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See also: 1876 in India, other events of 1877, 1878 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

[edit] Events

• Queen Victoria is made the Empress of India. This led to great celebrations in Darbars in India while millions of Indians perished in the famine that was going on then.

[edit] Births

• 24 November - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police (d.1941).

[edit] Deaths

• 30 August - Toru Dutt, poet (b.1856).

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