1894 in India

← 1893 1892 1891 1894 in India → 1895 1896 1897
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Events in the year 1894 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria ^[1]
• Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (from 11 October)

Events

• National income - ₹4,869 million
• Punjab National Bank was founded by Lala Lajpat Rai

Law

• Prisons Act ^[2]
• Land Acquisition Act

Births

• 1 January – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (d.1974).
• 21 February – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist (d.1955).
• 25 February – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (d.1969).
• 10 April – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (d.1983).
• 20 May – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam (d.1994).
• 3 December – Deiva Zivarattinam, politician (d. 1975)

Full date unknown

• A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (d.1965).

References

1. "Victoria - Life & Reign". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
2. "Prisons Act". India Code. Retrieved 29 March 2022.