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{{Year in India|1854}}
Events in the year '''1854 in India'''.

==Incumbents==
*[[James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie]], [[Governor-General of India]], 1848 to 1856
*Vyankatrao I Raje Ghorpade, Raja of [[Mudhol State]], 20 February 1818-December 1854
*Balwantrao Raje Ghorpade, Raja of Mudhol State, December 1854-27 March 1862
*Thakur Sahib Akherajji IV Bhavsimhji, Rajput of [[Bhavnagar State]], 1852–1854
*Thakur Sahib Jashwantsimhji Bhavsimhji, Rajput of Bhavnagar State, 1854–11 April 1870
*[[Muhammad Said Khan]], [[Nawab of Rampur]] from 1840 to 1855, died on 1 April
*[[Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan]], Nawab of the Carnatic, 1825-1855

==Events==
* March– The [[British Raj]] annexed [[Jhansi]], Lakshmibai was given a pension of Rs. 60,000 and ordered to leave the palace and the fort.
*The [[British Raj]] annexed [[Jhansi]], [[Nagpur]], and [[Oudh]] and began annexing [[Udaipur State, Chhattisgarh]]
*Nagpur became the administrative division of [[Chota Nagpur Division]]
*[[Bhopal Agency]] was absorbed into the [[Central India Agency]]
*The British medal first issued the [[India General Service Medal (1854)]] to exceptional British and Indian soldiers
*[[Calcutta]] [[Survey of India|Survey]] first issued [[Inverted Head 4 Annas]] [[postage stamp]]s
*[[Dalhousie, India]], a hill station in [[Himachal Pradesh]], was established by the [[British Empire]]'s government in India as a summer retreat for its troops and officials
*[[Howrah Junction railway station]] was opened
*The first train ran on [[Eastern Railway zone]] between [[Howrah Station|Howrah]] and [[Hugli-Chinsura|Hooghly]] on 15 August
*The Dalhousie administration formally dissolved [[Fort William College]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://a-bangladesh.com/banglapedia/HT/F_0170.htm|title=Fort William College|last=Islam|first=Sirajul|work=Banglapedia|publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh|access-date=2016-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928042125/http://a-bangladesh.com/banglapedia/HT/F_0170.htm|archive-date=2007-09-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The [[East India Company]] formed the [[107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)|3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry]] which later helped suppress the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]
*[[Woodstock School]], a Christian, international, co-educational, residential school located in [[Landour]], a small [[hill station]] contiguous with the town of [[Mussoorie]], [[Uttarakhand]], was established
*[[Government College of Art & Craft]], one of the oldest art colleges in India, was established on 16 August at Garanhata, [[Chitpur]]
*[[Government Arts College, Kumbakonam]] was established on 19 October in [[Kumbakonam]] in [[Tamil Nadu]]
*[[Happy Valley Tea Estate]], a [[Tea garden (cultivation)|tea garden]] in [[Darjeeling district]] in the [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]], was established
*Parliament's Act XXXIV of 1854, India's first Telegraph Act, set up the public telegraph in 1855
*[[Khana railway station]] was established
*The portion of the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] from Tannah to [[Kalyan, India|Callian]] was opened on May 1
*[[Dadabhai Naoroji]] founded a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] fortnightly publication, the ''[[Rast Goftar]]'' ('The Truth Teller'), to clarify Zoroastrian concepts and promote Parsi social reforms<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Ralph J. Crane|editor2=Radhika Mohanram|title=Shifting continents/colliding cultures : diaspora writing of the Indian subcontinent|date=2000|publisher=Rodopi|location=Amsterdam|isbn=9042012617|page=62|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=on1uZNcdsScC&q=dadabhai+naoroji%2C+gujarati&pg=PA62}}</ref>
*[[Alexander Cunningham]], a British army engineer with the [[Bengal Engineer Group]], published ''LADĀK: Physical, Statistical, and Historical with Notices of the Surrounding Countries''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ladakphysicalsta00cunnrich|title = Ladak, physical, statistical, and historical ; with notices of the surrounding countries|year = 1854}}</ref>
*[[Nathan Brown (missionary)|Nathan Brown]], an American missionary, published খ্রীষ্টৰ বিবৰণ আৰু শুভ বাৰ্তা, ''Jesus Christ and his Holy Messages''
*[[Prinsep|William Prinsep]] sold [[Belvedere Estate]] to the East India Company

==Births==
*[[Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah]], anti-British Indian [[revolutionary]] with sympathy for the [[Pan-Islamic movement]], born on 7 July at Itwra Mohalla, [[Bhopal]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]]
*[[John Frederick McCrea]], a South African recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], born on 2 April 1854 in [[Madras, India|Madras]]
*[[Matilda Smith]], botanical artist whose work appeared in ''[[Curtis's Botanical Magazine]]'' for over forty years<ref>[[Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|Ogilvie, Marilyn]], and [[Joy Harvey]]. ''The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century''. Routledge, 2003.</ref>
*[[Isabel Cooper-Oakley]], a prominent [[Theosophical Society|Theosophist]] and author, born on 31 January in [[Amritsar]]
*[[Arthur Anthony Macdonell]], a noted [[Sanskrit]] scholar, born on 11 May in [[Muzaffarpur]]
*[[Richmond Ritchie]], a British civil servant, born in Calcutta
*[[Vasudevanand Saraswati]], Saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord [[Dattatreya]], born on 13 August in [[Sindhudurg]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]

==Deaths==
*[[Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain]], [[British Army]] officer who served as [[Adjutant-General (India)|Adjutant-General in India]], died on 8 February 1854 in Fatehgarh
*Vyankatrao I Raje Ghorpade, Raja of the [[Mudhol State]]
*Thakur Sahib Akherajji IV Bhavsimhji, Rajput of [[Bhavnagar State]]

==References==
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