Template:Year in India Events in the year 1879 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India – Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Events
- The Bombay Dyeing & Mfg. Co. Ltd., a textile company, established
Births
- K. N. Sivaraja Pillai (1879–1941) Indian historian, dravidologist and professor (d. 1941).
- Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) Indian political activist and poet
- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy (1879-1973) Indian social activist and politician