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Events in the year 1875 in India.

Incumbents

  • Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy

Events

  • National income - ₹3,628 million
  • India Meteorology Department was established on 15 January.
  • Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh (now Uttar Pradesh); later became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.
  • Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, arrives in British India, on an official visit representing his mother Queen Victoria, the Empress of India, remaining there until the following year.
  • 8 November – The Prince of Wales visits Bombay. Establishment of Arya SAMAJ
  • 10 April - The Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
  • 9 July - Bombay Stock Exchange known as BSE, Indian stock market was founded

Law

  • Majority Act
  • Tolls On Roads & Bridges Act

Births

  • 31 October – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, political and social leader (died 1950).
  • 22 December – Nanda Kishore Bal, poet (died 1928).

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