Events in the year 1842 in India.
Incumbents
*The
Earl of Ellenborough, Governor-General, 1842-44.
Events
* 1st Afghan War, 1837-42.
Law
Births
*16 January –
Mahadev Govind Ranade, judge, author and reformer (died
1901
Events
January
* January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minist ...
).
Deaths
* Undated
**
William Francis Thompson, British India civil servant, magistrate and philologist
[University of Toronto, Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, online at: https://jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/author/details/thompson-william-francis/21590.]
References
India
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Years of the 19th century in India
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