1889 in India

Events in the year 1889 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
 * Nawab of Rampur — Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur

Events

 * Phulmoni Dasi rape case, case involving the death of a 10-year-old child bride which resulted in legal reforms on the age of consent
 * 14 November — Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, offensive on the tribes of the Chin and Lushai Hills

Law

 * Commissioners For Oaths Act (British statute)
 * Interpretation Act 1889 (British statute)

Births

 * 30 January — Jaishankar Prasad, writer and dramatist (d. 1937)
 * 28 February — Babu Chotelal Shrivastava, independence fighter (d. 1976)
 * 1 March — Gopi Chand Bhargava, first Chief Minister of Punjab (d. 1966)
 * 1 April — Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, founder of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) (f. 1925), social reformer and political activist (d. 1940)
 * 4 April — Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Chhayavad writer (d. 1968)
 * 1 July — Benegal Rama Rau, fourth governor of the Reserve Bank of India (d. 1968)
 * 5 August — Muzaffar Ahmad, communist politician and journalist (d. 1973)
 * 16 August — Prabhu Dayal Himatsingka, Indian National Congress politician (d. 1991)
 * 3 September — Sadhu Sundar Singh, Christian missionary (d. 1929)
 * 6 September — Sarat Chandra Bose, barrister and independence activist (d. 1950)
 * 4 November — Jamnalal Bajaj, politician and industrialist (d. 1942)
 * 14 November — Jawaharlal Nehru, politician and 1st Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)
 * 3 December — Kshudiram Bose, independence fighter and martyr (d. 1908)
 * 7 December — Radhakamal Mukerjee, social scientist (d. 1968)
 * 23 December — Mehr Chand Mahajan, third Chief Justice of India (d. 1967)
 * 25 December — Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, leader of the All-India Muslim League (d. 1973)

Full date unknown

 * Shapoorji Mistry, businessman (d. 19??)
 * Rafiq Ahmed, communist activist (d. 1982)
 * Keshavrao Date, actor (d. 1971).
 * Amar Nath Kak, lawyer and author (d. 1963).
 * Bhai Balmukund, independence fighter and member of the 1912 Delhi conspiracy (d. 1915)

Organization foundations

 * Anyonya Co-operative Bank, Vadodora bank
 * Delhi Cloth & General Mills, textile conglomerate
 * KRBL Limited, rice company
 * Mohun Bagan A.C., sports club

Deaths

 * 14 December — Tantia Bhil, independence fighter (b. 1842)