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{{Year in India|1885}}<br />
Events in the year '''1885 in India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[Emperor of India|Empress of India]] – [[Queen Victoria]]<ref>{{cite web |title=W & D Downey & Co.: London - Queen Victoria (1819–1901) as Empress of India |url=https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2105735/queen-victoria-1819-1901-as-empress-of-india |website=royalcollection.org.uk |access-date=17 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref><br />
* Viceroy of India – [[Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava|The Earl of Dufferin]]<ref name=Kaminsky>{{cite book |last1=Kaminsky |first1=Arnold P. |last2=Long |first2=Roger D. |title=Nationalism and Imperialism in South and Southeast Asia: Essays Presented to Damodar R.SarDesai |date=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781351997430 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Events==<br />
* National income – {{INR}} 3,991 million<br />
* 24 June – [[Lord Randolph Churchill]] becomes [[Secretary of State for India]].<ref name=Kaminsky /><br />
* 28 December – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay to form the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]].<br />
*First President of Indian National Congress – W. C. Banerjee; First Secretary of Indian National Congress – A. O. Hume; Dadabbhai Naoroji gave the name Indian National Congress<br />
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==Law==<br />
*Indian Telegraph Act<br />
*Land Acquisition (Mines) Act<br />
*East India Unclaimed Stock Act (British statute)<br />
*East India Loan Act (British statute)<br />
*Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act (British statute)<br />
*Evidence By Commission Act (British statute)<br />
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==Births==<br />
*14 February – [[Syed Zafarul Hasan]], Muslim [[philosopher]] (died 1949).<br />
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