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1896 in India

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Events in the year 1896 in India.

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

• National income - ₹5,333 million
• 3 September - Nearly 13,176 members of Ezhava community led by Padmanabhan Palpu submits a petition for rights named Ezhava Memorial before Moolam ThirunalofTravancore.^[1]
• Bombay plague epidemic killed thousands^[2]
• Afamine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897^[3]

• Malabar Marriage Act, 1896^[4]

• 29 January – Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder - Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941)
• 29 February – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1995).
• 1 September – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977).
• 27 October – Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (died 1974).

• Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (died 1982).

• 9 January – Dinkar Rao, statesman dies (born 1819)

• Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III (1907), The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502), Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552.

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