Events in the year 1884 in India.
Incumbents
Empress of India – Queen Victoria
Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin (from 13 December)
Events
National income - 4,056 million
Law
Explosives Act
Colonial Prisoners Removal Act (British statute) Naval Discipline Act (British statute) Criminal Lunatics Act (British statute) Indian Marine Service Act (British statute)
Births
27 July - Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 23 October 1951) March – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (d.1960). 7 November – Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian (d.1967). 22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (d.1953).
Deaths
12 December – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (b.1798).