Events in the year 1904 in India.
Incumbents
- Emperor of India – Edward VII
- Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Events
- National income - ₹8,840 million
- The gun carriage factory is established in Jabalpur
- 31 October – The Kumbakonam Bank Limited, is incorporated as a limited company (later known as the City Union Bank)
- The secret Abhinav Bharat Society is founded by extremist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Law
- Raleigh Bill became Indian Universities Act
- 18 March, the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act is passed
Births
- 28 March – V. Nagayya, actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer (died 1973).
- 29 July – J. R. D. Tata a French-born Indian aviator and businessman who became India's first licensed pilot (died 1993).
- 8 August – Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (died 1982).
- 26 August – C. R. Kesavan Vaidyar, social activist and industrialist (died 1999).
- 1 October – A. K. Gopalan, communist leader (died 1977).
- 2 October – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (died 1966).
- 29 December – Kuvempu, poet, writer and playwright (died 1994).
Full date unknown
- Majnun Gorakhpuri, writer and literary critic (died 1988).
- Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar, writer (died 1991).
- Murad, actor (died 1989).
Deaths
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