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- 4 March - Toru DuttToru DuttToru Dutt was an Indian poetess who wrote in English and French.-Childhood:Toru Dutt was the youngest girl of Govin Chunder Dutt, a retired Indian Officer. She was born on the fourth of March 1856...
, poet (d.18771877 in IndiaEvents in the year 1877 in India.-Events:*Queen Victoria is made the Empress of India. This led to great celebrations in Darbars in India while millions of Indians perished in the famine that was going on then.-Births:...
). - 14 June - Ahmed Rida KhanAhmed Rida KhanAhmed Raza Khan Fazil-e-Barelvi was a Sunni Islamic scholar and sufi, whose works influenced the Barelvi movement of South Asia. Raza Khan wrote on numerous topics, including law, religion, philosophy and the sciences...
, Sunni Muslim scholar and founder of BarelwiBarelwiBarelvi is a term used for the movement of Sufi , Sunni Islam originating in the Indian subcontinent.The Movement is known as Ahle Sunnat movement to its followers....
school of thought (d.19211921 in IndiaEvents in the year 1921 in India.-Events:*23 December – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.*The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation...
). - 23 July - Bal Gangadhar TilakBal Gangadhar TilakLokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...
, nationalist, social reformer and independence fighter (d.19201920 in India-Events:*Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh in 1875, becomes Aligarh Muslim University.-January to June:*16 February - I. S...
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