Events in the year 1898 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India Queen Victoria

Events

Births

• 19 January Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, writer (died 1976).
• 25 November Debaki Bose, film director, writer and actor (died 1971).
• 2 December Indra Lal Roy, World War I flying ace, killed in action (died 1918).

Deaths