Events in the year 1906 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India Edward VII

Events

• 1 January - British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
• 11 September - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
• 30 December - The All-India Muslim League, a political organization that represented the interests of Indian Muslims, is formed.

Births

• 10 October - R.K. Narayan, novelist (died 2001).
• 23 December - Edasseri Govindan Nair, poet, playwright and essayist (died 1974).

Deaths

• Acharya Rajendrasuri, reformer in Shvetambar sect of Jainism (born 1827).