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Events in the year 1877 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Events

• Celebrations in darbars are held in India now that Queen Victoria is Empress of India.
• 1 JulyCategory:All articles with unsourced statementsCategory:Articles with unsourced statements from March 2014^{[citation needed]} 1877 – Kutch Museum was founded.^[1]
• Gilgit Agency was formed.
• First suspension bridge in India was opened in Punalur, Travancore (now in Kerala).
• Jowaki Expedition against the Afridi tribe.

Law

• Limitation Act
• East India Loan Act (British statute)
• Code Of Civil Procedure

Births

• 2 November – Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, The Founders and the First Permanent President of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). (Death, 11 July 1957).
• 9 November – Sir, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, The Poet of The East, Presenter of the Idea of Pakistan (died, 21 April 1938 in Lahore, Pakistan).
• 24 November – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).

Deaths

• 30 August – Toru Dutt, poet (b.1856).

See also

References

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