1885 in India

Events in the year 1885 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin

Events

 * National income - ₹3,991 million
 * 24 June – Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India.
 * 28 December – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay to form the Congress Party.
 * First President of Indian National Congress – W. C. Banerjee; First Secretary of Indian National Congress – A. O. Hume; Dadabbhai Naoroji gave the name Indian National Congress

Law

 * Indian Telegraph Act
 * Land Acquisition (Mines) Act
 * East India Unclaimed Stock Act (British statute)
 * East India Loan Act (British statute)
 * Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act (British statute)
 * Evidence By Commission Act (British statute)

Births

 * 14 February – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Muslim philosopher (died 1949).