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Events in the year1941 in India.

• Emperor of India –George VI
• Viceroy of India –Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
• President of the Indian National Congress -Abul Kalam Azad^[1]

• National income -₹44,085 million
• June 21 -Rajendra Prasad lays the foundation stone ofScindia Shipyard atVisakhapatnam.^[2]

• The Delhi Restriction of Uses of Land Act, 1941
• The Berar Laws Act, 1941

• 6 January –Serajul Alam Khan, Bangladeshi politician and philosopher (died2023)
• 25 March –Udyavara Madhava Acharya, writer, poet and actor (died2020)
• 10 April –Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
• 17 April –Bindu, actress.
• 12 May –Hafez Ahmadullah, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and cleric (died2025)
• 21 June –Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore
• 2 July –Ashalata Wabgaonkar, actress (died2020).
• 5 July –Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993–2003
• 15 July –Nikhil Kumar, politician.
• 17 July –Bharathiraja, filmmaker.
• 31 July –Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician andChief Minister of Gujarat (died2004).
• 4 September –Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, formerChief Minister of Maharashtra.

• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
• T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.
• Yasmeen Lari, Architect

• 28 March –Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the DeputyCommissioner of Police of theMumbai Police (born1877).
• 18 June -Ayyankali,social reformer fromKerala famous forVillu vandi Samaram of 1893 (born 1863).
• 7 August –Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (born1861).
• 9 November –Ganganath Jha, scholar ofSanskrit,Indian philosophy andBuddhist philosophy (born1872).

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born1862).

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