1861 in India
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Events in the year1862
in India:
Incumbents
[edit]- Charles Canning,Viceroy
Events
[edit]- Girls' High School & College, Allahabad,is founded.
- The Delhi Department of Policeis founded.
Law
[edit]- Indian Councils Act 1861
- Indian Civil Services Act
- Indian High Courts Act
- Police Act
- Stage-Carriages Act
- Foreign Law Ascertainment Act (British statute)
- East India Loan Act (British statute)
- Malicious Damages Act (British statute)
- Wills Act (British statute)
- Domicile Act (British statute)
Births
[edit]- 27 January:Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri,Sufi, saint, healer (died1925).
- 7 May:Rabindranath Tagore,poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (died1941).
- 24 September:Bhikaiji Cama,independence campaigner (died1936).
- Date unknown:Devaki Nandan Khatri,first author of mystery novels in Hindi (died1913).
- 18 July:Kadambini Ganguly,first female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent (died1923).