1861 in India
Events in the year 1862
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in India:
Incumbents
- Charles Canning, Viceroy
Events
- Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded.
- The Delhi Department of Police is founded.
Law
- 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
- 27 January: Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri, Sufi, saint, healer (died 1925).
- 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (died 1941).
- 24 September: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (died 1936).
- Date unknown: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (died 1913).
- 18 July:Kadambini Ganguly, first female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent (died 1923).
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