Events in the year 1862 in India.
Incumbents Charles Canning, Viceroy James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Viceroy (from 21 March)
Events 2 July – Calcutta High Court is established under the High Courts Act, 1861. Fort George in Bombay (now Mumbai) is destroyed
Law Indian Stock Transfer Act (British statute) Habeas Corpus Act (British statute) Fine Arts Copyright Act (British statute)
Births Binodini Dasi, actress and writer (died 1941).
Deaths 7 November – Bahadur Shah II, the last Mughal emperor, dies in captivity in Rangoon, Burma
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