1894 in India

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin

  Events

• Punjab National Bank was founded by Lala Lajpat Rai

  Births

• 1 January – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist.
• 21 February – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist.
• 25 February – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master.
• 10 April – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman.

  Full date unknown

• A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo.

  Deaths