1883 in India

Events in the year 1883 in India.

1883
in
India

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents

  • Empress of India – Queen Victoria
  • Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

Events

  • National income – 4,213 million
  • 15 September – Bombay Natural History Society founded
  • The Calcutta International Exhibition world's fair was held from the end of 1883 to March 1884[1]

Law

  • 9 February – Viceroy Lord Ripon's partial reversal of the Ilbert Bill (1883), a legislative measure that had proposed putting Indian judges in the Bengal Presidency on equal footing with British ones, that transformed the discontent into political action.
  • Land Improvement Loans Act

Births

  • Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar, Marathi writer (d. 1964).

Deaths

  • 17 February – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b.1845).

References


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