1883 in India
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{{Year in India|1883}}
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 – {{INR}} 4,213 million
- 15 September – Bombay Natural History Society founded
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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).
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