Events in the year 1903 in India.
Incumbents
*
Emperor of India
Emperor or Empress of India was a title used by British monarchs from 1 May 1876 (with the Royal Titles Act 1876) to 22 June 1948, that was used to signify their rule over British India, as its imperial head of state. Royal Proclamation of 22 ...
–
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
* Viceroy of India –
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Events
* National income - 8,926 million
* 1 January –
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
is proclaimed
Emperor of India
Emperor or Empress of India was a title used by British monarchs from 1 May 1876 (with the Royal Titles Act 1876) to 22 June 1948, that was used to signify their rule over British India, as its imperial head of state. Royal Proclamation of 22 ...
.
* SNDP YOGAM, the religious organization of the Eezhava community in Kerala, South India established by the trio, Sree Narayana Guru, Dr Palpu And Kumaran Asaan.
Law
*Works Of Defence Act
*Victoria Memorial Act
Births
*3 April –
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay,
social reformer and
freedom fighter (died
1988
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).
*
Gopi Krishna, yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer and writer (died
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
).
Deaths
* 29 December -
Baba Jaimal Singh
Jaimal Singh (1839–1903) was an Indian spiritual leader. He became an initiate of Shiv Dayal Singh (Radha Soami). After his initiation, Jaimal Singh served in the British Indian Army as a sepoy (private) from the age of seventeen and attain ...
, Founder of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (born 1839).
References
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
Years of the 20th century in India
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