1883 in India

Events in the year 1883 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon

Events

 * National income – ₹ 4,213 million
 * 15 September – Bombay Natural History Society founded
 * The Calcutta International Exhibition world's fair was held from the end of 1883 to March 1884

Law

 * 9 February – Viceroy Lord Ripon's partial reversal of the Ilbert Bill (1883), a legislative measure that had proposed putting Indian judges in the Bengal Presidency on equal footing with British ones, that transformed the discontent into political action.
 * Land Improvement Loans Act

Births

 * Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar, Marathi writer (d. 1964).

Deaths

 * 17 February – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b.1845).