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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1896 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
Events
- In Bombay plague epidemic bubonic plague killed thousands
- A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897
- The Malabar Marriage Act, 1896 was passed
Births
- 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).
Full date unknown
- Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (died 1982).
Deaths
- 9 January – Dinkar Rao, statesman dies (born 1819)
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