1876 in India

Events in the year 1876 in India.

Incumbents

 * Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy
 * Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy (from 12 April)

Events

 * National income - ₹3,887 million
 * Queen Victoria is proclaimed "Empress of India" and transfers powers from East India Company to the British Crown.
 * Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health was set up as Tezpur Lunatic Asylum in April, 1876.

Law

 * Royal Titles Act (British statute)
 * Customs Consolidation Act (British statute)
 * Slave Trade Act (British statute)
 * Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enactments) Act (British statute)

Births

 * 15 September – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (d. 1938).
 * 25 December – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Statesman and founder of Pakistan (d. 1948).