27 June in Hindu history
27 June 183827 June 1839
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay born
The novelist who wrote Vande Mataram is born at Kanthalpara near Naihati in Bengal.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh dies at Lahore
The Lion of Punjab dies after forty years of rule. Within a decade of quarrels among his heirs, the Sikh empire falls to the British.