12 January –
Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart – he is arrested soon after.
January - Bombay textile mill strike by communists began.[1]
February –
Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.
30 March - Commencement of
Vaikom Satyagraha (the first ever struggle against apartheid in the World) designed by T K Madhavan and
Sree Narayana Guru in Kerala, South India.
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.