| | 1 | '''1937: Key Events''' |
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| | 3 | * Elections under the 1935 Act, when several political veterans contest for governmental office for the first time in their lives, leads to a Congress triumph in 8 of the 11 British-ruled provinces. |
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| | 5 | * C. P. Ramaswamy Aiyer, the dewan of Travancore, announces the Temple Entry proclamation and later concedes communal representation to keep the Christian, Ezhava and Muslim communities from becoming a joint opposition to Nair and caste-Hindu domination. |
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| | 7 | * Amrita Sher-Gil, who returned to India in 1934, visits the Ajanta and Mattancheri murals (1936-7), and paints her major works, Brahmacharis and Bride’s Toilet. |
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| | 9 | * First ‘songless’ film, J. B. H. Wadia’s Naujawan. |
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| | 11 | * The first indigenously made colour film is Gidwani’s Kisan Kanya, using the Cinecolor process acquired by Imperial. |
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| | 13 | * T. R. Sundaram starts Modern Theatres in Salem; Newtone Studio starts in Madras. |
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| | 15 | * The Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) is formed in Bombay, the first and for several years the most influential trade union in the film industry. |
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| | 17 | * Sant Tukaram receives a special jury mention in Venice. |
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| | 19 | * The Amateur Cine Society of India is formed in Bombay by, a. o. , P. V. Pathy, Stanley Jepson and Rudi Van Leyden. |
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| | 21 | * Jogjiban Bandyopadhyay sets up the Bengali film weekly Kheyali. |