← 1887 1886 1885 1888 in India → 1889 1890 1891
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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1888 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin
• Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (from 10 December)

Events

• National income - ₹4,773 million
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi left to study in London.
• Sree Narayana Guru, consecrated the first temple for the untouchables in Aruvippuram, Kerala, South India.

Law

• Indian Reserve Forces Act^[1]

Births

• 17 January – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian (d.1963).
• 21 April - Charu Chandra Biswas,.
• 5 September – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (d.1975).
• 7 November – C. V. Raman, physicist, awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics (d.1970).
• 11 November – J. B. Kripalani, Freedom Fighter, Congress President (d. 1982).
• 11 November – Abul Kalam Azad, Freedom Fighter (d.1958).
• 16 December – Harold Papworth, British educator, college principal and Indian civil service officer (d. 1953)
• unknown date – Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi, freedom fighter and first general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. (d. 1959).