1911 in India

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Events in the year 1911 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

Events

December 11: Coronation ceremonies in new capital of India, New Delhi, site of Humayun's Tomb

• 18 February – Henri Pequet, flying a Humber biplane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini junction which was the first flight in India.
• 29 July – Mohun Bagan was the first Indian team and the first Asian team to have defeated a foreign team when they won the 1911 IFA Shield defeating East Yorkshire Regiment 2-1 to lift the IFA Shield.
• 29 August – The Diocese of Kottayam was erected on this day (Kerala, India) for the Knanaya Catholic people of the Syro-Malabar Church. In 2005 the diocese was raised to the rank of Archdiocese.
• 11 December – Coronation in New Delhi of George V and Queen Mary as Emperor of India and Empress consort respectively.
• 12 December – The Delhi Durbar is held, formally announcing the coronation of George V, and his assumption of title Emperor of India.
• 12 December – The capital of India is shifted to New Delhi from Calcutta (now Kolkata).
• 27 December – The Jana Gana Mana, which would become free India's National Anthem, is sung for the first time, at the Indian National Congress annual convention at Calcutta.

Undated

• The first Urdu language typewriter is made available.
• The Tata family starts the first steel mill in Bihar.
• Reenactment with modifications of the Seditious Meetings Act, 1907^[1]

Births

• 26 July – Akhandanand, exponent of Shrimad Bhagvata and scholar (died 1987).
• 31 July – Pannalal Ghosh, flute (bānsurī) player and composer (died 1960).
• 21 August – Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, last ruling Maharaja of Jaipur (died 1970).
• 11 September – Lala Amarnath, cricketer (died 2000).
• 20 September – Shriram Sharma Acharya, seer, sage and Founder of the All World Gayatri Pariwar (died 1990).
• 12 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (died 1987).
• 13 October – Ashok Kumar, actor (died 2001).
• 28 October – Piara Singh Gill, physicist (died 2002).
• 6 December – Dinesh Gupta, freedom fighter and revolutionary, executed (died 1931).

Deaths

• 31 August – Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, sixth Nizam of Hyderabad (born 1866).

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