1798 in India

Events in the year 1798 in India.

Incumbents

 * Sir Alured Clarke, Governor-General, 1798
 * Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General, 1798–1805.

Events

 * National income - ₹11,131 million
 * The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins.

Births

 * 10 November – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (died 1884).