Events in the year 1894 in India.
Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (from 11 October)
Events National income - 4,869 million Punjab National Bank was founded by Lala Lajpat Rai
Law Prisons Act Land Acquisition Act
Births 1 January – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (d.1974). 21 February – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist (d.1955). 25 February – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (d.1969). 10 April – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (d.1983). 20 May – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam (d.1994). 3 December – Deiva Zivarattinam, politician (d. 1975)
Full date unknown A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (d.1965). References