1850 in India

Events in the year 1850 in India.

Events

 * National income - ₹5,910 million
 * The ceremony of turning the first sod for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway from Mumbai to Kalyan was performed by J. P. Willoughby at a place near Sion.

Law

 * Judicial Officers Protection Act
 * Piracy Act (British statute)

Births

 * 9 September – Bharatendu Harishchandra, writer and poet (died 1882).