1885 in India

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in India Events in the year 1885 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin<ref name=Kaminsky>Template:Cite book</ref>

Events

• National income – Template:INR 3,991 million
• 24 June – Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.<ref name=Kaminsky />
• 28 December – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay to form the Congress Party.
• First President of Indian National Congress – W. C. Banerjee; First Secretary of Indian National Congress – A. O. Hume; Dadabbhai Naoroji gave the name Indian National Congress

Law

• Indian Telegraph Act
• Land Acquisition (Mines) Act
• East India Unclaimed Stock Act (British statute)
• East India Loan Act (British statute)
• Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act (British statute)
• Evidence By Commission Act (British statute)

Births

• 14 February – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (died 1949).

References

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