1877 in India

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.
 * 1877 – Kutch Museum was founded.
 * 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).