1861 in India

none 1861 thumb | right | alt=Army surgical staff, Calcutta 1861. | Army surgical staff, Calcutta 1861. Events in the year 1861 in India: Incumbents Charles Canning, ViceroyCunningham Earl (Charles) Canning 1891 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Earl_Charles_Canning/Vx_JW2C_Dl4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=1861+Charles+Canning,+Viceroy&pg=PA164&printsec=frontcover 2025-12-24 164 Events Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded. The Delhi Department of Police is founded. Law Indian Councils Act 1861Britain Great The Indian Councils Act, and the Acts Amending it: With All Official Papers Connected Therewith and the Rules for the Conduct of Business at Meetings of the Council National Press 1893 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Indian_Councils_Act_and_the_Acts_Ame/i2pDAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Indian+Councils+Act+1861&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover 2025-12-24 1 Indian Civil Services Act Indian High Courts Act Police Act Stage-Carriages Act Foreign Law Ascertainment Act (British statute) East India Loan Act (British statute) Malicious Damages Act (British statute) Wills Act (British statute) Domicile Act (British statute) Births 27 January: Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri, Sufi, saint, healer (died 1925). 6 May: Motilal Nehru (died 1931). 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (died 1941). 18 June: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (died 1913). 18 July:Kadambini Ganguly, first female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent (died 1923). 2 Aug: Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray.(died 1944). 21 Sept: Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (died 1962). 24 Sep: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (died 1936). References 1861 India Category:Years of the 19th century in India