1861 in India

Incumbents

• Charles Canning, Viceroy

  Events

• Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded.
• The Delhi Department of Police is founded.

  Births

• 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer.
• 24 September: Bhikaiji Cama, independence campaigner.
• Date unknown: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi.