| | 1 | '''1913: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * The first telephone service in India begins in Simla; the first carrier system is between Delhi and Agra in 1930. |
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| | 5 | * The militant Ghadar Movement, calling for the violent overthrow of British rule, is started by US-based Indians in San Francisco. |
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| | 7 | * Pherozeshah Mehta starts the Bombay Chronicle. |
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| | 9 | * Jaladhar Sen and Amulyacharan Bidyabhushan start the popular Bengali literary monthly Bharatbarsha; early essays on film include Pramathanath Bhattacharya’s ‘Bioscope’ in the inaugural issue and Narendra Dev’s ‘Chhayay Mayay Bichitra Rahasya’ on film-making techniques, later published as a book in 1934; the monthly also publishes Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s screenplay of Kalidasa. |
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| | 11 | * Rabindranath Tagore receives Nobel Prize for literature. |
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| | 13 | * Bal Gandharva starts the Gandharva Natak Mandali, the most famous of the Marathi Sangeet Natak repertories. |
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| | 15 | * The Parsee Theatre group, Khatau-Alfred, performs Narayan Prasad Betaab’s Mahabharata play. |
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| | 17 | * Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra opens on 21st April to a select audience; on 3 May it opens commercially in Bombay’s Coronation Cinematograph. |