1861 in India

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Events in the year 1862

in India:

Incumbents[]

• Charles Canning, Viceroy

Events[]

• , is founded.
• The Delhi Department of Police is founded.
• Indian Councils Act 1861
• Indian Civil Services Act, 1861

Births[]

• 27 January: , 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).
• 18 July:Kadambini Ganguly,1st female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent(died:1923).