1877 in India

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← 1876 1875 1874 1877 in India → 1878 1879 1880
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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1877 in India.

Incumbents[]

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Events[]

• Celebrations in darbars are held in India now that Queen Victoria is Empress of India.
• 1 July^{[citation needed]} 1877 – Kutch Museum was founded.^[1]
• Gilgit Agency was formed.
• First Suspension Bridge in India was opened in Punalur, Travancore (now in Kerala).

Births[]

• 2 November – , The Founders and the First Permanent President of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). (Death, 11 July 1957).
• 9 November – , The Poet of The East, Presenter of the Idea of Pakistan (died, 21 April 1938 in Lahore, Pakistan).
• 24 November – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).

Deaths[]

• 30 August – Toru Dutt, poet (b.1856).

See also[]

References[]

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