1877 in India

Events in the year 1877 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria

Events

• Queen Victoria is made the Empress of India. This led to great celebrations in Darbars in India while millions of Indians perished in the famine that was going on then.

Births

• 9 November — Muhammad Iqbal, poet of the East (d.1938).
• 24 November — Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).

Deaths

• 30 August — Toru Dutt, poet (b.1856).