Events in the year 1941 in India.

Incumbents

• Emperor of India George VI

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 (died 2004).
• 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 (born 1877).
• 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).

Full date unknown

• Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (born 1862).