1899 in India

Events in the year 1899 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
• Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (from 6 January)

Events

• National income - 6,715 million
• 4 January - Fire from a quarantined Indian made vessel gutted 300 homes and numerous British owned factories in Fort Kochi.
• 1 May - Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission at Calcutta.
• 6 June - Sivakasi riots of 1899 between Nadar and Maravar communities.
• 10 November - Sir Ranbir Singh is invested with full ruling powers over the princely state of Jind He ascended the throne as Maharaja of Jind at the age of 8.
• 31 December - The Sunset of the Century written by Rabindranath Tagore.

Dates unknown

• Indian famine of 1899–1900

Law

• Indian Stamp Act
• Government Buildings Act
• Glanders and Farcy Act

Births

• 15 February – Mani Madhava Chakyar, master Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist (died 1990).
• 30 March - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali story writer and novelist (died 1970).
• 19 July – Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (died 1979).
• 1 August – Kamala Nehru, activist and spouse of Jawaharlal Nehru (died 1936)
• 10 October – Baldev Upadhyaya, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic (died 1999).
• 26 December - Udham Singh, freedom fighter (died 1940).

Deaths

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