1883 in India
Events in the year 1883 in India.
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Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Events
- National income - ₹4,314 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
- "National and International Exhibitions Covered by the Science Museum Library Collections". Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
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