1865 in India

Incumbents

• Sir John Lawrence, Governor-General of India, 12 January 1864 – 12 January 1869
• Colonel Edmund Haythorne, Adjutant-General of India, 22 June 1860–January 1866
• Ram Singh II, Maharao of Kota State, 20 July 1828 – 27 March 1866
• Sagramji II Devaji, Thakur of Gondal State, 1851-14 December 1869
• Bham Pratap Singh, Raja and Maharajah of Bijawar State, 23 November 1847 – 15 September 1899
• Shri Singh, Raja of Chamba State, 1844-1870
• Ranmalsinhji Amarsinhji, Raj Sahib of Dhrangadhra State, 9 April 1843 – 16 October 1869
• Madan Pal, Maharaja of Karauli State, 4 March 1854 – 16 August 1869
• Hiravajra Singh Deo, Maharajah of Patna, 1848-August 1866
• Cecil Beadon, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, 1862-1866
• Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V, Nizam of Hyderabad, 16 May 1857 – 26 February 1869
• Charles Pelly, revenue member of the Madras Legislative Council, 1862-1866

  Events

• British India defeated Bhutan, annexing parts of the Assam Duars, Bengal Duars, and Dewangiri (Western Duars
• The British government passed the Government of India Act 1865, India Office Site and Approaches Act 1865, and the Indian High Courts Act 1865
• Indian Forest Acts, 1865 and 1878 extended the British Colonial claims over forests in India.
• Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Mumbai based business conglomerate, was founded
• Shergotty meteorite fell at Sherghati, Gaya, Bihar, India
• P&O Bank purchased Allahabad Bank
• Bombay Castle wall was demolished

  Births

• Charles Astley Fowler, Divisional Commander during the Third Afghan War in 1919, born on 9 November
• William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front in World War I, born on 13 September in Khadki
• Lucy Deane Streatfeild, civil servant, a social worker, and one of the first female factory inspectors in the United Kingdom; she was one of the first to raise concerns about the health risks arising from exposure to asbestos, born on 31 July in Madras
• Edward Allan Wood, Commandant of the Auxiliary Division during the Irish War of Independence, born on 6 May
• Lala Lajpat Rai, leader in the Indian Independence movement, born on 28 January in Dhudike, Punjab
• Bessie Sinclair Speechly, a Speechly, born on 31 August in Cottayam, India

  Deaths

• Alexander Kinloch Forbes, scholar of the Gujarati language and a colonial administrator in British India, died in Pune