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See also:

List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1842 in India.

Incumbents

The Earl of Ellenborough, Governor-General, 1842-44.^[1]

Events

1st Afghan War, 1837-42.^[2]

Law

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Births

16 January – Mahadev Govind Ranade, judge, author and reformer (died 1901).

Deaths

Undated
- William Francis Thompson, British India civil servant, magistrate and philologist^[3]

References

^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 264
^ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 261
^ University of Toronto, Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, online at: https://jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/author/details/thompson-william-francis/21590.

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