1896 in India

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Events in the year 1896 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

Events

• National income - ₹5,333 million
• Bombay plague epidemic killed thousands
• A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897

Law

• Malabar Marriage Act, 1896

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)