1941 in India

Incumbents

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

  Events

• 28 January – A customs union is established with French India.

  Births

• 1 January – Govardhan Asrani, actor.
• 10 April – Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician and Minister.
• 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.
• 4 September – Sushilkumar Shinde, politician and Minister, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

  Full date unknown

• Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, medical scientist.
• T S Krishnamurthy, civil servant, Chief Election Commissioner.

  Deaths

• 28 March – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police.
• 7 August – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer.
• 9 November – Ganganath Jha, scholar of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and Buddhist philosophy.

  Full date unknown

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer.