEast Yorkshire Regiment 2–1 to lift the IFA Shield.
• 29 August – TheDiocese of Kottayam was erected on this day (Kerala, India) for theKnanaya Catholic people of theSyro-Malabar Church. In 2005 the diocese was raised to the rank ofArchdiocese.
• 11 December –Coronation inNew Delhi ofGeorge V andQueen Mary asEmperor of India andEmpress consort respectively.
• 12 December – TheDelhi Durbar is held, formally announcing the coronation ofGeorge V, and his assumption of titleEmperor of India.
• 12 December – The capital of India is shifted toNew Delhi fromCalcutta (nowKolkata).
• 27 December – TheJana Gana Mana, which would become free India'snational anthem, is sung for the first time, at theIndian National Congress annual convention atCalcutta.
• The firstUrdu language typewriter is made available.^{[citation needed]}
• TheTata family starts the firststeel mill inBihar.

• Re-enactment with modifications of the Seditious Meetings Act^[1][2]
• Geneva Convention Act (British statute)

• 1 April –Fauja Singh, centenarian marathon runner (died2025)
• 24 July –Pannalal Ghosh, flute (bānsurī) player and composer (died1960).
• 21 August –Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, last rulingMaharaja ofJaipur (died1970).
• 11 September –Lala Amarnath, cricketer (died2000).
• 20 September –Shriram Sharma Acharya, seer, sage and Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar (died1990).
• 12 October –Vijay Merchant, cricketer (died1987).
• 13 October –Ashok Kumar, actor (died2001).
• 28 October –Piara Singh Gill,physicist (died2002).
• 6 December –Dinesh Gupta, freedom fighter and revolutionary, executed (died1931).

• Narayan Apte, accomplice in assassination ofMahatma Gandhi, executed (died1949).
• Rappal Sangameswaraier Krishnan, scientist and researcher (died1999).

• 31 August –Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, sixthNizam of Hyderabad (born1866).

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