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See also:	List of years in India Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year1898 in India

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

• National income -₹6,227 million
• Frontier War of 1897–98^[1]

• Code Of Criminal Procedure
• Indian Post Office Act^[2]
• Live-stock Importation Act^[3]

• 1 January –Binay Ranjan Sen, diplomat, Director General of theFood and Agriculture Organization (died1993).
• 11 January –Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (died1976).
• 13 January –Samsa, playwright, poet and novelist (died1939).
• 5 August –Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai, Tamil Carnatic music violinist (died1970).
• 21 November –Rang Avadhoot, saint who is regarded as an incarnation of LordDattatreya, (died1968).
• 25 November –Debaki Bose, film director, writer and actor (died1971).
• 2 December –Indra Lal Roy,World War Iflying ace, killed in action (died1918).

• I. K. Taimni, chemist (died1978).

• 1 October –Manilal Dwivedi (b. 1858), regarded as one of the most influentialGujarati 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.

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