1874 in India

Events in the year 1874 in India.

Incumbents

• Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy

Events

• National income - ₹3,507 million
• Bihar famine of 1873–74
• East India Company is dissolved.

Law

• Married Women's Property Act
• Civil Jails Act
• East India Annuity Funds Act (British statute)
• East India Loan Act (British statute)
• Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act (British statute)
• Colonial Clergy Act (British statute)

Births

• Kavi Kalapi, poet (died 1900)

References