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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year1855 inIndia.

• James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie,Governor-General of India, 1848 to 1856
• Muhammad Said Khan,Nawab of Rampur from 1840 to 1855, died on 1 April
• Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic, 1825–1855
• Balwantrao Raje Ghorpade, Raja of Mudhol State, December 1854-27 March 1862
• Thakur Sahib Jashwantsimhji Bhavsimhji, Rajput of Bhavnagar State, 1854–11 April 1870

• 30 June -Santhal rebellion against British rule inDamin-i-koh,Bengal Presidency.^[1]
• The British annexedThanjavur Maratha kingdom
• Dinavartamani was established inMadras as a weeklyTamil-Telugu paper
• Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway was incorporated to undertake the task of constructing a railway line betweenBombay andVadodara
• Rani Rashmoni funded construction of theDakshineswar Kali Temple inDakshineswar nearKolkata
• Central Museum of Natural History, Economy, Geology, Industry and Arts was established in Bombay
• Napier Museum, an art and natural history museum situated inThiruvananthapuram, was established
• Madras Zoo opened
• Narayan Jagannath High School, the first government school established inSindh, was established inKerachi
• William Healey Dall moved to India to work as a missionary

• Legal Representatives Suits Act
• Fatal Accidents Act

• G. Subramania Iyer, leading Indian journalist, social reformer and freedom fighter who foundedThe Hindu, born on 19 January in Tiruvadi,Tanjore district
• A. Subbarayalu Reddiar, a landlord, Justice Party leader and Chief Minister or Premier of Madras Presidency from 17 December 1920 to 11 July 1921, born on 15 October in Madras
• N. G. Chandavarkar, born on 2 December inHonavar in theBombay Presidency
• Sudhakar Dwivedi, Indian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics, born in Khajuri, a village nearVaranasi
• Hakim Abdul Aziz, prominentUnani physician, born inLucknow
• Govind Ballal Deval, aMarathi playwright fromMaharashtra
• Kottarathil Sankunni, author ofMalayalam literature, was born on 23 March inKottayam,Travancore
• Rashid-un-Nisa, first Indian women Urdu Novelist.

• Henry Valentine Conolly, British administrator in southern India, murdered by Moplah (Mappila - Muslim) insurgents at Collector's Residence at West Hill Bungalow, Calicut on 11 September
• Muhammad Said Khan,Nawab of Rampur from 1840 to 1855, died on 1 April
• Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic
• Mahmud Gami, introduced in Kashmiri the Persian forms of the masnavi and ghazal

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