1896 in India
Events in the year 1896 in India.
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Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
Events
Laws
- Malabar Marriage Act, 1896[3]
Births
- 29 January – Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder - Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941)
- 29 February – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1995).
- 1 September – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977).
- 27 October – Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (died 1974).
Full date unknown
- Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (died 1982).
Deaths
- 9 January – Dinkar Rao, statesman dies (born 1819)
References
- J., Echenberg, Myron (2007). Plague ports : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814722329. OCLC 70292105.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III 1907, p. 490
- Kodoth, Praveena (May 2001). "Courting Legitimacy or Delegitimizing Custom? Sexuality, Sambandham and Marriage Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Malabar". Modern Asian Studies. 35 (2): 350. doi:10.1017/s0026749x01002037. JSTOR 313121. PMID 18481401. S2CID 7910533.(subscription required)
Bibliography
- Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III (1907), The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502), Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552.
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