1877 in India
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Events in the year 1877 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Events
- Celebrations in darbars are held in India now that Queen Victoria is Empress of India.
- 1 July[citation needed] 1877 – Kutch Museum was founded.[1]
- Gilgit Agency was formed.
- First suspension bridge in India was opened in Punalur, Travancore (now in Kerala).
- Jowaki Expedition against the Afridi tribe.
Law
- Limitation Act
- East India Loan Act (British statute)
- Code Of Civil Procedure
Births
- 2 November – Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, The Founders and the First Permanent President of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). (Death, 11 July 1957).
- 9 November – Sir, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, The Poet of The East, Presenter of the Idea of Pakistan (died, 21 April 1938 in Lahore, Pakistan).
- 24 November – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).
