Events in the year 1900 in India.

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

• National income - ₹7,080 million
• India's first participation in the summer Olympics

• Prisoners Act^[1]

• 12 July – Chhabi Biswas, actor (died 1962).
• 2 October – Mahendra Lal Wadhwa, freedom fighter (died 1988).
• 29 December – Deenanath Mangeshkar, actor, musician and singer (died 1942).

• Kavi Kalapi, poet (born 1874).