Events in the year 1921 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India George V

Events

• 23 December Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
• The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation. Riots spread all over Bombay
• Non Cooperation Movement was launched
• Khilafat Movement was launched
• rise of gandhi and his civil disobedience movement
• non cooperative movement started

Births

January to June

• 8 March Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu poet and Hindi lyricist and songwriter (died 1980).
• 14 April Subodh Mukherjee, filmmaker (died 2005).
• 2 May Satyajit Ray, filmmaker (died 1992).
• 21 May Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist (died 1990).
• 28 June P. V. Narasimha Rao, politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (died 2004).

July to December

• 1 August Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (died 1966).
• 24 September Dhulipala Seetharama Sastry, actor (died 2007).
• 7 December Pramukh Swami Maharaj, leader of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.

Full date unknown

• B. B. Lal, archaeologist.

Deaths

• 11 September Subramanya Bharathi, poet, independence fighter and reformer (born 1882).
• Ahmed Rida Khan, Sunni Muslim scholar and founder of Barelwi school of thought (born 1856).