1912 in India

none 1912 Events in the year 1912 in India. Incumbents Emperor of India – George V Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events National income - 12,869 million On February 14, George V gave a speech in the British Parliament about his visit to the imperial colonies and expressed his trust to India people and government he saw during his visit to India in 1911.https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1912/feb/14/his-majestys-most-gracious-speech His Majesty King George V Speech https://web.archive.org/web/20090714201752/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1912/feb/14/his-majestys-most-gracious-speech 2009-07-14 2009-08-26 Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) 14 February 1912 live On March 22, The State of Bihar is formed out of the erstwhile State of Bengal. On April 20, Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School, a senior secondary boys' school was founded at Baranagar, Kolkata, West Bengal.https://belurmath.org/ramakrishna-mission-ashrama-baranagar-kolkata/ Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Baranagar, Kolkata 13 June 2018 On December 18–21, the India National (Missionary) Conference convened in Calcutta. One of its principal conclusions recognized the need for good Christian literature in India. To decide this question the Conference established a committee which by 1914 proposed three series of books aimed at embracing Christian principles.https://books.google.com/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA155 The History of British India: A Chronology John F. Riddick Greenwood Publishing Group 2006 978-0-313-32280-8 155 On December 29, India obtained its first Anglican bishop. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah (1874–1945), the son of an Indian clergyman, educated at Madras Christian College, was consecrated as the First Indian Anglican bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. There were present 11 British Anglican bishops, and the Governor of Bengal. In ten days Azariah took office in the newly created diocese of Dornakal.https://books.google.com/books?id=cecLBU_oRTcC&pg=PA97 In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V.S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India Susan Billington Harper Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 2000 978-0-8028-3874-2 97, 98 The construction of New Delhi was started. It was decided in 1911 when George V visited India during his travels to the British Empire colonies. The British Viceroy made Sir Edwin Lutyens responsible for the overall plan of Delhi and in 1912 he visited New Delhi to start his work. But the construction itself began only after World War I. Currently New Delhi is considered to be the crowning glory of the British Raj. Muslim Indian doctors and nurses were sent to join the Red Crescent organization to provide medical aid for Turkish troops in the Balkan war.https://books.google.com/books?id=RDw4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA182 The Muslims of British India Peter Hardy 1972 CUP Archive 978-0-521-09783-3 182 Orissais carved out as a separate province from the British Raj. Sylhet is reconstituted into the non-regulation Chief Commissioner's Province of Assam (Northeast Frontier Province).William Cooke Taylor, A Popular History of British India. p. 505 The Government College of Technology, Rasul is established in the Punjab. Law June – the Government of India Bill is passed by which the seat of government is moved from Calcutta to Delhi and changes in the constitution of Bengal and Assam are madeEveryman's Dictionary of Dates Dent J.M. 1971 6 262 India introduced registration of motor vehicles.http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/india/brindia18851918.html British India 1885-1918 https://web.archive.org/web/20091010184105/http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/india/brindia18851918.html 2009-10-10 2009-08-26 live Wild Birds and Animals Protection Acthttps://www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/12930?view_type=search&sam_handle=123456789/2490 Wild Birds and Animals Protection Act India Code 29 March 2022 Indian Lunacy Acthttps://www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/11080?view_type=search&sam_handle=123456789/2489 Indian Lunacy Act India Code 29 March 2022 Publications In March, Lala Har Dayal wrote an article for Modern Review entitled "Marx: A Modern Rishi", which is believed to be the first Indian article on Marx.'The Haj to Utopia': Anti-colonial Radicalism in the South Asian Diaspora, 1905--1930 Maia Ramnath University of California 2008 978-0-549-65494-0 108 Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai wrote the biography of Karl Marx (1912) in Malayalam, which was the first Marx biography in any Indian language.2009-06-26 ++++++ official website of INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT +++++ http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/literacycriticmwesternifluence.htm 2022-03-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20090626234854/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/literacycriticmwesternifluence.htm 26 June 2009 dead Births 27 February – Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer (died 1990 in France). 12 May – Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai, Carnatic violinist (died 1979) 3 July – Hans Raj Khanna, Supreme Court Judge (died 2008). 10 September – B. D. Jatti, former Indian president(acting) (died 2002). 15 September – Russi Karanjia, journalist and editor (died 2008). 12 October – Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and minister of foreign affairs (died 2006).Islam, Sirajul Huq, Muhammad Shamsul 25 October – Madurai Mani Iyer, Carnatic music singer (died 1968). Abdul Hafeez or 'Hafeez Hoshiarpuri', Urdu poet born in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. (died 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan). Shankara Ram. M.Varadarajan, Tamil novelist. (died 1974). Deaths Hafeez Jaunpuri (real name Haafiz Muhammad Ali), poet, born in 1865 in Jaunpur. Rev. Thomas Walker, Indian chief spokesperson of Keswick Convention. Theodore L. Pennell, a medical missionary in India, born in 1867. References 1912 India Category:Years of the 20th century in India Category:1912 in Asia Category:1910s in India