1888 in India

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin
• Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

  Events

• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi left to study in London.
• Sree Narayana Guru, consecrated the FIRST EVER temple for the untouchables in Aruvippuram, Kerala, South India.

  Births

• 17 January – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian.
• 5 September – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India.
• 7 November – C. V. Raman, physicist, awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 11 November – J. B. Kripalani, Freedom Fighter, Congress President.
• 11 November – Abul Kalam Azad, Freedom Fighter.

  Deaths