1913 in India

← 1912 1911 1910 1913 in India → 1914 1915 1916
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

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.

Ghadar party foundation

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)
• 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).
• 18 July – N. Krishnaswami Reddy, lawyer (died 2002).
• 27 July – Kalpana Datta, Communist freedom fighter (died 1995).
• 1 August – Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002).
• 13 August – Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001).
• 20 October – Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998).
• 3 November – Antony Mitradas, film director (died 2017).

Deaths

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