1861 in India
Events in the year 1861 'in India':
Incumbents
Events
- Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded.
- The Delhi Department of Police is founded.
Law
- Indian Councils Act 1861
- Indian Civil Services Act
- Indian High Courts Act
- Police Act
- Stage-Carriages Act
- Foreign Law Ascertainment Act
- East India Loan Act
- Malicious Damages Act
- Wills Act
- Domicile Act
Births
- 27 January: Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri, Sufi, saint, healer.
- 6 May: Motilal Nehru.
- 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer.
- 18 June: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi.
- 18 July:Kadambini Ganguly, first female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent.
- 2 Aug: Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray..
- 21 Sept: Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
- 24 Sep: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner.