Events in the year 1896 in India.
Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
Events 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. Bombay plague epidemic killed thousands A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897
Laws Malabar Marriage Act, 1896
Births 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).
Full date unknown Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (died 1982).
Deaths 9 January – Dinkar Rao, statesman dies (born 1819)
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