1898 in India

Events in the year 1898 in India

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

Events

• National income - 6,227 million
• Frontier War of 1897–98

Law

• Code Of Criminal Procedure
• Indian Post Office Act
• Live-stock Importation Act

Births

• 1 January – Binay Ranjan Sen, diplomat, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (died 1993).
• 11 January – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (died 1976).
• 13 January – Samsa, playwright, poet and novelist (died 1939).
• 5 August – Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai, Tamil Carnatic music violinist (died 1970).
• 21 November – Rang Avadhoot, saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord Dattatreya, (died 1968).
• 25 November – Debaki Bose, film director, writer and actor (died 1971).
• 2 December – Indra Lal Roy, World War I flying ace, killed in action (died 1918).

Date unknown

• I. K. Taimni, chemist (died 1978).

Deaths

• 1 October – Manilal Dwivedi (b. 1858), regarded as one of the most influential Gujarati writer and thinker, died at premature age, 40.
• March 27, SA(Syed Ahmed)Khan (Islamist scholar, Founder of Two Nations Theory), Aligarh.
• June 27, Dwarkanath Ganguly , a great social reformer and husband of Kadambini Ganguly died. According to the sources, he was suffering from Hepatitis.

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