1894 in India
Events in the year 1894 in India. Incumbents
 Empress of India – Queen Victoria
 Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
 Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (from 11 October)

Events
 National income - 4,869 million
Punjab National Bank was founded by Lala Lajpat Rai

Law
Prisons Act
Land Acquisition Act

Births
1 January – Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist (d.1974). 21 February – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist (d.1955). 25 February – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (d.1969). 10 April – Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman (d.1983). 20 May  Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam (d.1994). Full date unknown
A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (d.1965). Deaths

