1899 in India

Events in the year 1899 in India.

Incumbents

 * Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 * Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin
 * Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (from 6 January)

Events

 * National income - ₹6,715 million
 * 4 January - Fire from a quarantined Indian made vessel gutted 300 homes and numerous British owned factories in Fort Kochi.
 * 1 May - Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission at Calcutta.
 * 6 June - Sivakasi riots of 1899 between Nadar and Maravar communities.
 * 31 December - The Sunset of the Century written by Rabindranath Tagore.

Dates unknown

 * Indian famine of 1899–1900

Law

 * Indian Stamp Act
 * Government Buildings Act
 * Glanders and Farcy Act

Births

 * 15 February – Mani Madhava Chakyar, master Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist (died 1990).
 * 10 October – Baldev Upadhyaya, Sanskrit scholar, literary historian, essayist and critic (died 1999).
 * 26 December - Udham Singh, freedom fighter (died 1940).
 * 30 March - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, an unparalleled Bengali story writer, novelist and a pioneer in the genre of historical fiction in Bengali literature.

Full date unknown

 * Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (died 1979).