On This Day in India

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On This Day in India

A wider calendar of Indian history — including stories already published on Curious Indian and important dates we have not covered yet.

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1 May

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1876Historical eventStory not yet covered

Queen Victoria takes the title Empress of India

This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.

1919Historical eventStory not yet covered

Amanullah Khan attacks British government in India

This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.

1944BornStory not yet covered

Suresh Kalmadi

Indian politician.

This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.

1960StatehoodStory not yet covered

Bombay State is reorganized into Maharashtra and Gujarat

The Bombay Reorganisation Act took effect on 1 May 1960, creating the State of Gujarat and renaming the residuary State of Bombay as Maharashtra.

This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.

Curious Indian-linked dates are editorially derived from our article archive. Uncovered dates use an externally researched historical corpus that has been filtered for India relevance; no article text is analysed and no external service is called at page load.

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