1880 in India
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Events in the year 1880 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
- Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (from 8 June)
Events
Law
- Religious Societies Act
- Kazis Act
- East India Loan (East Indian Railway Debentures) Act (British statute)
- India Stock (Powers of Attorney) Act (British statute)
Births
- 16 March – Rajshekhar Basu, writer, chemist and lexicographer (died 27 April 1960).
- 31 July – Munshi Premchand, foremost Writer in Hindu-Urdu Literature and Indian Freedom fighter (died 8 October 1936).
- Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad, scholar, freedom fighter and founder of Muslim Independent Party (died 1940).
