1896 in India

none September 2020 1896 Events in the year 1896 in India. Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin Events National income - 5,333 million 3 September - Nearly 13,176 members of Ezhava community led by Padmanabhan Palpu submits a petition for rights named Ezhava Memorial before Moolam Thirunal of Travancore.Iyer Meera Palpu: A doctor, activist who fought the plague and the caste system https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/palpu-a-doctor-activist-who-fought-the-plague-and-the-caste-system-876229.html 2024-07-04 Deccan Herald en Bombay plague epidemic killed thousandsEchenberg Myron J. Plague ports : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901 2007 New York University Press 978-0814722329 New York 70292105 A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III 1907 490 Laws Malabar Marriage Act, 1896Kodoth Praveena May 2001 Courting Legitimacy or Delegitimizing Custom? Sexuality, Sambandham and Marriage Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Malabar Modern Asian Studies 35 2 350 10.1017/s0026749x01002037 313121 18481401 7910533 Births 29 January – Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder - Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941) 29 February – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1995). 1 September – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977). 27 October – Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (died 1974). Full date unknown Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (died 1982). Deaths 9 January – Dinkar Rao, statesman dies (born 1819) References Bibliography Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502) Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552. 1907 1896 India Category:Years of the 19th century in India Category:1896 in Asia Category:1890s in India