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List of events
Events in the year 1854 in India .
Incumbents
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie ,
Governor-General of India , 1848 to 1856
Vyankatrao I Raje Ghorpade, Raja of
Mudhol State , 20 February 1818-December 1854
Balwantrao Raje Ghorpade, Raja of Mudhol State, December 1854-27 March 1862
Thakur Sahib Akherajji IV Bhavsimhji, Rajput of
Bhavnagar State , 1852–1854
Thakur Sahib Jashwantsimhji Bhavsimhji, Rajput of Bhavnagar State, 1854–11 April 1870
Muhammad Said Khan ,
Nawab of Rampur from 1840 to 1855, died on 1 April
Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan , Nawab of the Carnatic, 1825-1855
Events
March– The
British Raj annexed
Jhansi , Lakshmibai was given a pension of ₹ 60,000 and ordered to leave the palace and the fort.
The
British Raj annexed
Jhansi ,
Nagpur , and
Oudh and began annexing
Udaipur State, Chhattisgarh
Nagpur became the administrative division of
Chota Nagpur Division
Bhopal Agency was absorbed into the
Central India Agency
The British medal first issued the
India General Service Medal (1854) to exceptional British and Indian soldiers
Calcutta
Survey first issued
Inverted Head 4 Annas
postage stamps
Dalhousie, India , a hill station in
Himachal Pradesh , was established by the
British Empire 's government in India as a summer retreat for its troops and officials
Howrah Junction railway station was opened
The first train ran on
Eastern Railway zone between
Howrah and
Hooghly on 15 August
The Dalhousie administration formally dissolved
Fort William College
[1]
The
East India Company formed the
3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry which later helped suppress the
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Woodstock School , a Christian, international, co-educational, residential school located in
Landour , a small
hill station contiguous with the town of
Mussoorie ,
Uttarakhand , was established
Government College of Art & Craft , one of the oldest art colleges in India, was established on 16 August at Garanhata,
Chitpur
Government Arts College, Kumbakonam was established on 19 October in
Kumbakonam in
Tamil Nadu
Happy Valley Tea Estate , a
tea garden in
Darjeeling district in the
Indian state of
West Bengal , was established
Khana railway station was established
The portion of the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway from Tannah to
Callian was opened on May 1
Dadabhai Naoroji founded a
Gujarati fortnightly publication, the
Rast Goftar ('The Truth Teller'), to clarify Zoroastrian concepts and promote Parsi social reforms
[2]
Alexander Cunningham , a British army engineer with the
Bengal Engineer Group , published LADĀK: Physical, Statistical, and Historical with Notices of the Surrounding Countries
[3]
Nathan Brown , an American missionary, published খ্রীষ্টৰ বিবৰণ আৰু শুভ বাৰ্তা, Jesus Christ and his Holy Messages
William Prinsep sold
Belvedere Estate to the East India Company
Law
Births
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah , anti-British Indian
revolutionary with sympathy for the
Pan-Islamic movement , born on 7 July at Itwra Mohalla,
Bhopal in
Madhya Pradesh
John Frederick McCrea , a South African recipient of the
Victoria Cross , born on 2 April 1854 in
Madras
Matilda Smith , botanical artist whose work appeared in
Curtis's Botanical Magazine for over forty years
[4]
Isabel Cooper-Oakley , a prominent
Theosophist and author, born on 31 January in
Amritsar
Arthur Anthony Macdonell , a noted
Sanskrit scholar, born on 11 May in
Muzaffarpur
Richmond Ritchie , a British civil servant, born in Calcutta
Vasudevanand Saraswati , Saint who is regarded as an incarnation of Lord
Dattatreya , born on 13 August in
Sindhudurg ,
Maharashtra ,
India
Deaths
References