1924 in India

• Emperor of India – George V
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Reading

• National income - {{INR}}29,930 million
• 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.{{Cite journal |last=Kooiman |first=Dick |date=1980 |title=Bombay Communists and the 1924 Textile Strike |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4368873 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=15 |issue=29 |pages=1223–1236 |jstor=4368873 |issn=0012-9976}}
• 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.
• 14 -20 July - Great flood of 99 in Travancore, Kingdom of Cochin and Malabar District.
• 9–11 September – 1924 Kohat riots.
• 17 September - 21 days long fasting by Mahatma Gandhi for Hindu - Muslim unity.
• 4 December – The Gateway of India in Bombay, built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary in December 1911, is opened by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading.
• Reorganization of the Muslim League by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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• 1 January – Kamala Markandaya, novelist and journalist (died 2004).{{cite book|author=Dr. Arjun R. Masal|title=Kamala Markandaya : A Literary Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6V2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-359-13447-2|pages=11}}
• 4 January – Sebastian Kappen, priest and theologian (died 1993)
• 27 January – Sabu Dastagir, actor (died 1963).
• 21 February – Krishna Prakash Bahadur, writer (died 2000).
• 24 February - Talat Mahmood, playback singer and actor (died 1998).
• 2 March – Gulshan Rai, film producer and distributor (died 2004).
• 19 March – F. C. Kohli, industrialist (died 2020)
• 3 June - M. Karunanidhi, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, poet, orator (died 7 August 2018 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India).
• 6 June – S. R. Bommai, politician and Chief Minister of Karnataka (died 2007).
• 1 July – Jan Azam, Pakistani sports shooter
• 3 July – Arjun Naidu, first-class cricketer (died 2000)
• 6 July – Mahim Bora, Indian writer and educationist (died 2016)
• 22 August – Harishankar Parsai, Hindi satirist and humorist (died 1995){{cite book|author=Hariśaṅkara Parasāī|title=Inspector Matadeen on the Moon: Selected Satires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqNlAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Manas|isbn=978-81-85938-26-4|page=1}}
• 18 September – M. R. Schunker, naval officer (died 2021)
• 13 October – Moturu Udayam, women's activist (died 2002)
• 29 November – Parassala B. Ponnammal, Carnatic musician (died 2021)
• 14 December – Raj Kapoor, actor and director (died 1988).
• 24 December – Narayan Desai, pacifist and writer. (died 2015)
• 25 December - Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Poet, reporter, Former PM of India (died 2018)
• 24 December – Nissim Ezekiel, poet, playwright and art critic (died 2004).
• 24 December – Mohammed Rafi, playback singer (died 1980).
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• Mahendra Raj, structural engineer (died 2022)
• P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar, agricultural scientist (died 1996).

• Chattampi Swamikal, Hindu sage and social reformer (born 1853).
• 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.

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