1889 in India

← 1888 1887 1886 1889 in India → 1890 1891 1892
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Events in the year 1889 in India.

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Nawab of Rampur — Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur

• Phulmoni Dasi rape case, case involving the death of a 10-year-old child bride which resulted in legal reforms on the age of consent
• 14 November — , offensive on the tribes of the Chin and Lushai Hills

• Commissioners For Oaths Act (British statute)
• Interpretation Act 1889 (British statute)

• 30 January — Jaishankar Prasad, writer and dramatist (d. 1937)
• 28 February — Babu Chotelal Shrivastava, independence fighter (d. 1976)
• 1 March — Gopi Chand Bhargava, first Chief Minister of Punjab (d. 1966)
• 1 April — Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, founder of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) (f. 1925), social reformer and political activist (d. 1940)
• 4 April — Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Chhayavad writer (d. 1968)
• 1 July — Benegal Rama Rau, fourth governor of the Reserve Bank of India (d. 1968)
• 5 August — Muzaffar Ahmad, communist politician and journalist (d. 1973)
• 16 August — Prabhu Dayal Himatsingka, Indian National Congress politician (d. 1991)
• 3 September — Sadhu Sundar Singh, Christian missionary (d. 1929)
• 6 September — Sarat Chandra Bose, barrister and independence activist (d. 1950)
• 4 November — Jamnalal Bajaj, politician and industrialist (d. 1942)
• 14 November — Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
• 3 December — khudiram Bose, independence fighter and martyr (d. 1908)
• 7 December — Radhakamal Mukerjee, social scientist (d. 1968)
• 23 December — Mehr Chand Mahajan, third Chief Justice of India (d. 1967)
• 25 December — Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, leader of the All-India Muslim League (d. 1973)

• Shapoorji Mistry, businessman (d. 19??)
• Rafiq Ahmed, communist activist (d. 1982)
• Keshavrao Date, actor (d. 1971).
• Amar Nath Kak, lawyer and author (d. 1963).
• Bhai Balmukund, independence fighter and member of the 1912 Delhi conspiracy (d. 1915)

• Anyonya Co-operative Bank, Vadodora bank
• Delhi Cloth & General Mills, textile conglomerate
• KRBL Limited, rice company
• Mohun Bagan A.C., sports club

• 14 December — Tantia Bhil, independence fighter (b. 1842)

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