1894 in India

Events in the year 1894 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
 * Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (from 11 October)

Events

 * National income - ₹4,869 million
 * Punjab National Bank was founded by Lala Lajpat Rai

Law

 * Prisons Act
 * Land Acquisition Act

Births

 * 1 January – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (d.1974).
 * 21 February – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist (d.1955).
 * 25 February – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (d.1969).
 * 10 April – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (d.1983).
 * 20 May – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam (d.1994).
 * 3 December – Deiva Zivarattinam, politician (d. 1975)

Full date unknown

 * A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (d.1965).