Events in the year 1820 in India.
Events National income - ₹11,684 million June 10 – Sir Thomas Munro is appointed as the British colonial Governor of the Madras Presidency, which encompasses most of southern India.T. H. Beaglehole, Thomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras 1792-1818 (Cambridge University Press, 1966) p121
Law Divorce Bills Evidence Act (British statute)
Births
26 September – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the "Father of Bengali prose", educator and social reformer (died 1891)
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