1861 in India
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Events in the year 1862
in India:
Incumbents
- Charles Canning, Viceroy
Events
- Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded.
- The Delhi Department of Police is founded.
- Indian Councils Act 1861
- Indian Civil Services Act, 1861
Births
- 27 January: Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri, Sufi, saint, healer (died 1925).
- 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (died 1941).
- 24 September: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (died 1936).
- Date unknown: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (died 1913).
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