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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|India-related events in the year 1896}}<br />
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{{Year in India|1896}}<br />
Events in the year '''1896 in India'''.<br />
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==Incumbents==<br />
* [[Emperor of India|Empress of India]] – [[Queen Victoria]]<br />
* Viceroy of India – [[Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin]]<br />
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==Events==<br />
* In [[Bombay plague epidemic]] [[bubonic plague]] killed thousands<br />
* A [[Indian famine of 1896–97|famine]] started in [[Bundelkhand]] and continued into 1897<br />
* The [[Malabar Marriage Act, 1896]] was passed<br />
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==Births==<br />
*29 January – [[Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj]], founder-, Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941 <br />
*29 February – [[Morarji Desai]], independence activist and 6th [[Prime Minister of India]] (died [[1995 in India|1995]]).<br />
*1 September – [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], founder-acharya of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]] (died [[1977 in India|1977]]).<br />
*27 October – [[Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya]], scholar of [[Sanskrit]] (died [[1974 in India|1974]]).<br />
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*[[Firaq Gorakhpuri]], poet (died [[1982 in India|1982]]).<br />
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==Deaths==<br />
* 9 January – [[Dinkar Rao]], statesman dies (born [[1819 in India|1819]])<br />
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