1896 in India
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Events in the year1896 in India.
Incumbents
[edit]- Empress of India–Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India –Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
Events
[edit]- National income -₹5,333 million
- 3 September - Nearly 13,176 members ofEzhavacommunity led byPadmanabhan Palpusubmits a petition for rights namedEzhava MemorialbeforeMoolam ThirunalofTravancore.[1]
- Bombay plague epidemickilled thousands[2]
- Afaminestarted inBundelkhandand continued into 1897[3]
Laws
[edit]Births
[edit]- 29 January –Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj,founder - Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941)
- 29 February –Morarji Desai,independence activist and 6thPrime Minister of India(died1995).
- 1 September –A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,founder-acharya of theInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness(died1977).
- 27 October –Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya,scholar ofSanskrit(died1974).
Full date unknown
[edit]- Firaq Gorakhpuri,poet (died1982).
Deaths
[edit]- 9 January –Dinkar Rao,statesman dies (born1819)
References
[edit]- ^Iyer, Meera."Palpu: A doctor, activist who fought the plague and the caste system".Deccan Herald.Retrieved4 July2024.
- ^Echenberg, Myron J. (2007).Plague ports: the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901.New York: New York University Press.ISBN978-0814722329.OCLC70292105.
- ^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.JSTOR313121.PMID18481401.S2CID7910533.(subscription required)
Bibliography
[edit]- 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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