| | 1 | '''1934: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * The Congress Socialist Party is founded in Bombay, consisting of a group of Marxists, including Jayaprakash Narayan, Achyut Patwardhan and Yusuf Meherally; it later re- established links with the A. P. Kisan Sabhas and emphasised land reform as an integral part of the nationalist agenda. |
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| | 5 | * The CPI is banned. |
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| | 7 | * Jinnah returns from England to head the Muslim League. |
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| | 9 | * Major earthquake in Bihar, destroying the city of Monghyr. |
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| | 11 | * The Royal Indian Navy is set up. |
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| | 13 | * Bengal’s ‘establishment’ literary weekly Desh starts. |
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| | 15 | * [[Bombay Talkies]] is established. |
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| | 17 | * Zubeida and Nanubhai Vakil start Mahalaxmi Cinetone. |
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| | 19 | * First sound features in Oriya (Seeta Bibaha) and Kannada (Bhakta Dhruva). |
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| | 21 | * Ch. Narasimha Rao’s Seeta Kalyanam, for Vel Pictures, is the first sound feature made in Madras. |
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| | 23 | * Meenakshi Cinetone is founded with K. Subramanyam’s Pavalakkodi. |
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| | 25 | * Priyanath Ganguly helps start Kali Films in Calcutta. |
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| | 27 | * Rajit studio’s Toofan Mail is the Hindi cinema’s first major success in the ‘stunt’ film genre, leading to Wadia’s Hunterwali (1935). |
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| | 29 | * The Hindi film periodical Chitrapat, edited by Hrishamcharan Jain, is launched in Delhi; it publishes scripts, fiction serials, poetry and news about international cinema. Bengali film weekly Ruprekha, edited by Jyotishchandra Ghosh, starts. |
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| | 31 | * The Urdu novelist Munshi Premchand is hired as a scenarist by Ajanta Cinetone at Rs 8000 per year. |