1880 in India

Events in the year 1880 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
 * Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (from 8 June)

Events

 * National income - ₹4,025 million
 * 18 September – 151 people were buried in a landslip at Naini Tal following 36 inch of rain in 68 hours.

Law

 * Religious Societies Act
 * Kazis Act
 * East India Loan (East Indian Railway Debentures) Act (British statute)
 * India Stock (Powers of Attorney) Act (British statute)

Births

 * 16 March – Rajshekhar Basu, writer, chemist and lexicographer (died 27 April 1960).
 * 31 July – Munshi Premchand, foremost Writer in Hindu-Urdu Literature and Indian Freedom fighter (died 8 October 1936).
 * Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad, scholar, freedom fighter and founder of Muslim Independent Party (died 1940).