1858 in India

Incumbents

• Charles Canning, Governor-General, afterwards Viceroy

  Events

• January – General Sir Hugh Rose begins the Central India campaign; Sir Colin Campbell begins the campaign to recapture Lucknow; trial of Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, from 27 January
• February – General Rose relieves Saugor; Campbell's Army of Oudh assembles on the Kanpur-Lucknow road to await Jang Bahadur's Gurkha army
• March – Lucknow is recaptured on 21 March; Central India campaign continues
• April – Battle of the Betwa; the city of Jhansi is stormed and captured ; Azamgarh recaptured; advance on Kalpi ; Campbell begins reconquest of Rohilkhand; Koer Singh leads a rising in Bihar; after his defeat he dies of his wounds
• May – Battle of Bareilly followed by its recapture; Battle of Kunch; recapture of Jagdispur; reoccupation of Kalpi; Battle of Mohamdi and end of resistance in Rohilkhand; rebels begin guerrilla war in the jungle; Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi outside Gwalior
• June – Gwalior army deserts to the rebels and Tatya Tope and the Rani of Jhansi seize Gwalior; General Rose marches from the Kalpi to Gwalior arriving on the 16th; next day the battle of Kotah-i-Serai and on the 19th the Battle of Gwalior; Gwalior fortress recaptured; during June guerrilla forces in Oudh, Bihar and along the Nepalese frontier are suppressed
• July to December – suppression of guerrilla forces except in Rajputana and Central India
• October to November – Bahadur Shah travels from Delhi into exile at Rangoon
• 1 November – the end of the British East India Company's rule in India is proclaimed

  Births

• 9 July – Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
• 7 November – Bipin Chandra Pal
• 30 November – Jagadish Chandra Bose, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist and science fiction writer.

  Deaths

• Rani of Jhansi Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi State