1885 in India
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{{Year in India|1885}}
Events in the year 1885 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria{{cite web |title=W & D Downey & Co.: London - Queen Victoria (1819–1901) as Empress of India |url=https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2105735/queen-victoria-1819-1901-as-empress-of-india |website=royalcollection.org.uk |access-date=17 June 2018 |language=en}}
- Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin{{cite book |last1=Kaminsky |first1=Arnold P. |last2=Long |first2=Roger D. |title=Nationalism and Imperialism in South and Southeast Asia: Essays Presented to Damodar R.SarDesai |date=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781351997430 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154|language=en}}
Events
- National income – {{INR}} 3,991 million
- 24 June – Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.
- 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).
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