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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1899 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
- Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (from 6 January)
Events
Indian Stamp Act of 1899.
Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission at Calcutta on 1st May.
Births
- 15 February – Mani Madhava Chakyar, master Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist (died 1990).
- 10 October – Baldev Upadhyaya, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic (died 1999).
Full date unknown
Deaths
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Notable Works
- 31 December - The Sunset of the Century written by Rabindranath Tagore.
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