Events in the year 1909 in India.

Incumbents

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Edward VII Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until Death and state funeral of Edward VII, his death in 1910. The second child ...

* 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 from 1898 to 1904, and Vi ...

Events

* National income - 11,094 million * Adoption of schemes of reform * Nasik conspiracy

Law

Morley-Minto reforms The Indian Councils Act 1909 ( 9 Edw. 7. c. 4), commonly known as the Morley–Minto or Minto–Morley Reforms, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the gover ...

*Presidency-Towns Insolvency Act *Anand Marriage Act

Births

*1 January –

Dattaram Hindlekar Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar (1 January 1909 – 30 March 1949) was a cricketer who kept wicket for India in Test cricket. Cricket career Hindlekar toured England in 1936 and 1946 as India's first-choice wicket-keeper. A right-handed bats ...

, cricketer (died 1949) *3 January – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, actor and Carnatic singer (died 1959). *10 February – Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty,

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

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meteorologist A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists ...

(died 2002). *6 April – Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist (died 1957). *16 July – Aruna Asaf Ali, independence fighter (died 1996). *19 July – Balamani Amma, poet (died 2004). *9 September –

Leela Chitnis Leela Chitnis (''née'' Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from the 1930s to the 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her lat ...

, actress (died 2003). *2 October – E. P. Poulose, politician (died 1983). *28 October – Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, writer (died 1980). *20 December –

Vakkom Majeed Vakkom Majeed (born S. Abdul Majeed; 20 December 1909 – 10 July 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and a former member of the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly.Pg 20, Who is who of freedom fighters in Kerala – K. Karunakaran Nai ...

, freedom fighter and politician (died 2000).

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* V. K. Gokak, writer and scholar (died 1992).

References

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