1899 in India

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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

• National income - ₹6,832 million
• Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission at Calcutta on 1 May.
• 31 December - The Sunset of the Century written by Rabindranath Tagore.

Law

• Indian Stamp Act
• Government Buildings Act
• Glanders and Farcy Act

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

• Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (died 1979).