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See also: 1860 in India, other events of 1861, 1862 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

[edit] Events

• Boys' High School & College, Allahabad is founded.
• The Indian Police Act 1861 is passed and a force created to protect and perpetuate colonial rule in the country. Indian civil and criminal codes were enacted. (Lord Macaulay had drafted the Indian Penal Code in 1835).

[edit] Births

• 7 May - Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (d.1941).
• 24 September - Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner (d.1936).

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• Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (d.1913).