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List of years in India
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Events in the year 1885 in India.

Incumbents

Empress of India – Queen Victoria^[1]
Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin^[2]

Events

National income - ₹3,991 million
24 June – Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.^[2]
28 December – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay to form the Congress Party.
First President of Indian National Congress – W. C. Banerjee; First Secretary of Indian National Congress – A. O. Hume; Dadabbhai Naoroji gave the name Indian National Congress

Law

Indian Telegraph Act
Land Acquisition (Mines) Act
East India Unclaimed Stock Act (British statute)
East India Loan Act (British statute)
Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act (British statute)
Evidence By Commission Act (British statute)

Births

14 February – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (died 1949).

References

^ "W & D Downey & Co.: London - Queen Victoria (1819–1901) as Empress of India". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
^ ^a ^b Kaminsky, Arnold P.; Long, Roger D. (2016). Nationalism and Imperialism in South and Southeast Asia: Essays Presented to Damodar R.SarDesai. Taylor & Francis. p. 154. ISBN 9781351997430.

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