1884 in India

Events in the year 1884 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
 * Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin (from 13 December)

Events

 * National income - ₹4,056 million
 * The Webb case – District magistrate of Assam dismisses most charges against Charles Webb, who sexually assaulted and killed a female tea plantation worker; case galvanises public opinion against colonial rule

Law

 * Explosives Act
 * Colonial Prisoners Removal Act (British statute)
 * Naval Discipline Act (British statute)
 * Criminal Lunatics Act (British statute)
 * Indian Marine Service Act (British statute)

Births

 * 27 July - Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 23 October 1951)
 * March – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (d.1960).
 * 7 November – Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian (d.1967).
 * 22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (d.1953).

Deaths

 * 12 December – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (b.1798).