1877 in India

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Events in the year 1877 in India.

Incumbents

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Events

• Celebrations in darbars are held in India now that Queen Victoria is Empress of India.
• 1 July 1877 – Kutch Museum was founded.^[1]
• Gilgit Agency was formed.

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).

References