1861 in India

Events in the year 1862

in India:

Incumbents

 * Charles Canning, Viceroy

Events

 * Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded.
 * The Delhi Department of Police is founded.

Law

 * Indian Councils Act 1861
 * Indian Civil Services Act
 * Indian High Courts Act
 * Police Act
 * Stage-Carriages Act
 * Foreign Law Ascertainment Act (British statute)
 * East India Loan Act (British statute)
 * Malicious Damages Act (British statute)
 * Wills Act (British statute)
 * Domicile Act (British statute)

Births

 * 27 January: Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri, Sufi, saint, healer (died 1925).
 * 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (died 1941).
 * 24 September: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (died 1936).
 * Date unknown: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (died 1913).
 * 18 July:Kadambini Ganguly, first female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent (died 1923).