1938 in India

← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in India → 1939 1940 1941
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1938 in India. Indian independence – Government of India Act gives Indians a role in governing their provinces.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George VI
• Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

Events

• Minor engagements on the North West Frontier throughout the year.
• December – Announcement that the Ottawa trade agreement would not be continued after 31 March 1939.

Births

• 7 January – B. Saroja Devi, actress.
• 13 January
  • Shivkumar Sharma, musician
  • Nabaneeta Dev Sen, novelist, children's author and poet. (died 2019)
• 18 March – Shashi Kapoor, legendary actor in Bollywood (died 2017)
• 31 March – Sheila Dikshit, politician and Chief Minister of Delhi. (died 2019)
• 19 May – Girish Karnad, writer, playwright, actor and director. (died 2019)
• 1 July – Durai Murugan, lawyer and politician
• 9 July – Sanjeev Kumar, actor (died 1985).
• 13 July – Thomas Savundaranayagam, Sri Lanka Tamil priest, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna
• 15 July – Pilot Baba, Indian Air Force fighter pilot, later guru
• 19 July – Dom Moraes, poet, writer and columnist (died 2004).
• 19 July – Jayant Narlikar, astrophysicist.
• 25 July – Sudhir Kakar, psychoanalyst and writer.
• 8 September – Poornachandra Tejaswi, writer and novelist (died 2007).
• 17 November – Shamim Hanafi, Urdu scholar (died 2021)
• 11 December – T. S. R. Subramanian, politician (died 2018)

Full date unknown

• Shashi Deshpande, novelist.
• Manohar Singh, theatre director and actor. (died 2002)

Deaths

• 16 January – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (born 1876).
• 14 November – Mahatma Hansraj, educationist, Arya Samaj leader (born 1864)