1898 in India

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Events in the year 1898 in India

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

Events

• Frontier War of 1897–98
• Muslim Separatism in Post-Revolt India albeit Aligarh movement post Revolt of 1857
• Introduction of INDIAN POST OFFICE ACT, 1898

Births

• 19 January – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (died 1976).
• 21 November – Shri Rang Avadhoot, Saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord Dattatreya, (died 1968 in India)
• 25 November – Debaki Bose, film director, writer and actor (died 1971).
• 2 December – Indra Lal Roy, World War I flying ace, killed in action (died 1918).

Deaths

• 1 October – Manilal Dwivedi (b. 1858), regarded as one of the most influential Gujarati writer and thinker, died at premature age, 40.
• March 27, SA(Syed Ahmed)Khan (Islamist scholar, Founder of Two Nations Theory), Aligarh.
• June 27, Dwarkanath Ganguly , a great social reformer and husband of Kadambini Ganguly died. According to the sources, he was suffering from Hepatitis.

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