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Events in the year 1851 in India.

Incumbents[edit]

• 
  James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India, 1848 to 1856


• Vyankatrao I Raje Ghorpade, Raja of Mudhol State, 20 February 1818-December 1854


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  Muhammad Said Khan, Nawab of Rampur from 1840 to 1855, died on 1 April


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  Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic, 1825-1855


• Chintaman Rao I "Appa Sahib", founder and Rao of Sangli State, 1782–15 July 1851


• Dhundi Rao Chintaman Rao "Tatya Sahib", Rao of Sangli State, 15 July 1851-12 December 1901


• Gumansinhji, Maharawal of Chhota Udaipur State, 1822-1851


• Jitsinhji, Maharawal of Chhota Udaipur State, 1851-1881


• Ram Baksh, Prime Minister of Hyderabad, September 1849–April 1851


• Ganesh Rao, April 1851–June 1851


• Ratan Singh, Maharajah of Bikaner State, 25 March 1828-7 August 1851


• Sardar Singh, Maharajah of Bikaner State, 7 August 1851–16 May 1872

Events[edit]

• The first experimental electric telegraph line, between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour, was opened for the British East India Company
  


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  Oriental Bank Corporation was chartered to allow competition with the East India Company's opium billing monopoly


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  Naga raided the East India Company from 1851-1865


• The first train in India had become operational on 22 December for localised hauling of canal construction material in Roorkee^[1]


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  British Indian Association, a pan-nationalist political group, was established on 31 October


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  Dadabhai Naoroji founded the Rahnumae Mazdayasne Sabha (Guides on the Mazdayasne Path) on 1 August


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  Mongnawng State gained independence from Hsenwi State
  


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  Murree was established in the Punjab
  


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  Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hyderabad was established as Apostolic Vicariate of Hyderabad from the Apostolic Vicariate of Madras


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  Holy Trinity Church, Bangalore was built


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  Government Museum, Chennai was established


• The British Parliament passed the Lunatics Removal (India) Act 1851 and Marriages, India Act 1851
  

Births[edit]

• 
  Mahmud al-Hasan, a Deobandi scholar who actively campaigned against Britain's rule in India, born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
  


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  Jaswant Singh of Bharatpur, ruled Bharatpur State, born in Deeg on 1 March


• 
  Henry George Impey Siddons, an Indian educationist, born in Indore
  


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  Harry Charles Purvis Bell, British civil servant and a commissioner in the Ceylon Civil Service
  


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  Henry Stephens Salt, British writer and social reformer, born on 20 September

Deaths[edit]

• 
  Ayya Vaikundar, also known as Historical Vaikundar, who effectively founded the Ayyavazhi religion, died on 3 June


• Chintaman Rao I "Appa Sahib", founder of Sangli State, died on 15 July 1851


• Ratan Singh, Maharajah of Bikaner State, died on 7 August 1851


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  John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, Anglo-Indian lawyer and a pioneer in promoting women's education, died on 12 August in Kolkata
  

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