1896 in India

Events in the year 1896 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

Events

 * National income - ₹5,333 million
 * 3 September - Nearly 13,176 members of Ezhava community led by Padmanabhan Palpu submits a petition for rights named Ezhava Memorial before Moolam Thirunal of Travancore.
 * Bombay plague epidemic killed thousands
 * A famine started in Bundelkhand and continued into 1897

Laws

 * Malabar Marriage Act, 1896

Births

 * 29 January – Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj, founder - Bharat Sevashram Sangha (attained Samadhi on 8 January 1941)
 * 29 February – Morarji Desai, independence activist and 6th Prime Minister of India (died 1995).
 * 1 September – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977).
 * 27 October – Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya, scholar of Sanskrit (died 1974).

Full date unknown

 * Firaq Gorakhpuri, poet (died 1982).

Deaths

 * 9 January – Dinkar Rao, statesman dies (born 1819)