Events in the year 1894 in India.

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria^[1]
• Viceroy of India – Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
• Viceroy of India – Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (from 11 October)

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

• Prisons Act^[2]
• Land Acquisition Act

• 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).
• 3 December – Deiva Zivarattinam, politician (d. 1975)