1941 in India

Events in the year 1941 in India.

Incumbents

Emperor of India – George VI
Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
President of the Indian National Congress - Abul Kalam Azad{{Cite web |date=2021-10-28 |title=Indian National Congress: From 1885 till 2017, a brief history of past presidents |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/here-is-a-list-of-past-presidents-of-indian-national-congress-4967084/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}

National income - {{INR}}44,085 million
June 21 - Rajendra Prasad lays the foundation stone of Scindia Shipyard at Visakhapatnam.{{Cite web |title=Hindustan Shipyard Limited - Saga by jonnala nagireddy - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/media360/docs/hsl_book |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}

6 January – Serajul Alam Khan, Bangladeshi politician and philosopher (died 2023)
17 January – Bindu, actress.
25 March – Udyavara Madhava Acharya, writer, poet and actor (died 2020)
10 April – Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
21 June – Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore
2 July – Ashalata Wabgaonkar, actress (died 2020).
5 July – Nitin Desai, Under Secretary General, United Nations, 1993–2003
15 July – Nikhil Kumar, politician.
17 July – Bharathiraja, filmmaker.
31 July – Amarsinh Chaudhary, politician and Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 2004).
4 September – Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

28 March – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (born 1877).
18 June - Ayyankali, social reformer from Kerala famous for Villu vandi Samaram of 1893 (born 1863).
7 August – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (born 1861).
9 November – Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy (born 1872).