Events in the year 1905 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 ...

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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 George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman ...

* Viceroy of India –

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, (; 9 July 18451 March 1914), known as Viscount Melgund by courtesy from 1859 to 1891, was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the eighth since Canadi ...

(from 18 November)

Events

* National income - 9,910 million * 4 April – The 7.8 1905 Kangra earthquake, Kangra earthquake shook the Kangra Valley with a maximum European macroseismic scale, EMS-98 intensity of IX (''Destructive''), killing more than 20,000 people * Partition of Bengal (1905), Partition of Bengal. * George, Prince of Wales and Princess Mary tour India, 1905–06

Law

*Indian Railway Board Act

Births

*2 January – Jainendra Kumar, novelist (died 1988 in India, 1988). *16 January – Dr. Manubhai P. Vaidya, educationist and recipient of Best Teacher Award from Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the President of India (died 1966 in India, 1966). *18 March － Malti Bedekar, feminist author(died 2001 in India, 2001). *21 March – Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, later on first martyr of Quit India Movement. Died on 15 June 1943 hanged till death by British. *10 May – Pankaj Mullick, singer and composer (died 1978 in India, 1978). *17 August – Bhudo Advani, actor (died 1985 in India, 1985). *29 August – Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (died 1979 in India, 1979). *9 September – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, seventh head of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham and scholar (died 1981 in India, 1981). *12 December – Mulk Raj Anand, Indian writing in English, novelist in English (died 2004 in India, 2004).

Full date unknown

*Rashid Jahan, author, short story writer and playwright (died 1952 in India, 1952).

Deaths

*19 January – Debendranath Tagore, founder in 1848 of the Brahmo Religion (born 1817 in India, 1817). Full Date Unknown *Protap Chunder Mozoomdar, writer and leader of the Brahmo Samaj (born in 1840)

References

1905 in India, 1905 by country, India Years of the 20th century in India {{India-year-stub