1884 in India

none February 2024 December 2021 1884 Events in the year 1884 in India. Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin (from 13 December) Events National income - 4,056 million The Webb case – District magistrate of Assam dismisses most charges against Charles Webb, who sexually assaulted and killed a female tea plantation worker; case galvanises public opinion against colonial ruleWright Ashley 2020 Gender, Violence, and Justice in Colonial Assam: The Webb Case, c. 1884 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hft&AN=143680909&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site Journal of Social History 53 4 990–1007 10.1093/jsh/shz010 EBSCOHost subscription Law Explosives Act Colonial Prisoners Removal Act (British statute) Naval Discipline Act (British statute) Criminal Lunatics Act (British statute) Indian Marine Service Act (British statute) Births 27 July - Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 23 October 1951) March – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (d.1960). 21 September – Narendra Nath Dutta, physician (d.1949). 7 November – Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian (d.1967). 22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (d.1953). Deaths 12 December – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (b.1798). References 1884 India Category:Years of the 19th century in India Category:1884 in Asia Category:1880s in India