1888 in India

Events in the year 1888 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin
 * Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (from 10 December)

Events

 * National income - ₹4,773 million
 * Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi left to study in London.
 * Sree Narayana Guru, consecrated the first temple for the untouchables in Aruvippuram, Kerala, South India.

Law

 * Indian Reserve Forces Act

Births

 * 17 January – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian (d.1963).
 * 21 April - Charu Chandra Biswas,.
 * 5 September – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (d.1975).
 * 7 November – C. V. Raman, physicist, awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics (d.1970).
 * 11 November – J. B. Kripalani, Freedom Fighter, Congress President (d. 1982).
 * 11 November – Abul Kalam Azad, Freedom Fighter (d.1958).
 * 16 December – Harold Papworth, British educator, college principal and Indian civil service officer (d. 1953)
 * unknown date – Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi, freedom fighter and first general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. (d. 1959).