1898 in India

Events in the year 1898 in India

Incumbents

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

Events

 * National income - ₹6,227 million
 * Frontier War of 1897–98

Law

 * Code Of Criminal Procedure
 * Indian Post Office Act
 * Live-stock Importation Act

Births

 * 1 January – Binay Ranjan Sen, diplomat, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (died 1993).
 * 13 January – Samsa, playwright, poet and novelist (died 1939).
 * 19 January – Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (died 1976).
 * 5 August – Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai, Tamil Carnatic music violinist (died 1970).
 * 21 November – Rang Avadhoot, saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord Dattatreya, (died 1968).
 * 25 November – Debaki Bose, film director, writer and actor (died 1971).
 * 2 December – Indra Lal Roy, World War I flying ace, killed in action (died 1918).

Deaths

 * 1 October – Manilal Dwivedi (b. 1858), regarded as one of the most influential Gujarati writer and thinker, died at premature age, 40.
 * March 27, SA(Syed Ahmed)Khan (Islamist scholar, Founder of Two Nations Theory), Aligarh.
 * June 27, Dwarkanath Ganguly, a great social reformer and husband of Kadambini Ganguly died. According to the sources, he was suffering from Hepatitis.