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).