Events in the year 1861 in India:
Incumbents Charles Canning, Viceroy
Events Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded. The Delhi Department of Police is founded.
Law Indian Councils Act 1861 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).
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