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India-related events in the year 1888
Events in the year 1888 in India.
Incumbents
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
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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).
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