1841 in India
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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1841 in India.
Incumbents[edit]
- The Earl of Auckland, Governor-General, 1836-42.[1]
- Nicol Alexander Dalzell, assistant commissioner of customs in Bombay
Events[edit]
- Sino-Sikh War, May 1841 to August 1842, General Zorawar Singh Kahluria of the Sikh Empire invaded Qing Tibet
- First Anglo-Afghan War, 1837-1842[2]
- Missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Wales found the Presbyterian Church in India in the Khasi Hills in northeast India[3]
- Johann Christian Freidrich Heyer, Lutheran minister in America, becomes the first Lutheran Missionary from America to visit India
- 52nd Regiment of Foot comes to India from Australia
- Loreto Sisters come to India and build schools
- British India Society begins publishing British Indian Advocate
Births[edit]
- Frederick William Spring, British Army officer and military historian
- Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh, one of the founders of the All India Muslim League
Deaths[edit]
- Zorawar Singh Kahluria, the "Napoleon of India," who invaded Tibet in the Sino-Sikh War
- Ranchhodji Diwan, chief minister of Junagadh state
- Prithvi Singh Deo, raja of Sonepur State
- Nahar Singh, raja of Sailana State
References[edit]
- ↑ William Freke Williams and William Cooke Stafford (1863). England's Battles by Sea and Land: History of England's campaigns in India and China; and of the Indian mutiny, 1857-1859. Printing and publishing company. p. 301.
- ↑ Everyman's Dictionary of Dates; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 261
- ↑ Erwin Fahlbusch and Geoffrey William Bromiley, The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4, Eerdmans, 2005, ISBN 0-8028-2416-1, p. 538.