24 April in Hindu history

24 April 1920

The Mother settles at Pondicherry

Mirra Alfassa returns from Japan to Pondicherry to stay with Sri Aurobindo. She later builds the Ashram and founds Auroville.

24 April 1973

Kesavananda Bharati judgment: the basic structure

Hearing the plea of the head of the Edneer Math in Kerala, a 13-judge bench of the Supreme Court rules that Parliament cannot alter the basic structure of the Constitution.