1924 in India

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Reading

  Events

• 12 January – Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart – he is arrested soon after.
• February – Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
• 9 September – 11 September – 1924 Kohat riots.
• 4 December – The Gateway of India in Bombay, built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary in December 1911, is opened by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading.
• Reorganization of the Muslim League by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• Great Flood at Kerala – Great flood of 99
• Commencement of Vaikam Satyagraham designed by T K Madhavan and Sree Narayana Guru. In Kerala, South India.

  Births

• 4 January – Sebastian Kappen, priest and theologian
• 27 January – Sabu Dastagir, actor.
• 21 February – Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer.
• 2 March – Gulshan Rai, film producer and distributor.
• 03 June - M. Karunanidhi, former chief minister of Tamil nadu, poet, orator.
• 6 June – S. R. Bommai, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka.
• 14 December – Raj Kapoor, actor and director.
• 24 December – Narayan Desai, pacifist and writer.
• 25 December -Lt Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Poet, reporter, Former PM of India
• 24 December – Nissim Ezekiel, poet, playwright and art critic.
• 24 December – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer.
• Kamala Markandaya, novelist and journalist.
• P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar, agricultural scientist.
• Harishankar Parsai was a Hindi writer. He was a noted satirist and humorist of modern Hindi literature and is known for his simple and direct style. He wrote vyangya articles.

  Deaths

• Chattampi Swamikal, Hindu sage and social reformer.
• Kumaran Asan, a poet of Malayalam – the language of Kerala – attained eternity in a boat accident at Pallana river, near Thrikkunnappuzha, Harippad, in Kerala, Southern India.