1888 in India
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Events in the year 1888 in India.
Incumbents
- Empress of India — Queen Victoria
- Viceroy of India - The Earl of Dufferin
- Viceroy of India - Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (from 10 December)
Events
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi left to study in London.
- Sree Narayana Guru, consecrated the FIRST EVER temple for the untouchables in Aruvippuram, Kerala, South India.
Births
- 17 January — Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian (d.1963).
- 5 September — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (d.1975).
- 7 November — C. V. Raman, physicist, awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics (d.1970).
- 11 November - J. B. Kripalani, Freedom Fighter, Congress President (d. 1982).
- 11 November - Abul Kalam Azad, Freedom Fighter (d.1922).
Deaths
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