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Events in the year 1883 in India.

Incumbents

Empress of India – Queen Victoria
Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

Events

National income – ₹ 4,213 million
15 September – Bombay Natural History Society founded
The Calcutta International Exhibition world's fair was held from the end of 1883 to March 1884^[1]

Law

9 February – Viceroy Lord Ripon's partial reversal of the Ilbert Bill (1883), a legislative measure that had proposed putting Indian judges in the Bengal Presidency on equal footing with British ones, that transformed the discontent into political action.
Land Improvement Loans Act

Births

Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar, Marathi writer (d. 1964).

Deaths

17 February – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b.1845).

References

^ "National and International Exhibitions Covered by the Science Museum Library Collections". Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.

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