1896 in India

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Events in the year 1896 in India.

Incumbents

National income - ₹5,333 million
3 September - Nearly 13,176 members of Ezhava community led by Padmanabhan Palpu submits a petition for rights named Ezhava Memorial before Moolam Thirunal of Travancore.^[1]
Bombay plague epidemic killed thousands^[2]
A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897^[3]

29 January – Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder - Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941)
29 February – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1995).
1 September – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977).
27 October – Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (died 1974).

^ Iyer, Meera. "Palpu: A doctor, activist who fought the plague and the caste system". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
^ Echenberg, Myron J. (2007). Plague ports : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0814722329. OCLC 70292105.
^ Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III 1907, p. 490
^ Kodoth, Praveena (May 2001). "Courting Legitimacy or Delegitimizing Custom? Sexuality, Sambandham and Marriage Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Malabar". Modern Asian Studies. 35 (2): 350. doi:10.1017/s0026749x01002037. JSTOR 313121. PMID 18481401. S2CID 7910533.(subscription required)

Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III (1907), The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502), Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552.

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