Events in the year 1879 in India.
Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Events National income - 4,083 million The Bombay Dyeing & Mfg. Co. Ltd., a textile company, established
Law Elephants' Preservation Act Legal Practitioners Act Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act (British statute) Indian Guaranteed Railways Act (British statute) East Indian Railway (Redemption of Annuities) Act (British statute) East India Loan Act (British statute)
Births K. N. Sivaraja Pillai (1879–1941) Indian historian, dravidologist and professor (d. 1941). Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian political activist and poet Periyar E.V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Indian social activist and politician
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