Events in the year 1883 in India.
Incumbents
Empress of India – Queen Victoria
Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
Events
National income – 4,213 million
15 September – Bombay Natural History Society founded
The Calcutta International Exhibition world's fair was held from the end of 1883 to March 1884
Law
9 February – Viceroy Lord Ripon's partial reversal of the Ilbert Bill (1883), a legislative measure that had proposed putting Indian judges in the Bengal Presidency on equal footing with British ones, that transformed the discontent into political action. Land Improvement Loans Act
Births
Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar, Marathi writer (d. 1964).
Deaths
17 February – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b.1845).