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Events in the year 1883 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

Events

• National income – ₹ 4,213 million
• 15 September – Bombay Natural History Society founded
• The Calcutta International Exhibition world's fair was held from the end of 1883 to March 1884^[1]

Law

• 9 February – Viceroy Lord Ripon's partial reversal of the Ilbert Bill (1883), a legislative measure that had proposed putting Indian judges in the Bengal Presidency on equal footing with British ones, that transformed the discontent into political action.
• Land Improvement Loans Act

Births

• Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar, Marathi writer (d. 1964).

Deaths

• 17 February – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b.1845).

References